The Company:
Saybot is a leading English learning technology platform provider for Chinese people interested in learning and improving their English. The company was founded and supported by technology visionaries Nicholas Negroponte and Leonard Kleinrock, and renowned VCs CID, CMHJ, and Vickers. Through Saybot’s innovative speech-based platform, English teachers, publishers, and schools can create and sell English curricula to 180 million English learners in China. By focusing on English learning and language technology innovations, Saybot and its partners are making English learning more efficient, effective and fun. Saybot has received governmental funding and several awards, including Red Herring 100 Asia.
The Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic and results-driven Business Product Manager to create effective solutions to add value to our training school partners. This position requires the candidate to collect and analyze user needs, oversee product design, author product features and specifications, and guide product ideas through the complete product lifecycle. Driving the effective delivery software products will require the candidate to have a passion for language learning and a solid background in software or web application.
Job Description:
As a Business Product Manager, your responsibilities will be to:
Design business model and revenue generating scheme
Manage the lifecycle of one or several Saybot products.
Gather and analyze client and user needs and requirements.
Define terms of product positioning, features and specifications.
Work closely with interactive designer to define the user experience
Evaluate product usage patterns, feedbacks and to continue improving product
Job Requirements:
Excellent business acumen and judgment
Bachelor's degree in computer science, software, business or equivalent.
3+ years of relevant experience.
1+ years of experience in software product design and management of the life-cycle of software or web-based product.
High level of creativity and strong initiative.
Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, communication and coordination skills.
Ability to communicate well in English and Mandarin Chinese.
