GradRight Inc. Looking For Assistant Product Manager at Gurugram, Haryana, Full Time

Assistant Product Manager

About GradRight

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. With a strong presence in the U.S. and subsidiaries in India and commencement of UK operations, GradRight is well-poised for global expansion, having raised a Series A round of investments. GradRight’s 200+ team members across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Kolkata and the US are led by alumni of IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, BITS Pilani, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience and building products – if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As an APM, you’ll own the execution of various products at GradRight. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
3. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
4. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
5. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
6. Own the design engineering teams hand-off, release timelines and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years experience as a product owner at a startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Additional resources:

1. Our team – https://gradright.com/about-us
2. Customer testimonials – https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
3. GradRight on social media – LinkedIn, Instagram