Job Description
The Upstox Story:
Upstox is one of India's leading Fin-Tech companies with a mission to simplify trading amp; investing to make it easily accessible to the masses. We aim to enable everyone, from new investors to seasoned traders, to invest across multiple categories with our state-of-the-art trade amp; investment platform and commission-free pricing. We offer numerous asset categories to invest in, like Stocks, IPOs, Mutual Funds, and more.
By focusing on our customers’ needs and equipping them with personalized yet powerful tools, we witnessed a steep growth of 800% in our customer base from 25 Thousand in 2017 to 2 Lakh in 2019. With 1500% growth in 2020, currently, over 11 million customers trust us with their investment decisions, thus setting us on the course to become an industry-leader in the country.
Our mission is simple - to break down the complexities of investing and make it more effortless, accessible, affordable, and easy for the masses to adopt. This key principle when infused with intuitive design and leading-edge technology will help us empower every Indian to take control of their investments.
RKSV Securities was founded by Ravi Kumar and Shrinivas Viswanath in 2009 and was soon graced by Kavitha Subramanian as the third co-founder in 2016. Backed by Ratan Tata, Upstox had raised $4 million in Series A funding in early 2016 that was led by Kalaari Capital. The Series B funding round scaled multifold and witnessed an investment of $25 million by US-based investment firm - Tiger Global Management in September 2019.We have a team of highly skilled technology and finance professionals, and are currently looking for highly motivated field experts to be part of our high-energy team.
As a PM-II, the following will be the scope of expectations that lies on you.
Responsibilities:Insight Driven:-Customer focused. Talks to customers using their area of product, always looking for deeper insight.-Partners effectively with Researchers, helping to define the problems we should be seeking to understand and validate decision-making-Uses data insights to evaluate and inform the story they tell-Understands key or similar usage metrics for all areas of their product/use case and uses that data to inform decision-making.-Proactively identifies metrics to track and measure customer and business benefits for Intermissions.-Aware of what's happening with our competitors and within our industry for their use case area.Strategy:-Responsible for shaping product area strategy with close support from a manager.-Owner of the team's roadmap. Develops a point of view based on our roadmap inputs.-Creates a clear amp; logical rationale that's in line with product area strategy and is easy to consume.-Creates alignment within the team and with critical stakeholders (cross-functional partners amp; manager) Gets team buy-in on strategy amp; roadmap rationale.Execution:-Demonstrates clarity when articulating the problem and aligning the team to the problem.-Actively contributes to the exploration of multiple solutions to the problem statement.-Consistently runs efficient and effective betas. Gets teams to quickly adapt to results, both quant and qual.-Collaborates with PMM to define the Interstory, launch plans, pricing, and packaging approachDriving Outcomes:-Ensures product quality is high, with few bugs and issues. Contributes to QA of product features.-Can demonstrate meaningful impact on customers and our business.Leadership Behaviours:-Communicates with the team, product leadership, and key stakeholders frequently and effectively.-Collaborates effectively with team, peers and stakeholders. Is warm and empathetic and communicates openly.-Consistent and reliable ownership of the problem through to the solution within and across teams, peers, and partners-Decisive and assertive. Creates clear escalation paths to resolve issues within the team and validate meaningful decisions quickly.
Requirements:Engineering and/or Management degree from a premier institute4+ years of overall experience in Product Management, Engineering or Consulting.2+ years of experience in the fintech domain (Good to have)Experience in the B2C segment.Good people management skills.Ability to conceptualise, manage and prioritise tasks.Communicate effectively amp; cross-functionally with other teams.Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication
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