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What is the perfect Job Description (JD) ?

So, what’s a great Job Description document (JD)? What goes into making a PERFECT JD?

Should it be a 1 pager or 2?

How does one get the perfect content for :

– Describing the Company.

Striking the balance between being too over bearing vs. too crisp (works when Google puts out a job and doesn’t need to tell the world who it is, but not when you are a start-up that no one has heard of)

– Capturing the opportunity.

Does one risk spelling out the Company’s real insight and vision and raison de etre to the world?

– CLEARLY defining roles and responsibilities.

How can the job be described? Which details go in and which get left out? What is the granularity required?

– Personality descriptions:

Is it important? Can it become intrusive or sound personal?

– Hygiene

What are hygiene points? Who does the person report to, where is the job located etc?

– Remuneration!

The touchiest topic. Do you state what your Company’s approach is – in the matter of remuneration in the JD itself? How do you set expectations right?

Is there anything left out?

I dont think there is a perfect answer – but since all of us create JD’s and even respond to them, I thought this was an ideal forum to have a discussion on the same. Also the request was to SHARE JD’s that people swear by/ have seen work wonderfully / would NEVER recommend to use etc.

This is a template of a JD that we use at Games2win:

 

 

 

 

Product Manager for a Mobile Social Network

About Us:

Games2win is one of the fastest growing online gaming companies in the world and features in the top 20 online gaming properties (USA and World – according to comScore reports). Top tier investors such as Clearstone Venture Partners & Silicon Valley Bank have funded Games2win.
Games2win owns and operates www.games2win.com, Chimpoo.com, Gangofgamers.com and Inviziads.com. The web properties and the in-game network reach over 15 million unique users a month. The company’s studios are based in Mumbai – India and also has operations in the USA.

The founders of Games2win are Alok Kejriwal – serial entrepreneur (google link); and Mahesh Khambadkone – an online gaming specialist linkedin link.

What’s the opportunity?

Games2win has 26 applications on the iTunes store. With over 5 million app installs, we are one of the largest Indian players in this space. The company plans to launch a new app every week for the next two years.

In the next 2 months, games2win will be launching a social layer for mobile applications called Appucino. This is an opportunity to mould a platform on the fastest growing medium in the world – the mobile internet.


Role and Responsibility:

  • Brainstorm with the management and spec out the product requirements.
  • Documenting the ideas discussed to form detailed product notes and explaining these ideas to all team members.
  • Proactively work with the Art, Tech and QC teams in rolling out the plans.
  • Drive its growth based analytics.
  • Ideate on how the platform can deliver value to consumers and developers.
  • Benchmarking the platform with similar products in the social mobile domain.
  • Owning and managing developer relationships. Pay attention to the trends you see in the community – what are they asking, what are they doing, where are they going and where are they coming from? Then plan to deliver based on the trend/requirement.

The Ideal candidate should:

  • be a quick learner, capable of working with technical and creative concepts and products as well as adept at managing details.
  • have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • have a hands on attitude, working closely across diverse teams such as creative, art, technology and QC to address product development needs.
  • pay attention to detail in documenting the ideas discussed so as to form detailed product notes and explaining these ideas to all team members.
  • be a good Problem solver with the ability to efficiently and effectively prioritize and make trade-offs when needed for regular platform releases.
  • possess a strong analytical skill set to evaluate the effects that the Product development will have on the platform and the metrics measured on a continuous basis.

Location:

This position is for Mumbai, India.

Reporting into :

COO – Mahesh Khambadkone

Age & Experience:

A minimum 2-4 years work experience is preferred.

Worked on developing platforms –

Eg: Mobile VAS products such as Ringtones, Caller Ring Back Tunes, Contests, cricket, games

Internet platforms – Chat, AdSense, AdWords, WordPress

MBA Freshers with a passion and drive will also be considered.

Remuneration:

As a practice, we have typically matched candidates existing packages + ADDED on lucrative performance incentives and of course ESOPs.*

The idea is to make the candidate actually take ownership role and then provide additional compensation on performance.

* in the exit of mobile2win China to Disney – the c2w group now has a proven track record of demonstrating how valuable its company esops can be.

Contact – mahesh@games2win.com

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