Job Opportunity for Product Manager at Quest Alliance in Karnataka

Career Quest is an immersive and experiential career exploration journey for adolescents with the objective to provide exposure to different career journeys and in the process bring their attention to how gender and stereotypes affect choices and how to navigate them.

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible to develop and grow Career Quest or such products into a socially viable public product with learner and diversity at the heart of its development.

You will engage with a team of Development professionals, Education technology educators and learners from diverse backgrounds that would feed into the nuances of this product development. You will also be closely working with the Schools and Technology teams at Quest to align with the product principles of the organization. 

Its an opportunity to build a socially useful digital product that drives career decision making in young people.

Your responsibilities may also include close work with other education technology projects in the Schools ecosystem, while the first key project will be the Career Game.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of the product features from user journey to product release in a larger ecosystem.
• Create an operational plan for the product and define timelines.
• Manage vendors and pilot roll outs as well as coordination with externals.
• Capture User experience and document them in sharable formats.
• Research on similar products / games and bring design insights.
• Work closely with the Learning Experience team of larger Schools program to help keep the product grounded in learner experiences. 
• Manage the complete development cycle of the product and create a product roadmap based on insights and real experience.
• Manage data dashboard and backend to generate insights.
• Hold timelines, production processes, documentation and ensure deliverables are met on time.
• Support the training and transfer of product knowledge in the team as needed.
• Bring creativity and the spirit of innovation to product development through relevant research with stakeholders that could contribute to sharpening the product experience. 

Preferred Qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with an exposure to the development sector.
• Experience with consumer apps./games or ed-tech products are highly preferred.
• Proven experience in product analytics, preferably in a tech or digital product environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Familiarity with chatbot technology and user engagement strategies is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Proficient in data visualization tools and analytics software.
• 4-5 years of experience in product and software development.
• Experience in education-technology product management especially in gamification for learning/education.
• Proven understanding of entire product development pipeline (research, UI/UX, testing, refinement, expertise in gamification, data analytics, mobile development)
• Skills to document processes in a simple, understandable manner using data.
• Ability to convert user insights into actionable designs that inform design and strategy.
• A problem solver who enjoys solutioning, grounded in equitable social development.
• Collaborative approach to work with diverse stakeholders to uphold different perspectives.
• Coordination skills for product operations management.
• Budgeting and basic networking for products.