Opportunity and Role Description

About the company:
At Kraftshala, we believe that higher education in India and across the globe lacks accountability to the students they are meant to serve, in large part because the people working in the system aren’t provided meaningful incentives to improve career outcomes for students. It’s also what keeps the best industry practitioners from getting involved in training, perpetuating a culture of mediocrity.

We believe that education programs must drive tangible career outcomes for students, in the absence of which students shouldn’t have to bear the burden of paying fees.

We believe that education becomes fruitful, and a lot more fun, when you get kickass practitioners, the real experts, to train emerging talent.

Over the last 5 years, S&M professionals from world’s top consumer companies (like Unilever, P&G, Nestlé, Facebook, Amazon, Yum! Brands, etc) as well as students studying in the best business schools of the country (major IIMs, ISB, FMS, XLRI, SP Jain, IIFT, etc.) have found value in our programs.

We are now building pay-after-placement programs, growing 5X year-on-year, and are gunning to help a million students launch their careers in marketing, sales and more, transforming the higher education ecosystem.

The problem we are solving is complex but critical to solve. We’d love to meet you if you’d like to be a part of this solution.

Welcome to the ride.

Funding:
Kraftshala is backed by number of eminent investors, including

Phanindra Sama, co-founder at Redbus and an early investor in unicorns like Unacademy and Innovacer

Amit Kumar Agarwal, Saurabh Garg and Akhil Gupta, co-founders at Nobroker.com (India’s first realty startup unicorn)

Sujayathi Ali, Co-founder at ShopUp and Voonik

Doreswamy Nandkishore (Former Fortune 100 CEO, Head of Asia, Oceania, Africa for Nestlé S.A. and Professor, ISB)

Pallav Jain and Sarfaraz Khimani (co-CEOs of Performics, India’s largest SEO/ performance marketing agencies)

What do we value (the Kraftshala Kode):
Like all good companies, we value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration. Our team’s distinctiveness comes from the following:

We seek a user centric mindset so that we can Scale with Soul. People who start with the user and work backward, and take every opportunity to add value, even if they have to go well beyond, fit right in.

We believe speed matters enormously in business. We value people who have a bias for action and are willing to take calculated risks in the face of uncertainty.

We are a team of learners who like to observe, read, reflect and seek feedback to be better today than we were yesterday.

We value problem solving skills. We look at problems objectively, solve for root causes, make decisions for long term good instead of short term gain, and don’t let processes get in the way of value addition.

We admire people with ambition & courage to take on large goals. We are seeking to build a team of self-starters who demonstrate high ownership.

We aim for consistency and reliability and expect the same from others. Predictability just makes everyone’s life a lot smoother.

We like people who are real, open and direct in communication, while still being empathetic.

We are practical optimists. Our team strongly believes in a better future and takes joy and pride in the fact that we are playing our part to make that future a reality.

What is the recruitment process:
As a small team (~50 folks), it’s imperative that we get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation with us will last about 40-75 minutes, except the first call which is a short one to understand expectations. Typically the whole process takes between 10 – 20 business days depending on your and our schedules. The process will occur over telephonic/zoom calls, so you don’t need to worry about travel.

Once we receive your application, these steps will follow:
Skill Assessment Task: This will be a task that assesses you on some of the core skills you’ll need to succeed in this role.

Technical conversation: This will be a telephonic call with a senior member of the team wherein you can expect to be evaluated on your functional skills and other competencies needed for the job, mentioned below.

Culture fit conversation: A telephonic conversation with our Founder/CEO to ensure that there is a fit with the Kraftshala Kode.

Extending an offer: If all goes well, we will extend an offer mentioning the relevant details.

Product Manager, Tech Team – Role Description

What you will be doing:
We operate a number of consumer products across web and mobile that are used by thousands of India’s high potential professionals to learn, get mentored from business leaders and transform their careers. These products are built on React.js and Redux in the front-end and PHP and Node.js with MongoDB and MySQL in the back-end.

Your goal will be to take these products to the next level of user experience by:

Manage the entire product lifecycle starting from conceptualization, creation of product roadmap & strategy, incorporation of best practices, managing product launches & continuous improvements.

Dissect and understand core user flow, learning experience, and engagement mechanics as well as the metrics to which they are tied

Understand and grasp project requirements, write specs and effectively communicate the same to dev teams and other stakeholder teams. Work with them to figure the most elegant solutions.

Create product requirement documents (PRDs) with wireframes, clear use cases and test cases

Leverage analytics data and user feedback to identify & resolve pain points and continuously improve learning and experience.

Analyze feature performance & device solvable methods /fixes by working with the developer team.

Prioritize features, requests, asks from various teams, keeping in mind user impact, business impact & dev costs

Be Responsible for driving key conversion and experience metrics.

Must Haves:
2-4 years of strong and relevant experience in technical product management role.

2-4 years of strong and relevant experience in any one of the following:

Designing or Development (coding) of product from scratch

Quality Assurance of technical product (including unit and integration testing

An analytical, data driven mindset to write great specs with minimal edits & take feedback from multiple perspectives but apply logic & fair hypothesis

Ability to organize, manage, and prioritize tasks. Prior experience working with engineering through complete technology product lifecycle..

High ownership and responsibility to independently manage projects

Great communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with various stakeholders

Sharp eye for detail

Learning agility to ride a fast growth curve

Must be an innovative, strategic thinker and must be able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment with changing priorities

Location:
We are a remote work organization.