Principal Product Manager (Platforms)

About Us
ACKO is Indias first and only fully-digital Insurtech (product) company to have taken insurance by storm. You might have seen our cool ads or are already a customer and we hope you have noticed how we are rewriting the rules of the insurance game constantly and persistently.
Based out of Bangalore, we are solving for the Indian market. But we are a part of a global wave of insurtech startups such as ZhongAn in China , Oscar, Lemonade, Metromile in the US, that are known to succeed owing to their business models and technology.
We are a unicorn backed by a slate of marquee investors like Binny Bansal, Amazon, Ascent capital, Accel, SAIF, Catamaran, General Atlantic and Multiples. In only four years since our inception and operations, our products have reached 75M unique users. We have partnered with some of the biggest names of the digital ecosystem such as Amazon, Ola, RedBus, Oyo, Lendingkart, ZestMoney, GOMMT group etc.
At ACKO, job roles are focused at impact and were here to transform the way the industry operates. Innovation drives us and our products, and we are poised to disrupt insurance, powered by our pioneering products. We have changed the landscape of this age old sector in a growing economy like India and have miles to go from here.
After having crossed the $1B valuation mark, our eyes set on even bigger milestones. If you think were just about growth and numbers, employee wellbeing lies at the core of all our programs and policies. We are a regular Great Place to Work winner and consistently feature on Linkedins list of top startups. Currently 1000 strong, we are hiring across all functions.
About The Role
As a Principal Product Manager, you will envision and build durable platforms that enable product experiences to deliver great customer experience and business value for Acko .
What You&aposll Do

• Hold the product lever for the group and collaborate with engineering and business teams to suggest, lead and implement the right platforms and toolset. Analyze and look at engineered solutions or off-the-shelf integrations.
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  Manage the push-pulls of business stakeholders to arrive at the right solution based on the context, priority. Arrive and manage the product metrics for platform products.
• Work with design, finance, data science, engineering, and other PM partners to understand their needs, pain points, and use cases and integrate them appropriately into the product requirements document.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to walk them through the product features you want to build and deliver them.
• Monitor analytics dashboard to check product performance and take appropriate actions to fix issues.
  

What You&aposll Need

• Minimum 9+ years of experience delivering successful, innovative customer-facing products/enterprise internal applications/experience of past experience delivering CX products
• Thoughtful approach to leadership and upward / downward communications
• Ability to lead a team to strong product decisions, especially using data
• You are able to write clear specifications and contribute meaningfully to specifications for major features. Your specs define a clear, meaningful, and achievable goal across various devices, and platforms targeted for your feature. Your specs describe functionality in sufficient detail for stakeholders to understand the feature and for engineers to build the feature.
• You are able to develop effective working relationships with your engineering team, finance teams, and other stakeholders and can effectively articulate the goals and business justification for your current project.

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• You can triage and prioritize the severity of bugs and make recommendations for whether something is a launch blocker or not.
• You have a basic understanding of general analytics best practices and internal company tools.
• You understand the benefits and trade-offs of using various user feedback channels including surveys, focus groups, usability tests, customer support analysis, app reviews, and other forms of research. Working with your manager, you are able to distill user feedback into an actionable understanding of user sentiment for your product area.
• Working with the design team, you are able to create a UI that is high-quality, meets the project & business requirements, and abides by the design and style standards of the company. You are also able to create wireframes both on your own and in coordination with the design team.
• You can effectively identify teams and other stakeholders directly impacted by your current project, gather their feedback, and work with your manager to appropriately integrate that feedback.
• You have a true passion for Company&aposs mission, our products, and the company&aposs digital-first technology/operations nature.