Do you have a bottom up problem solving approach to your work and love to solve at scale? Do you dig data and love generating insights from it? If your answers to both questions are a resounding yes, then you might be just the right fit for a Product Manager (PM) and Associate Product Manager (APM) roles Meesho is looking to hire for. But what does a PM/APM do at Meesho exactly?

Let’s find out from Ayush Baheti, Senior Product Manager at Meesho

“Product Managers at Meesho love problem solving. Give them any ambiguous problem, they will break it down structurally, use data (both quantitative and qualitative) to make a hypothesis, find the biggest opportunity areas, then brainstorm and figure out a solution. They will then experiment to validate it quickly and if the solutions works, then scale it up.

Irrespective of the team the PM or APM joins, he/she will be always focused on Making Resellers Successful (a core Meesho value). The problems itself may range from finding the right kind of resellers, educating them about how to grow their business, make their orders grow, give them a delightful delivery experience and solving their operational issues.

All problems solved at Meesho are problems solved at scale — which means you will be impacting the lives of millions of resellers across the country, helping them earn financial freedom and a sense of identity! You will get to have complete ownership of a problem/problems and will be encouraged to solve them in the best possible ways.

Here are some of the key skills that an ideal PM/ APM candidate ought to have:

  1. An amazing bottom up problem-solving approach
  2. The ability to take complete ownership of work
  3. Should be really good at working with and generating insights from data
  4. Should exhibit great communication skills while working with multiple stakeholders

Ready to learn more about the roles? Let’s go!

Associate Product Manager

As an Associate Product Manager at Meesho, you will be the ambassador of our customers, and address their needs and solve their problems by collaborating with our Engineering and Business teams. You will help design and implement our products, manage the end-to-end execution of product features, and contribute towards product vision and strategy.

Responsibilities and skills required for the APM role:

  1. Have an experience of at least 1–2 years in product/analyst roles
  2. Ability to understand and analyse user needs
  3. Maintain a deep understanding of the competitive product landscape and trends
  4. Ability to validate and pitch new product ideas
  5. Define features through detailed specifications, user stories and wireframes
  6. Proficient in Advanced Excel and Advanced SQL, including a hands on experience with data

Product Manager

Meesho is also looking to hire a Product Manager, who will develop and manage our seller facing products. He or she should be comfortable marshaling large amounts of data to make strategic decisions and build impactful products. As part of this role, you will be responsible for improving the most important metric of our platform — that of price, quality and variety in products listed. You will collaborate with multiple stakeholders including Operations, Technology and Business Development teams to work on pricing strategy, and a road map to creation and product execution.

Responsibilities and skills required for the PM role:

  1. 1–4 years of product management or product design experience, preferably in the consumer internet/e-commerce industry
  2. Develop and define product roadmaps and feature concepts.
  3. Identify a new product, finalize requirements, plan, resource and deliver a new product
  4. Drive product development with a team of world-class engineers
  5. Deep understanding of customers, technology and competition, and to then synthesize into product strategy
  6. Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction
  7. Define, document, and communicate objectives, requirements and constraints for product initiatives and releases
  8. Define and analyze metrics for the success of products
  9. Prowess in market landscaping & competitive analysis
  10. Should be able to track the health of the business, user engagement and product performance.
  11. External benchmarking with the competition and the market
  12. Analytical thinking and great problem-solving skills

Why join Meesho?

Meesho is building a disruptive distribution channel via social selling on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social channels. Meesho has so far enabled 15,000 suppliers and 2,000,000 resellers to start and grow their online business minus any investment, providing tools around sourcing, logistics and payments. These social sellers are small retailers, housewives, students, retired citizens and many other aspiring entrepreneurs across India.

Want to know how Meesho is impacting the lives of resellers across the country, then hear it from our entrepreneurs here and about Meesho’s four year journey here! Plus, did you know we have an awesome work culture at Meesho. Have a look here.

Meesho is Series D funded with a new investment round led by South African company Naspers Ventures along with participation from Facebook and existing investors such as SAIF, Sequoia, Shunwei Capital, RPS and Venture Highway. We have raised $ 190 million till date. Meesho is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and was one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. It was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad — Solve for India programme. In 2018 and 2019 (for two consecutive years), Meesho was named by LinkedIn as LinkedIn India’s Top 25 Startups — 2019 to work for based on top talent pull, jobseeker interest and levels of professional engagement with its employees. Recently, Meesho was also featured on Y Combinator’s Top Companies List 2019, was declared as the No 1 Personal Growth App of the year by Google Play and one of the top 5 companies in the 50 Disruptive Startups Of India — 2019 by YourStory. Meesho is also Great Place to Work (GPTW) certified.

Think you have it in you to join our Product team and help Meesho create 20 million entrepreneurs by 2020? Then apply here. We are hiring!