YAL is building Discovery — an intent-driven social platform that connects people through situation-based matching. We help people find the one specific person who has been in their exact situation and can actually help. We are launching across IITs, IIMs, and top campuses in India. The team is 15 people, the product is launching in 18 days, and the work is real from day one.
- The Role
You will work directly with the product lead and own the operational product layer that makes execution possible — research synthesis, engineering coordination, design review, EIR programme intelligence, and user feedback triage. You are not managing people. You are making sure the right information gets to the right person at the right time so that decisions happen quick and well.
- What You Will Do
- Product intelligence and research
- Own the EIR product intelligence system — read conversation notes coming in from 22 campuses, run the extraction pipeline, identify patterns, and deliver a weekly synthesised report to the product lead.
- Audit research quality — identify when EIR conversations have sampling bias, leading questions, or weak methodology before that data reaches product decisions.
- Cross-check qualitative interview findings against survey data and produce a reconciled picture of what users actually want versus what they say they want.
- Turn research into product recommendations with evidence attached — not summaries, decisions.
- Engineering coordination
- Attend daily standups across all engineering teams, summarise, flag blockers, and escalate only what genuinely needs the product lead.
- Own minor product decisions within defined boundaries. Make the call and document it. Escalate the ones that require strategy.
- Track sprint progress and surface risks before they become blockers.
- Design review
- Own the weekly design review loop — check UI/UX decisions against PRD specs, flag deviations, write clear actionable feedback in writing.
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