About Prophecy
Prophecy is a rapidly growing startup enabling all data users to visually build data pipelines with modern software practices including code on Github using its Low-Code Data Engineering Platform.
Prophecy is trusted by top Fortune 500 firms to replace their legacy ETL tools as they re-platform to the Cloud or Apache Spark. We're very well funded, backed by top VCs, and on the path to establishing ourselves as the leader on the cloud.
Prophecy is a Core Technology and Deep-IP company with engineering centered in India. Prophecy engineers often say that they have never worked in a more productive, higher-horsepower organization in their careers. The engineers love their work, are being challenged, and are doing the best work of their careers.
Position Summary
This is an amazing opportunity to be the first Product Manager based out of India in a high-growth, high-potential startup. You will be working with a team of dynamic engineers who take pride in solving complex problems.
We're seeking A players to work with A players. We're a high-growth company on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to revolutionize the way data engineering is done. Be a part of it.
Prophecy has assembled a world-class engineering team to build the Low-Code Data Engineering Platform. As a PM, your goal is to help guide and lead this team in achieving this mission. You would be responsible for several first-to-market efforts and direct revenue-generating product lines that will define the future of Prophecy.
The impact you will have
Product Vision & Strategy
Collaborate with the founders to define the product vision and strategy. Translate this vision into a clear product roadmap that aligns with business goals.
Lead Product Growth
Engage with the rest of the engineering team and become the driver of the future product roadmap of simple, functional, and elegant feature sets led by customer requests.
Drive the process
Write product documents such as roadmap, product requirements, and critical user journeys to build delightful products that drastically simplify our customers' jobs.
PM based out of India
Prophecy engineering is centered around India and you will be working based out of India, directly with founders, customers, and engineer leaders. This is one of the rare opportunities to work as a product owner from India.
Leadership & Mentorship
As an initial product team member, you will help build and mentor a team as the company grows and instill a strong product culture within the organization.
Over Achiever
In Prophecy we encourage and give environments to everyone to overachieve their own limits. Set up your own metrics, and improve them iteratively under the guidance of other leaders in the team.
Entrepreneurial skills
Own the features end to end as a founder/CEO from the requirement to delivery. We don’t believe in hierarchy, or the number of years of experience. Manage your own career growth.
What You'll Need/Do
- 10+ years of experience in product or engineering management
- Experience in Spark/Data Engineering puts you in front of everyone else
- Prior coding or engineering management experience will help you a lot
- Strong bias to ship products by understanding the most critical aspects to make the product successful
- Write product functional requirement specifications.
- Work closely with customers to understand product usage and convert them into product requirements.
- Evangelize the Prophecy product through blogs, social media platforms, and industry conferences.
- Work with the engineering, delivery, and success team to develop and manage overall requirements, scope, schedules, and deliverables with the engineering and success team’s stakeholders.
- Work very closely with engineering and deliver owners to plan and track features and releases.
- Experience moving large cross-cutting technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery, articulating the impact using metrics.
- Communication and interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team to develop solutions
- Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles
- Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
- Strong desire to work in a not well-structured, fast-moving startup environment
- You have been a top performer your entire career and have very high standards
- You have a very high sense of ownership and responsibility, with high attention to detail
- B Tech or above degree in CS or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Spark/Data Engineering
- Prior coding or engineering management
- You have shipped software over multiple releases, including software where you drove the delivery of the first version.
What You'll Have At Prophecy
- Great culture
- Competitive compensation.
- Fair and Open Equity awards for everyone
- Amazing work
- Flexible time off
- Private medical insurance
- Employee's Provident Fund
- Manage your own growth and career
- Experience building a transformative product
- High learning opportunity
- End-to-end ownership of your projects
At Prophecy, we hire for merit and foster an inclusive culture where people from diverse backgrounds can excel and do their best work. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Prophecy are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and any other protected characteristics under applicable laws.
Top Skills
What We Do
Prophecy.io is the only low-code data engineering platform. Prophecy democratizes the development and deployment of high-quality data pipelines, uniquely combining visual development with agile software engineering best practices. The developed code is open source and is targeted at Apache Spark & Apache Airflow. Prophecy is headquartered in Silicon Valley.
