About Procol
Procurement functions in >80% companies are run on email/excel/phone calls – leading to inefficiencies, delays in procurement and cost leakages up to 20%. Procol is a platform to help procurement go from legacy, manual, excel / email based processes to automated systems – becoming ~50% efficient, 2x faster, and delivering 2-10% overall cost savings.
Founded in 2018, Procol’s solutions have been securely deployed at many $1B+ global companies helping procurement teams reduce costs, digitize procurements, and improve compliance by replacing emails and Excel workflows with the world’s most easy-to-use and secure procurement platform managing a spend of $5Bn+. Procol is rated 4.9/5 by trusted enterprises on G2 and has been featured by Forbes.
We’re a team of ex-Google New York, Zomato, OYO who’ve worked at high-impact, growth companies and believe that we’re on the journey of building one. We are backed by investors like Blume Ventures, Peak XV Surge, Beenext, and Rainmatter.
Job Description
As a Director – Product, you will be working towards the vision of making business easy for millions. You will be responsible for imagining and building the core procurement use-cases and experiences for businesses. This will involve a mix of strong product sense, first principles thinking, data analysis, platform product build and storytelling skills. You will lead a team of dedicated product managers.
You would be responsible for identifying problems, prioritizing ideas and solving them through product – right from problem discovery to conceptualization to launch. You should be comfortable carving out product strategy, defining OKRs for the team, helping build product roadmaps and setting up the right execution engine working with various stakeholders across data science, engineering, design and product teams.
What you’ll do:
- Devise Product Strategy: Define both long term strategy and quarterly roadmap to achieve the product vision and create impact.
- Conceptualize new solutions: Product Conceptualization with a problem first, data-driven and test & iterate approach.
- Ensures conceptualization from a platform and a long-term view. Ensures value-based prioritization of product initiatives.
- Build products: Collaborate with Engineering and Design to build products that customers love. Produce high- quality product specifications and effectively prioritize and manage the scope of each product launch to deliver products and features on time.
- Launch products: Draft and execute a go-to-market plan in conjunction with Product Marketing. Be the internal and external authority and advocate for your given area of focus.
- Stakeholder Management: Working with senior management in Procol in defining the strategy for your charter and collaborating with internal and external teams to bring the strategy into reality.
What you’ll bring to the table:
- You understand technology, but love customer-first & business-first thinking.
- You are an energetic self-starter with the ability to work independently in a competitive and fast-paced environment.
- You are curious about metrics, execution processes, and macro trends.
- You have an analytical and data-driven approach to day-to-day work.
- Problem-solving and detail orientation come naturally to you.
- You have a strong product sense and have experience building 0-1 products.
- You have at least 3 years of hands-on software development experience.
- You have at least 5-6 years of experience in Product Management.
Why you’ll love Procol?
- Monthly advance salaries Free breakfast and snacks
- Employee and Family health insurance covered
- Free subscription of PharmEasy, Clove, HealthifyMe, Lenskart, Wizio, Khyaal and Momly
- Fast-paced growth with a startup impacting thousands of businesses
- Upto 50% discounts on Sugar.fit, Tata 1mg, Food Darzee, Apollo and Heads up for Tails
- Close collaboration with the founding team in building a successful company.
Job Overview
Preferred Skills
Product Strategy
Problem-Solving
Data Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Product Development
