Assistant Product Manager|(06 months -3 yrs)|Onsite

Location: Surat (Gujarat), India

Job Type: Full-Time, Onsite

Experience Level: 6 months to 3 Years

About Us

GEMGEM

The Assistant Product Manager will play a pivotal role in executing and enhancing our product vision across e-commerce and marketplace platforms. This position demands strong analytical thinking, technical understanding, and cross-functional coordination. The ideal candidate combines curiosity for products and technology with hands-on experience, workflow design, system flows (backend to frontend), and the unique challenges of e-commerce and marketplaces. As an APM, you will actively liaise between tech, product, operations, and marketing teams to deliver seamless products and maintain alignment across organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Understanding & Ownership

• Develop deep knowledge of platform functionality, user journeys, and pain points. Contribute ideas to strengthen product effectiveness.

• Workflow Expertise

• Understand orchestrate workflow logic, and ensure smooth integration between backend and frontend systems.

• Ecommerce & Marketplace Acumen

• Apply domain knowledge to optimize features/processes for buyers, sellers, and internal stakeholders specific to e-commerce/marketplace environments.

• Cross-Functional Coordination

• Serve as the go-to liaison between engineering, operations, product, and marketing. Ensure clear communication and smooth handoffs across departments.

• Proactive Execution

• Take initiative in spotting gaps, launching projects, and improving processes. Demonstrate a can-do attitude and a bias for action across all tasks.

• Requirement Analysis & Documentation

• Collect, analyze, and document business requirements. Translate functional needs into detailed product specifications and user stories.

• Prototype & MVP (Good to Have)

• Ability to conceptualize and, where possible, create wireframes/prototypes to test ideas quickly (using tools like Figma, Sketch, Miro, etc.).

Mandatory Skills & Experience:

• Product Acumen

• Strong fundamental understanding of product lifecycles, feature prioritization, and usability.

• System Flow Comprehension

• Clear insights into backend-frontend interactions and technical points of integration.

• Communication & Coordination

• Excellent stakeholder management skills: able to communicate with diverse teams and synthesize viewpoints.

• Proactivity

• Self-motivated, ownership-driven, and ready to take initiative without waiting for direction.

• (ideal) Experience in Ecommerce/Marketplace

• Understanding of how ecommerce/marketplace platforms operate from both the user and business perspectives.

Education & Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Management, or equivalent experience.
• Previous internship or work experience in product, technology, or ecommerce companies is a plus.

What Success Looks Like:

• Delivers detailed requirements and use cases that engineers and designers find actionable.
• Achieves smooth cross-team collaboration resulting in timely launches and rapid iteration.
• Consistently surfaces insights and issues before they become major obstacles.
• Champions a “user-first” mindset across product growth and optimisation projects.