Bangalore
Posted 1 month ago
Organization:
Our client is one of the leading microfinance institution in India.
Job Summary:
This position will be responsible to lead all innovation projects and initiatives, working closely with multiple stakeholders both internal & external to ensure timely execution.
Reporting To: Head – Strategy, Innovation & Analytics
Broad Roles and Responsibilities:
- Innovation:
- Understanding business needs, emerging trends, changes happening in the ecosystem/industry, competitive analysis to help build a healthy pipeline of Innovation projects.
- Explore, evaluate, and propose solutions on Innovation ideas, Perform PoC and scale up based on business/mgmt. guidance.
- Apply design thinking principles to innovation projects to ensure relevant customer-oriented solutions are tested.
- Ensuring implementation of project milestones/goals while adhering to approved budget, timelines, and success criteria.
- Work on strategic projects as per guidance from management to deliver on business objectives.
- Product Management:
- Develop and maintain product roadmap for relevant products by constantly understanding customer needs and behaviour through insights from business and research teams.
- Manage and execute product lifecycle for all launches from user need identification, kickoff, KPI definition, design and development.
- Work closely with technology, business, operations, risk and other cross-functional partners both internal and external to design, build, and deploy products/features.
- Ensure regular reporting and feedback process among stakeholders.
- Ensure process adherence, risk mitigation and compliance as per guidelines.
Expected Skills: Creative thinking, Product/Project management, User Experience, Analytical thinking, Good Collaboration & Communication skills.
Requirements:
- Postgraduate from reputed university, preferably MBA
- 6+ years of overall experience with at least 3 years of Product management or experience in the Innovation space
- Exposure to Design thinking would be a significant plus.