• Application Deadline: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Product Associate


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 3 - 5 years


• Location Lagos


• City Victoria Island


• Job Field Project Management 
  

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements


• Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed


• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.


• Work closely with Tech teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources


• Outline a product timeline and oversee the project’s successful execution.


• Create and manage budgets for the product.


• Develop clear user stories, detailed feature specifications, tasks, acceptance criteria and timelines


• Prioritize projects and ensure the most important work is being delivered


• Advocate for the product, offer insights, answer questions, and provide clarifications to ensure the vision is being executed


• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product


• Act as a key contributor to product design and the overall user experience


• Collaborate with a team of designers, writers, developers, quality assurance analysts and other subject matter experts


• Communicate project status updates to all key stakeholders


• Utilize project management software and ensure all required updates are documented effectively


• Build and maintain effective working relationships with team members across the organization


• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements


• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process


• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates


• Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by the development teams


• Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals


• Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities


• Serve as the product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions related to the product


• Collaborate with stakeholders to craft vision and concept development of a product


• Drive product launches including working with M&C team, executives, and other product management team members


• Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services


• Determine the type of advertising and marketing content, such as TV, radio, print, digital or social media, that needs to be created and distributed.


• Develop and maintain relationships with external vendors whose products or services will be needed for the product.


• Other duties as assigned by the management.

Key Deliverables

• Define the product strategy and roadmap.


• Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product


• Perform product demos to customers


• Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals


• Deliver a monthly revenue forecast


• Develop sales tools and collateral


• Propose an overall budget to ensure success


• Brief and train the sales force at monthly sales meetings


• Must be conversant with the following product stages:


• Idea generation (Ideation)


• Product definition.


• Prototyping.


• Initial design.


• Validation and testing.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with 3 - 5 years work experience.