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Senior Product Manager JD

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Location: Hyderabad/Bengaluru

About Keka

Imagine David fighting many Goliaths. Keka has been the bootstrapped David that beat the funded Goliaths with a strong product and zero marketing spend. Keka is now #1 in its segment and India's fastest-growing HR Tech platform. We are a product-led growth inspiration for the industry.

We solve people problems at work!

We are on a mission to transform workplaces where employees come to work inspired, feel safe, share a common purpose with peers and leaders, do their best work, and go home fulfilled.

The traits we look for in you

Skills can be learnt and unlearnt any time. But the attitude you bring to the table makes all the difference and gives purpose to those skills. That’s what matters to us most.

Curiosity that’s never quenched

A curious person asks the most powerful questions in the world: “Why?” They are self learners and aren’t satisfied with what people tell them. A curious mind is keen on knowing the problem to its core. They stay awake at night wondering what they’re missing and love the process of discovery. A trait every PM need to possess.

Good IQ. And Great EQ Great

PMs know how to build relationships and not just products. They are empathetic towards everyone (including customers and team). They also know their own strength and weaknesses and leave no stone unturned to grow their own skills.

Impatient to make an impact

You are hungry to make a dent in the universe. You can't wait to solve problems and have a hustler mindset for getting things done in the best possible manner. Fail fast is your mantra for success.

Intellectual Horsepower

Building a a simple to use HR platform is pretty complex. People failed at it for decades. Understanding its nuances, making quick correlations and coming up with new ideas and solutions requires a sharp acute mind and a penchant for seeking knowledge.

Fun to hang around

Bribe with a glass of beer and everything works. I know, I know. What about those other 60% that don’t drink? You must be an adept story teller that can connect with any personality and speak on any topic. You get it.

Extremely design centric

We don’t expect you to create beautiful visual design, but we do expect that you have experience creating simple and usable interactions. This is a trait only acquired by doing and not reading. Experience creating usable interactions is a must. selected.

Role

The word ‘Product Manager’ is most abused word on the earth right now! Every company has it’s own definition of a PM role. At Keka we are building an ecosystem of Hire to Retire and run it like a group of individual startups.

Senior Product Managers are expected to lead 1 or 2 products end to end and own the vision of and growth of the products. Here are the expectations:

• Product Evangelist: Serve as the product evangelist both internally and externally, communicating product benefits and value propositions to stakeholders, customers, and partners.
• Customer Obsessed: Build a deep understanding of customer needs and pain points, and ensure these insights are prioritized and incorporated in the product
• Market expert: HR tech is a cluttered market. You need to understand the competitive landscape in detail and gather customer feedback to identify market opportunities and trends to grow your product
• Build product vision and roadmap: You should have a sharp vision for the product and how to grow it 5x or 10x. Be able to align all stakeholders to this vision and deliver roadmaps every quarter to move towards this vision
• Deliver Impacts: We want you to be highly metric driven and be able to articulate what and why we are building, measure the impacts and ensure you build for impact

Qualifications

• Must have 8+ years of experience in product management, preferably SaaS products
• Must have 0-1 start up experience. Founding experience preferred
• Must be data driven with clear impacts
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Strong customer focus with a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities