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Product Management Sr. Product Manager (Mumbai, India)

We are a bunch of creative and technology-driven mavens that are on a mission to make mobile content and ads engaging. We pride ourselves on creating unique, compelling stories and telling them with an interactive style.

mCanvas is looking for an experienced Product Manager, for our Mumbai office (and/or WFH), to bridge the gap between technical knowledge and business needs. You will help build our Mobile Advertising Products on Web & App for some of the world’s most valuable brands.

Reporting to the CEO, the Sr. Product Manager, will gain broad exposure internally, interacting with every internal department at mCanvas including senior leadership. We're looking for a candidate who is capable of learning and can figure things out for himself/herself. Mentorship is available, but you will often be on your own. Self-motivated, organized, independent - these are key descriptors that you should ascribe to yourself.

The Sr. Product Manager is responsible for developing strong relationships with industry related companies and working with our in-house engineering teams, to create innovative products and features. The ideal candidate must understand the product scope of the Online Advertising and Online Services Industry in order to assess and recommend new products for our rapidly growing Advertiser base. This person will work closely with internal marketing services group, sales, support, development and other functional units in order to successfully manage and coordinate all products and features releases.

Responsibilities

  • Understand user needs, gather requirements, create roadmaps and work with engineers to launch new products
  • Actively seek new products to integrate with current product lines
  • Apply innovative ideas and concepts to improve product features and performance
  • Manage technology partner relationships, identify necessary and/or desirable third-party features; evaluate and select vendors, negotiate agreements and contracts, and manage partnership integration
  • Become an expert on all product releases from development to post-sales support
  • Develop product related internal and external processes
  • Gather competitive industry and market analysis to understand customers’ needs, current trends and partnership opportunities

Required Skills

  • 6-9 years of product management experience required in creating apps, web products and services for online advertising
  • Experience with new product planning, requirements gathering and process management
  • Expertise with Interaction Design and ability to align UX with product management
  • Flexibility to work in a fast-paced and highly dynamic environment
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

Desired Skills

  • Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering or a related technical field
  • Entrepreneurial experience
  • Knowledge of programming languages, HTML5 and CSS3 (Note: You are not required to code)
  • Usability testing experience for either web-based or GUI interfaces

Benefits

  • Young, Dynamic, Competitive work environment
  • 5-day work week
  • Casual dress code
  • Allowances (medical, maternity, etc.)
  • Bonus- Performance, Referral, Marriage & Child
  • Big Results = Big Rewards
  • Daily Recreational Activities organized by WeWork Community (Stand Up shows, Yoga Classes, Dance Classes, Training Programmes, etc.)

About Us

About mCanvas
mCanvas is an experiential storytelling platform that helps brands emotionally connect with their audiences on small screens. Our mobile ads and content marketing solutions make experiences interactive and memorable by etching phone sensors and device features in to the brand narrative. mCanvas is creating 'wow' moments every day by reinventing formats, building tools and providing a marketplace (of 70+ publishers like Moneycontrol, RepublicWorld, TheHindu, ScoopWhoop, and SportsKeeda) to run these experiences at scale. To see our award-winning work and learn more visit mCanvas.com

About Affinity
Affinity is an ad tech company which creates user engagement products (branding and performance) for digital media. It is in the business of creating sustainable and scalable advertising/media products with special attention to user experience. Established in 2014, Affinity is now a 140+ employee company that operates 5 business units, namely - mCanvas, VEVE, Siteplug, OneDash.ai & Yield Solutions. For more information, visit www.affinity.com.

To apply, please send your resume to careers@affinity.com