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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
