Associate Product Manager

What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Product Execution & Delivery
• Feature Ownership: Support a Product Manager in defining, prioritizing, and executing features for your designated product area. This may involve optimizing a lending funnel stage, launching an improvement to the credit tracker, or deploying a new user communication flow.
• Documentation: Write clear, concise, and detailed Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and user stories with acceptance criteria for the engineering team.
• Agile Management: Manage the product backlog, participate actively in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, and ensure timely delivery of features with high quality.
• Data Analysis & User Discovery
• Quantitative Analysis: Monitor core product KPIs (e.g., funnel drop-offs, install-to-disbursal success rate, daily active users) using analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, SQL, Google Analytics/internal tools). Translate data into actionable insights for product iteration.
• Qualitative Research: Conduct user interviews, analyze customer feedback, and perform A/B tests to understand pain points and validate solutions.
• Competitive Intelligence: Track the competitive landscape, industry trends, and new regulatory changes in the FinTech space to identify product gaps and opportunities.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Coordination: Serve as the product evangelist and point of contact for Engineering, UI/UX Design, Risk/Credit, Operations, and Marketing teams.
• Risk & Compliance: Work closely with Risk and Legal teams to ensure all product features, particularly related to loan processes, KYC/AML, and customer data, are compliant with RBI guidelines and internal security standards.
• Go-to-Market: Assist in preparing launch materials, training internal teams (Sales/Support), and communicating new feature releases to stakeholders.
  

What You'll Bring (Required Qualifications)

• Experience: 1-3 years of professional experience in a quantitative, analytical, or product-related role (e.g., Business Analyst, Associate PM, Product Analyst, or an Engineering background with an interest in Product).
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or a related quantitative field from a reputed institution.
• Analytical Prowess: Proficiency in data manipulation and analysis using SQL and Excel. Must be comfortable defining metrics and interpreting data to make product decisions.
• Technical Fluency: A solid understanding of how digital products (mobile apps/APIs) are built and scaled. Ability to effectively communicate technical requirements to engineers.
• Problem-Solving: Strong critical thinking skills with a demonstrated ability to break down complex problems in a structured manner.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate the product vision, requirements, and performance clearly to diverse internal and external stakeholders.
  

Bonus Points (Preferred Skills)

• Prior experience in a FinTech, Lending, or Payments domain.
• Direct experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira/Confluence.
• Familiarity with UX design principles and tools (e.g., Figma) to quickly mock up user flows or analyze wireframes.
• Exposure to underwriting models or credit/risk systems.