• Application Deadline:
• Position: Product Manager


• Job Type Full Time , Remote


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 3 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Product Management 
  

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• We encourage and believe in the power of curiosity, and its contribution to personal fulfillment and company success.


• We are one team, and prioritize teamwork, openness, and transparency, care for each other, and integrity in all that we do.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related degree


• Agile/Scrum/Project Manager: 3+ years


• Direct management experience of a team of at least 4+ software professionals


• Experience organizing and leading cross-functional technical projects (clarifying requirements, resolving conflicts, defining roadmap, driving progress)


• Experience in assisting with and/or developing work plans for software teams


• Experience working in both greenfield and brownfield environments


• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, or similar project management systems


• Deep understanding of software development methodologies and common design pattern

Job Description

• We are looking for an experienced leader to join us as a Product Manager to help grow our existing engineering team and achieve our product and technology roadmaps. The ideal candidate is a well-organized leader with a track record of delivery.


• This is an engineering operational position that will require working alongside the business development, marketing, and executive teams to lead a team of software engineers at a growth stage company.


• The Product Manager will be required to demonstrate strong leadership skills to establish structure and improve efficiency within the development team.


• The Product Manager will leverage their experience to build high-quality, process and structure solutions that adhere to our company goals and guidelines.


• The Product Manager will provide project planning and manage the delivery of large scale, complex technical initiatives.


• He/She will act as a liaison between our infrastructure and software engineering teams to ensure that critical path items are well understood and prioritized, and specific tasks are well coordinated.


• The Product Manager will use organizational, project management, and communication skills to connect dots, provide insights and lead initiatives to on-time and on-budget completion.

Essential Functions

• Create Product Requirement Document (PRD) for new or existing solutions


• Review and recommend solutions to processes and business products


• Communicate reports about product backlogs, change management and performance to the team


• Maintain and manage the product backlogs


• Engage closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule


• Work with UI/UX designers to convert RDs into UI components that programmers can easily understand


• Conduct user and market research where required, as part of product discovery


• Responsible for Product Quality Assurance


• Research and benchmark of products built against world-class counterparts


• Establish product success targets including ROI before implementation, and lead the delta analysis after go-live


• Effectively establish project cost and schedule baselines, and create, manage, and report metrics to this baseline on a cyclical rhythm


• Own planning, standups, demos, retrospectives, and the execution of your sprints


• Ensure your systems self-report breaches and understand root cause


• Responsible for conducting various tests and quality assurance checks to verify the quality of completed projects

Critical Success Factors

• Strong interpersonal and soft skills to establish effective cross-functional working relationships to drive issue resolution and problem-solving


• Ability to thrive in a fluid environment where priorities shift week-to week and in some cases day-to-day


• Enjoy working with a team and sharing knowledge to improve processes and efficiency


• Demonstrate strong attention to detail and problem-solving ability


• Experience working in an Agile framework to deliver continuous improvement


• Experience building software from the ground up and all phases of the SDLC successfully: based on client satisfaction and software performance, stability, scalability, and extensibility


• Excellent written and verbal communications skills


• Great organization and time management capability for overseeing multiple tasks and prioritizing as needed


• Proactively recognize needs and take the initiative to share thoughts and possible solutions


• Demonstrable ability to think broadly about business, customer, and system impact