Lead Product Manager

Crimson Enago flagship products

At Crimson Enago we are laser-focused on building AI-powered tools and services that significantly boost the productivity of researchers and professionals. Every researcher or professional goes through the stages of knowledge discovery, knowledge acquisition, knowledge creation, and knowledge dissemination. However, each stage is cognitively heavy and is tightly coupled. In this direction, we have our flagship products Trinka and RAx that focus on making all these four stages easy and fast.   

About Trinka

Trinka ) is an AI-powered English grammar checker and language enhancement writing assistant designed for academic and technical writing. Built by linguists, scientists, and language lovers, Trinka finds and corrects thousands of complex writing errors — so you don't have to. Trinka corrects contextual spelling mistakes, and advanced grammar errors, enhances vocabulary usage, and provides writing suggestions in real-time. Trinka goes beyond grammar to help professionals and academics ensure professional, concise, and engaging writing. With subject-specific correction, Trinka understands the nuances in the expression of each subject and ensures the writing is fit for the subject. Trinka's Enterprise solutions come with unlimited access and great customization options to all of Trinka's powerful capabilities.

About Enago RAx

RAx ) is the first smart workspace that helps researchers (students, professors, and corporate researchers) to be better and faster in their research projects. Powered with proprietary AI algorithms and a unique approach to solving problems with design and tech, RAx is set to be the default workspace for any research-heavy projects. Launched in 2019, the product connects information (Research papers, Blogs, Wiki, Books, Courses, Videos, etc.) to behaviors (reading, writing, annotating, discussing & more), opening up newer insights and opportunities in the academic space that was otherwise not possible (or not imaginable).

About the team

We are a bunch of passionate researchers, engineers, and designers who came together to build a product that can revolutionize the way any research-intensive projects are done. Reducing cognitive load and helping people to convert information into knowledge, is at the core of our mission. Our engineering team is building a scalable platform that deals with tons of data, AI processing over the data, and interactions of users from across the globe. We believe research plays a key role in making the world a better place, and we want to make it easy to approach and fun to do

Role overview

We are seeking a Lead Product Manager with 5+ years of user-experience-driven product management experience (preferably B2C productivity SaaS), and either 3+ years of full-stack/backend development experience (preferably in product companies), or 3+ years of AI/ML/NLP research engineering experience. You will be working very closely with other product managers, product designers, user behavior researchers,  marketers, engineering leadership, research leadership, and top management to ensure the successful delivery of projects and pragmatic (re-)designing of the product roadmap in an agile, iterative way. What we would love to see in you are the following traits:

First-principle product-thinking: You would lead the product in our earliest stages, helping us build our platform products from the ground up and leading us through launch.

Build for an engaged community: Our users are professionals who are constantly in the process of knowledge discovery, assimilation, creation, collation, and dissemination. They work within closely-knit professional communities and are heavily influenced by thought leaders. You are hugely motivated to get deep into the psyche of the target audience and ensure both community-driven product-thinking and product-driven community growth.

Data-driven, evidence-centric product-thinking: You are able to value experience-driven gut feeling as a starting hypothesis and love to validate that through primary and secondary research following agile methodologies suitable for early-stage startups. You love operating amidst alternative views and honestly seek to validate them.

Collaborative mindset: You strongly believe that great ideas can come from any corner of the organization and needs to be valued and processed in a collaborative way. You are a team player who believes that ideas belong to the team and their success or failure is not that of an individual's.

The person that we are looking for

1. You will help formulate Enago One's long-term product vision, goals, metrics, and strategy.
2. You will translate that strategy into concrete plans and objectives over the short- and medium-term.
3. You will guide the prioritization of projects and help make resourcing and prioritization tradeoffs more generally.
4. You will build compelling product roadmap based on customer needs, resources, and strategic opportunities.
5. You will work closely with our AI/ML research team to ensure we are using the right metrics to inform our product roadmap and measure success.
6. You take pride in estimating project ROI with reasonable accuracy and ensure proactive communication up to and down the chain of command.
7. You are very well acquainted with best practices around project deployment and educate the team about the same.
8. You will be evaluating the product team performance (KPI).
9. You will be designing and overseeing the hiring process of product team making sure that we have a great product team that has: (a) a high level of curiosity, (b) resourcefulness, (c) solid expertise level, (d) high attention-to-details, (e) superb commitment and reliability, and (f) obsession for amazing user experience. This entails that you will be having a strong network of highly talented product managers, product designers, and growth designers whom you can reach out to and inspire (in an ethical and professional way) to join the team and create something that the world has never seen

Experience

1. You have 5+ years of product management experience (preferably productivity SaaS products) with a strong track record of shipping user-facing products that users love.
2. You have extensive first-hand experience in user behavior research.
3. You have strong expertise using both quantitative data (e.g., metrics, analytics) and qualitative data (e.g., user feedback, usability research, user behavior research) to inform product prioritization. You can analyze data yourself by writing SQL queries and using data analysis tools.
4. You have 3+ years of either full-stack/backend or AI/ML/NLP engineering experience.
5. You have built diverse and inclusive product teams.
6. You have very strong experience in the best practices around product management and project management.
7. You consider testing, monitoring, and observability first-order priorities. Until shipping achieves the minimum success criteria you expect, you know your work isn't complete.
8. You have worked on high-impact projects, and you see product management as a team sport and like collaborating with fellow product managers, and others to deliver customer value. You are energized by working in a highly collaborative environment at a user experience-obsessed startup.
9. You are a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) freak.
10. **Added advantage**:
    1. You either have a Ph.D. from a reputed university or have worked very closely with reputed research groups for 2+ years.
    2. You have 3+ years of experience in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) industry (eg. publication houses, edtech/researchtech)