A Leading popular Indian brand known for its wearables and connected lifestyle products, and has become a leading player in the Indian market.
They are seeeking to hire An Assocaite Director - New Product Development with experience on IOT and a strong understanding technical aspects of a product development process in wearables.
Key Responsibilities
- Scope new products(devices) and their features based on customer persona, needs, and competitiveness.
- Build and maintain the product launch roadmap and lifecycle.
- Draft detailed technical specifications documents including PRD's for hardware and software requirements.
- Create software prototypes and wireframes of software features using AI tools.
- Manage and drive the entire product development process, both internally and externally, ensuring all stakeholder timelines and deliverables are met.
- Own product quality
- Deal with component supplier ecosystems across China and India
- Achieve product assortment goals while ensuring product quality and testing standards, as well as margin expectations, are met.
- Work closely with sales and marketing teams to understand existing sales numbers on projects and create product roadmaps to meet organisation goals.
- Research extensively on new technologies.
- Anticipate unfavorable events through analysis of data and prepare control strategies.
Skill Requirements :
Strong experience of 8+ years in consumer electronics (IOT experience will be a plus)Excellent in communication and presenting ideas.Preferred background of BE / B.Tech(EEE, ECE, EIT only).MBA will be a valueComfortable with understanding technical aspects of a product development process and communicating with engineering teams on trade-offs vs. implicationsTenacious and Self-motivated with the ability to ruthlessly drive and achieve business goals.Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and good at interacting with senior-level professionals(ref : iimjobs.com)