Associate Product Manager

About Inkle:

About the team and this role:

Responsibilities:

• Product & Domain Understanding: Quickly develop a strong understanding of your product & domain, operational workflows, and pain points.
• Lead: lead a cross-functional team and be a relentless force of nature in cold-starting a new product or accelerating an existing product.
• Product Development: Prioritise & break down the features into workable chunks & then document workflows, design & engineering requirements.
• Technical Specifications: Work with engineers constantly to understand technical nuances and incorporate them into product development.
• Customer Interviews: Conduct customer interviews daily and synthesise/surface the pain points. Build features based on customer inputs & maintain customer communication wherever necessary.
• Product Analytics: With every feature pushed, incorporate necessary analytics and build & maintain funnels for the same.
• UI/UX Ownership: Work closely with designers across all phases from brainstorming to ideation to deployment.
• A/B Testing: Implement testing and quality control strategies.
• Automation: Identify and fill product gaps by automating administrative workflows, reducing manual effort, and improving overall operational efficiency.
• Adoption: Drive adoption of the product/features with the internal & external stakeholders (Can be internal teams, partners, customers, etc).
• Growth: Execute internal & external growth & outreach strategies to achieve the growth metrics for your product.
• Marketing & Product Launches: Work with the marketing team to execute marketing/launch strategies for your product.
  

Skills and Requirements:

• 1-3 years of work experience, ideally all in product management at a B2B SaaS company but not necessarily.
• Very high attention to detail and ability to analyse processes/data.
• Familiarity with product management softwares such as Jira, Linear etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams to drive results.
• Very high willingness to speak with customers and hold interviews daily.
• Experience in product marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management.
• Extreme proactiveness. This is the number one trait we’re looking for. We will not micromanage you - you must be a complete self-starter, and make yourself super busy and just take care of things without being asked.
• Very good with metrics and A/B testing.
• Working with lots of softwares - speed is of the essence, and you must be comfortable using AI tools to get even faster.
• Communication is key: you’ll need very strong English (written and spoken) and absolute willingness to overcommunicate without being asked.
  

Benefits that we’ll provide:

• Highly competitive salary: Inkle offers a competitive compensation package benchmarked to local norms in Bangalore and San Francisco.
• Stock option scheme - all Inkle employees receive generous stock options with very favourable terms.
• Health insurance - all Inkle employees are covered under Group Medical Insurance policy.
• Relocation allowance - Inkle provides a one-time expense allowance to cater for moving costs when you join the office in Bangalore.
• Inkle has a very generous leave policy. This includes 1 day of Period Leave per month for all female employees.
• Inkle employees are granted 10 work-from-home days (per year pro-rated). This is on top of their leave.
• A comfortable, fun and safe office environment in the heart of Bangalore with great transport links and eateries nearby.
• All employees receive Macbooks and external monitors as required.
  

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