Product Manager

NewsHunt; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Newshunt is seeking an experienced Product Manager to drive the product and integration roadmap for a leading vernacular content platform. You will work on market sizing, content discovery channels, and cross-functional collaboration with development and QA teams to deliver high-impact features.

Ideal candidates have 4–6 years in consumer software, strong product development knowledge, and proven ability to manage large teams and ships mobile products.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in consumer software or horizontal sites.
• Strong familiarity with product development, user flows and UI.
• Experience with rapid delivery environments.
• Led teams of 8+ members.
• Proven track record of marketing materials.
• Managed all phases of product development lifecycle.
• Expertise with web/mobile analytic tools.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Having shipped a consumer mobile product is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Drive product and integration roadmap, including market segmentation and sizing.
• Define distribution channels for content discovery and mobile integrations.
• Manage requirement definition and feature identification for future initiatives.
• Engage with development and QA teams to realize product goals.
• Coordinate resources to ship high-impact products and ensure cross-team communication.
• Support release processes and resolve production issues quickly.
• Measure success using internal tools and Google Analytics.

Skills

Product development

User flows

UI experience

Analytics tools

Team leadership

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Tools

Google Analytics

Job description

Newshunt is India’s largest mobile news platform that is currently installed and used by over 30 million people worldwide. We are looking for an experienced, passionate and talented Product Manager to help us drive our vision for being the largest provider of vernacular content in the world.

Responsibilities

Drive product and integration roadmap, including market segmentation and sizing, market and competitive analysis, technology trends to achieve product line goals.

Define appropriate distribution channels for content discovery including timeline, email, logged out experiences and mobile integrations

Manage product requirement definition and feature identification for future initiatives, including documentation of prioritized feature sets and use cases.

Engage with development and QA teams at the appropriate times to realize the goals of the product.

Be a driving force in assembling the resources necessary to ship high-impact products and features, and facilitate communication throughout the development process inside NewsHunt

Work with the release process and support teams to insure that the product is released successfully and any issues in production are resolved quickly.

Measure and analyze success of product or feature using internal tools as well as tools like Google Analytics.

Requirements

4 to 6 years of experience working in for consumer software companies or horizontal sites like Yahoo, Rediff etc.

Strong familiarity with product development, user flows and UI experience a plus.

Experience working with teams in rapid delivery environments.

Should have worked on projects involving teams of more than 8 people.

Proven track record of building creative and effective marketing materials.

Proven ability to successfully manage all phases of the product development lifecycle.

Expertise with web/mobile analytic tools.

Excellent organizational, statistical, strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, written and oral presentation and communication skills.

Having worked on or shipped a consumer mobile product is ideal.