19 Aug
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Laneone Ventures
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India
19 Aug
Laneone Ventures
India
Product Strategy & Roadmap :
- Own Lecxes product roadmap: define what we build, in what order, and why - grounded in client feedback, field data from clients, and your own judgment about where the leverage is.
- Translate business strategy into products and AI solutions: identify the modules and capabilities that move MSME clients from chaos to operating system, and sequence them to maximise adoption and retention.
- Write clear product specs - not decks, not PRDs that gather dust. Specs that engineers can build from and clients can review the same day.
- Decide what not to build. Scope creep is the enemy; you protect the teams focus without being rigid about client needs.
Engineering Leadership & Hands-On Building :
- Build hands-on, daily. When a new engagement kicks off, you do the initial implementation or lay down the architecture yourself - especially for phase one of a multi-phase build, where phase two and three need to already be in mind. You are not someone who only tells engineers what to build; you get in and build alongside them.
- Own the architecture of Lecxes Business OS for your particular clients: agent orchestration (LangGraph), API design (FastAPI), data model (Postgres), and frontend patterns (Next.js).
- Set and enforce engineering standards: test what your team ships as thoroughly as you can, automate testing and workflows wherever it repeats, and review code at a high level for security exposure, redundant components that duplicate what already exists, and deviations from the codebases established patterns. You are the bar everyone else is measured against.
- Lead the design, R&D; and build of new product surfaces voice-first WhatsApp agents, vendor negotiation flows, inventory and finance modules, agentic ERP workflows and similar products.
- Make calls on technical debt, refactoring priorities, build vs. buy, and where to use AI to reduce engineering load permanently.
Team Leadership & Development :
- Lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers and Junior Developers.
You are their primary technical mentor and the person setting the quality bar.
- Run structured code reviews, design reviews, and 1:1s. You give feedback that makes people better, not just feedback that fixes the immediate problem.
- Onboard recent engineers to ship within their first week and operate independently within their first quarter.
- Build the engineering and product culture: how we write, review, and ship code; how we recover when something breaks; how we talk to clients when the news is not good.
Client-Facing Delivery :
- Lead technical discovery at client sites: sit with founders, operators, and floor teams; map their actual workflows; identify what is worth automating and what the system will never replace.
- Be the senior Lecxe presence in high-stakes client conversations scoping calls, escalations, QBRs, and go-live meetings. Clients should feel that the person who built the product is also the person accountable for its success.
- Translate ambiguous, contradictory business problems into clean technical scope, then into a working pilot typically in weeks, not quarters.
- Run implementation end-to-end: integration with client systems (Tally, ERPs, WhatsApp Business API, payment gateways), data migration, user training, go-live.
- Own the post-go-live relationship: you are the person the client calls when something needs to change, and the person who decides whether that change goes into the roadmap.
Must-Haves :
- A background that is genuinely both technical and commercial.
Ideal profile: B.Tech or B.E. from a top engineering institution, followed by an MBA from a top business school or equivalent demonstrated depth on both sides.
- 4 years of total experience with at least 2 years of hands-on software engineering in production systems you genuinely owned, and at least 1 year in a product management or product-adjacent leadership role.
- You build hands-on today. Not "used to" today. You can still sit down and do the initial implementation, or debug something gnarly, when a project needs it. Strong working knowledge of TypeScript/Next.js, Python/FastAPI, and Postgres is expected, and will be tested.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs in production: prompt design, agent orchestration (LangGraph or equivalent), tool use, RAG, and evals. You know where AI adds leverage and where it breaks down.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and grow engineers: code review, design review, structured feedback, and the patience to explain the same thing three different ways until it lands.
- Excellent spoken and written English. You can lead a technical discovery session by yourself, write a spec an engineer can build from the same afternoon, and present at a board-level review without notes.
- Commercial and analytical rigour you think in unit economics, retention curves, and prioritisation frameworks, not just features and timelines.
- High agency and composure under ambiguity. You make valuable calls with incomplete information, own the outcome, and do not wait for someone above you to clarify before acting.
- Willingness to travel to client sites across India including Tier-2/Tier-3 cities and MSME floors regularly.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Prior consulting, founders-office, or solutions-architect experience you have been the person walking into a client with a half-formed brief and shipping something that worked.
- Exposure to MSME operations, supply chain, ERP systems, or Indian B2B SaaS you understand the environment we deploy into.
- Open-source contributions, technical writing, or conference talks anything that shows you can make complex ideas accessible.
📌 Lecxe - Senior Product Manager (India)
🏢 Laneone Ventures
📍 India