Associate Product Manager

Associate Product Manager

Job Locations: Karachi, Pakistan

Functional Department: Product Management

Type: Regular, Full-Time

Working hours: 3 pm 12 am Pakistan time

Mission: Building World Class Technologists

Vision: Play a leading role in workforce development in mission-critical IT fields

Overview: QuickStart is a leader in IT workforce development that helps jobseekers break into in-demand IT fields and upskills existing IT professionals. The organization uses its proprietary learning methodology and workforce readiness platform (CLIPP) to deliver personalized learning using AI and multi-modal formats. We partner with leading universities, certification providers, and employers to build and transform IT workforce for Fortune 500 customers in the areas of App Dev, Dev Ops, Information Security, Cloud computing and Data Science. If you are interested in becoming a part of a team that is changing the game in IT training and workforce development, we want to hear from you.

At QuickStart, we are committed to upholding the following core values:

Passion |Respect | Accountability | Innovation | Speed | Execution [ PRAISE ]

The Associate Product manager (APM) is a leader of product focused on maximizing its revenue and margins while ensuring high level of customer satisfaction. This includes researching, prioritizing new opportunities and features to enable the company to;

a) Stay in the game,

b) Win the game and

c) Change the game as well as identifying products to be retired from the portfolio.

The APM ensures collaboration with sales, marketing, customers, experts, vendors, product development, industry advisory board members and customer support to deliver outstanding products that ensure revenue growth, margin and customer satisfaction goals are met. APM must identify areas for growth and create strategic products roadmaps to help drive adoption of the product and differentiation.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Be a leader, owner and visionary of the training products & platform and drive the product roadmap, product marketing and sales plans.

Responsible for revenue growth through various sales channels such as B2B and B2C (eCommerce).

Maintain a close pulse on financials for the product and develop plans from a strategic, tactical and financial perspective.

Deliver business cases with prioritized features, corresponding justification of investment and course approvals to a) Stay in the game, b) Win the game and c) Change the game.

Forge partnerships with external third parties such as professional trade associations to assess partnerships, vendor relationships and product buy vs licensing opportunities.

Use data to perform analyses on several aspects like Consumption Patterns, Industry Trends and Customer Acquisition metrics.

Establish VoC programs (Voice of the Customer) for the product and become integrated with the customer persona.

Make key delivery decisions, such as pricing and packaging, based on product performance metrics to meet revenue and profitability goals.

Interface with Ecommerce, B2B sales & marketing teams on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis and help develop/update value proposition, sales tools, collateral, sales training, demo decks, marketing plan and product roadmap.

Responsible to interface with technology and content product development and marketing teams to enforce release schedules and ETA s to meet customer, revenue and margin objectives.

Partner with sales and collect customer feedback and appropriately prioritize minor feature enhancements to support improved customer satisfaction.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

Masters is preferred in Technology or Business from a well-recognized University.

Minimum Knowledge and Experience

2+ years experience, preferably in a technology company.

Demonstrated proof of working on multiple initiatives concurrently.

Demonstrated ability to work across teams to get things done.

Background in technology and/or Marketing and/or Finance.

Excellent Written and Verbal communication skills.

Ability to maintain relationships with peers, leadership and partners.

Diligent and laser focus on follow up activities.

Background in doing some hands on technical work is preferred.