About Vera
Vera Solutions is a social enterprise and Certified B Corporation® building cloud and mobile applications for social impact organizations worldwide. Our clients—more than 300 organizations in over 55 countries—include major iNGOs and grant-making organizations, social enterprises, and community-based organizations.
Position Overview
The PROMISE³ Product Manager will be part of Vera's team in Mumbai working closely with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and playing a critical role in the direction, management, improvement, and support of PROMISE³. PROMISE³ is an offline mobile app designed for teachers and head teachers in resource-limited settings to support data management for student enrollment, attendance, and assessments. While the app has already been launched, this position is involved throughout the product life cycle - market research, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, design of new features, maintain product quality, and provide training and technical assistance.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop and provide deep technical and market-based expertise on PROMISE³
- Lead discovery and design efforts for new features and engage with all stakeholders during the process
- Collaborate with implementation team and AKF staff to conduct user research, document user stories, and translate them into actionable product features
- Write product requirements and market requirements documents
- Drive strong project management with planning, communicating, documenting and tracking activities using project management tools
- Understand high-level requirements and create epics and write detailed user stories
- Ensure all communication and decisions are documented
- Monitor and report on product quality, adoption and user feedback throughout product lifecycle
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- 2+ years experience as a Product Manager, or similar role in a SaaS company
- Professional experience in a product design or research capacity
- Experience in an agile software development environment, with rapid feedback loops and quick release cycles
- Demonstrated success with project management and tools such as JIRA
- Excellent written and verbal communication and relational skills; ability to lead technical conversations and to manage relationships with various stakeholders
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment and perform multiple tasks effectively
- Insatiable desire to improve skills and knowledge of self and others
Desirable
- Experience with Salesforce
- Experience with Android mobile development
- Interest in international education or international development
- Experience developing and managing managed packages on top of Force.com platform
How to apply:
Please click here and complete the online application form.