Product Manager

About GradRight

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and

financial institutions on one platform. It enables students to find and fund high return college

education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an

effective and efficient manner. Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company

dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all.

We have enabled 250,000+ students to get the best deals on $ 4+ Billion of loan requests and

facilitated disbursements of more than $ 450+ Million in loans. We enable 50+ universities

across US, Europe, Canada to develop their brand in India, attract the right students to apply

and enroll for their Graduate programs. It has commenced a new business line of marketing,

enrolling and managing the Online Programs for its university partners. Founded in 2019,

GradRight has offices across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Delhi and Washington DC.

GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch

and scale-up of premier higher education institutions like Ashoka, Krea and Plaksha

University. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, ISB Hyderabad and BITS Pilani and University of

Pennsylvania. GradRight is also the winner of the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge

supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India.

We are agile, motivated, small team, passionate about education and believe in having fun,

working hard and helping each other grow professionally and personally. We look forward to

inviting an energetic team member who has a knack for data and research across digital

platforms that will help in revolutionizing the higher education sector.

Brief

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience and building

products - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As an APM, you’ll own

the execution of various products at GradRight. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work

with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s

vision and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and

deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers

• Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
• Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into

full-blown designs

• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine

product requirements

• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while

optimizing for time-to-market

• Own the design engineering teams hand-off, release timelines and work with

business teams to plan and execute product launches

Requirements

• At least 3 years experience as a product owner at a startup, with war stories to

share

• Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
• Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to

work with top-notch engineering teams

• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job

done.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentational and public speaking skills
• Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have

• Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
• Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Additional resources

• Our team - https://gradright.com/about-us
• Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
• GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram