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Product Manager

  • Job Type Full Time , Remote
  • Qualification BA/BSc/HND
  • Experience 3 years
  • Location Lagos
  • Job Field Product Management 
  • At TalentUp Africa fun is key to everything we do. We believe having fun is a way of unlocking both individual and team potential.
  • 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