Job Description
About the Job
- We are looking for a Product Lead with experience building large-scale platforms.
- The ideal candidate would be someone who enjoys taking apart a problem and experimenting with the best solution for users.
- You should be someone who pays attention to detail and enjoys learning about new systems, processes and technologies. You should be someone whose primary desire is getting products launched FAST.
- As a Product Lead at Moni, you’ll be responsible for guiding a team that builds APIs, platforms, and interfaces for our agents.
- You’ll get to work closely with our Growth and Engineering teams to conceptualize, build and maintain delightfully successful products that solve our users' pain points.
- Our team is small but highly motivated and accomplished. A small team means a greater opportunity for your voice to be heard and a chance for you to have a say in shaping the product.
What You'll be Doing
You'll:
- Work closely with the COO, Growth and Engineering teams in implementing our product vision
- Develop requirements and prototypes based on product strategy and vision
- Engage closely with our customers to understand their pain points with using our products and creating solutions around them.
- Define, monitor and analyze metrics to guide product improvements
- Create and own the roadmap; prioritise initiatives according to aggregate needs, with defensible reasoning that aligns stakeholders and energizes the design and engineering teams
- Monitor and communicate updates on product priorities to internal and external stakeholders
- Work with our external partners to deliver solutions that will solve problems for our users
- Drive progress across product initiatives by removing blockers from the team and going the extra mile to ensure that the product objectives are met
- Make several decisions daily on the best path to success for our product objectives
What it Takes to Succeed in the Role
You:
- Are a clear and empathetic communicator both verbally and in your writing
- Are motivated by the opportunity to improve the lives of our users
- Have a deep and unrelenting customer focus
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid, manageable tasks and action plans
- Are a creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, analytics, marketing, design and sales
- Obsess about continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium and large releases beyond just shipping new products
- Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions
Required skills:
- 3+ years of experience in Product development.
- Demonstrate the ability to create, update and maintain product documentation
- Ability to assess ascertain technical risks
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills
While this isn't a requirement, it'll be a plus if you have:
- Experience working at a Fintech or Fintech Startup focused on Mobile Money Services
- Prior experience with leading a Product team
- 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer building production grade applications