Head of Product & Technology | Mobility Startup | B2C | Short joiner
- B2C Mobility Startup
- 15 - 20 years
- Bengaluru
- 8 days ago
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Job Description
Job Title: Head of Product & Technology
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Position Overview:We are seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to head our Product and Technology function. This individual will take charge of shaping and delivering high-impact customer-facing platforms across web and third-party integrations. The focus of the role will be to establish world-class engineering and product development practices, build a strong team of developers and solution architects, and manage the end-to-end product engineering roadmap.
The role is central to driving business growth by enhancing customer digital engagement, increasing referral traffic, and improving cross-sell revenue and profitability. You will be responsible for aligning product strategy with engineering execution, ensuring scalable and innovative technology solutions aligned with business KPIs.
Key Responsibilities:
Technology & Product Leadership
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, business leaders, and external vendors to drive the product vision to reality.
- Lead architecture and technology decisions in collaboration with other senior technical leaders and architects.
- Develop and maintain technology roadmaps and participate in long-term architectural planning.
- Foster strong collaboration between product, design, architecture, and engineering teams.
- Own planning processes, including breaking down work, effort estimation, and release scheduling.
- Oversee engineering capacity planning and build teams equipped to deliver through robust training and development strategies.
- Bring a forward-thinking approach to the role, introducing innovative market trends and emerging technologies.
Product Strategy
- Support the development of a clear product strategy and roadmap by assessing feature requirements, technical feasibility, development effort, and setting appropriate go-to-market timelines.
- Align product initiatives with company goals to drive business impact.
People & Delivery Management
- Track project milestones and communicate status updates across leadership levels.
- Set clear objectives and performance metrics for engineering teams.
- Actively remove roadblocks to team progress and foster a high-performance culture.
- Provide mentorship and career guidance across all roles and experience levels within the team.
- Organize and lead Agile ceremonies, including daily scrums and sprint planning.
- Promote continuous improvement and engineering excellence across teams.
- Drive recruitment efforts and refine hiring practices to attract top-tier talent.
Skills & Technical Expertise
- Proven experience in leading software engineering teams in fast-paced, Agile environments.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of:
- Django and Python
- React and modern frontend frameworks
- AWS and cloud-native application development
- PostgreSQL and relational database management
- REST API design and development
- Familiarity with software design principles and scalable architectural patterns
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in software development, with at least 10 years in leadership roles.
- At least 10 years of experience in product management, particularly with B2C applications.
- Track record of building and scaling enterprise-level web and mobile products.
- Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and user-centered design.
- Experience in startup environments and scaling digital platforms from 0 to 1.
- Exposure to end-to-end digital ecosystem development including front-end applications (web, mobile apps, PWA) and analytics.
Job Classification
Industry: Software ProductFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Head - EngineeringEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: B2C Mobility StartupLocation(s): Bengaluru
Keyskills: Head of Technology Django React.Js Startup Python Scalability Product Design Engineering Management Product Development Rest Api Design B2C Software Product Development Product Engineering AWS
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