Product Strategy Manager (CarTrade Mumbai)

Position: Product Strategy Manager

Location: Mumbai

Company- CarTrade Tech

Role Overview

The Manager – Product Strategy will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing strategic initiatives, product innovations not only be limited to finance , might work on other strategy initiatives from corporate teams within CarTrade Labs. This role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, strong business acumen, and a passion for leveraging technology to solve complex financial and customer challenges

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Who we are looking for

• 3–7 years of experience in Product Strategy, Business Strategy, Chief of Staff, Product Management, Founders Office, Consulting, Venture Building, Startup Operations, or related roles.
• Strong customer-centric mindset with experience in customer research and problem discovery.
• Demonstrated experience building products, businesses, or strategic initiatives from concept to execution.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive insights from data and translate them into business actions.
• Experience working in startups, innovation teams, incubators, consulting firms, or high-growth environments.
• Familiarity with AI, Generative AI, automation tools, analytics platforms, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• MBA from a reputed institution preferred.

What Youll Do

Product & Business Strategy

• Identify new growth opportunities, emerging trends, and business models across digital, automotive, mobility, commerce, and financial ecosystems.
• Conduct market research, competitor benchmarking, customer discovery, and ecosystem analysis to inform strategic decisions.
• Build business cases, evaluate opportunity size, and recommend growth initiatives.
• Define product vision, customer journeys, and strategic roadmaps for new initiatives.

Customer Discovery & Product Development

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to understand customer pain points and unmet
• needs.
• Design and validate customer journeys, user experiences, and value propositions.
• Translate insights into product concepts, MVPs, and scalable solutions.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Analytics teams to drive execution.

Innovation & AI Transformation

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, Generative AI, automation, and analytics to improve customer experiences and business efficiency.
• Partner with business and technology teams to experiment, prototype, and launch AI-enabled solutions.
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies across strategic initiatives.

Growth & Business Building

• Support new business launches and incubation initiatives from concept to scale.
• Develop GTM strategies, growth experiments, and monetization opportunities.
• Track business performance, customer engagement, and growth metrics to optimize out
• comes.

Cross-functional Leadership

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Data Science, and Leadership teams.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders and ensure timely execution of strategic initiatives.
• Present recommendations, insights, and business cases to senior leadership.