Senior Product Manager

What we do: At Vahan, we’re helping 300M+ blue-collar workers in India find jobs using digital and AI driven solutions with a human touch. Over time, we want to become the center of all things work and financial needs for blue-collar workers, and will thus expand to use cases in financial services and upskilling.

We’re a Y Combinator company that is backed by marquee investors such as Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund and Airtel.

What we seek: We’re seeking a Senior Product Manager who will play a pivotal role in building our Network Marketplace. In this role, You’ll help define the core product vision, goals, MVP experiments, and experience. You will collaborate closely with our users and cross-functional stakeholders like sales, supply acquisition, data/AI and customer success to drive key results. You’ll identify market forces, network effects, translate user needs into action, and work hands-on with our design and engineering teams to build products that align with the success of blue collar recruiting businesses.

This is a highly entrepreneurial position and will require you to wear a number of different hats. Our culture is built on core values that inform everything we do. We encourage high ownership, collaboration, feedback, and a growth mindset.

What's your mission:

• Be the owner and lead the product strategy and initiatives for the marketplace.
• Work collaborative with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives and product adoption.
• Ruthlessly prioritize initiatives and drive execution with strong focus on velocity.
• Hustle with empathy across early adopters and SMB customers everyday to drive GTM adoption
• Lead and be hands-on in product delivery with limited oversight, utilizing appropriate product frameworks.
• Support a cross-functional working environment by ensuring all voices are heard, challenging the team throughout the definition and delivery process, and by building and maintaining productive relationships with both the customers and team.
• Hustle with empathy across SMB customers frequently to drive GTM adoption.
• Ability to be entrepreneurial – leading projects and getting them across the finish line.

What you bring:

• Customer obsession: You practice user empathy and are comfortable embedding yourself with users on a regular basis.
• Analytics: You are very comfortable getting the data you need and transforming it into insights and initiatives without support. SQL, scripting languages, and data-visualization packages are tools you can easily reach for and leverage, so your decisions are data-informed and clearly articulated.
• Marketplace experience: Understand the undercurrents of building an efficient marketplace as part of a business network.
• Collaboration: Track record of delivering results with cross-functional teams.
• A strong work ethic. (see: What's Work Ethic)
• Hustle: You thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Experience: 4+ years of product management experience.
• Bonus: Prior experience building for b2b marketplaces or Indian SMBs.
• Bonus: You’ve worked at a rapidly growing startup.

We know experience comes in many different forms, some visible on your resume, others not. No one candidate will be a 100% perfect match to our description, so if you thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually-charged environment and have similar experience to what we are looking for, we encourage you to apply.

Why you’ll LOVE Vahan:

• We’re a small team that enjoys working hard, getting a lot done and having fun.
• Not to mention that you’ll work on a product that is making a profoundly positive impact on people’s lives.
• We also provide an outstanding training ground for aspiring entrepreneurs and India-first product builders.

We can promise:

• We care about you. We offer competitive health insurance for employees and their dependents.
• Unlimited PTO so you can take the time you need to rejuvenate.
• You’ll love where you work. We have a bright and modern collaborative office space located in the heart of Bangalore’s most happening neighborhood!