Lead, Product

Babban Gona

Babban Gona

Product
Lagos, Nigeria
Posted 6+ months ago

Job Description

Product Planning and Strategy

  • Initiate and execute projects to provide strategic direction for innovative growth opportunities that leverage technology trends, market trends and integrated solutions.

  • Develop user-centric product plans and identify new product opportunities by periodically conducting voice of the customer (VOC) research.

  • Initiate, develop and maintain long term product strategies/road maps for our product portfolio.

Product Performance

  • Collaborating with the ES Engineering in product implementation.

  • Collaborating with the product design team to create intuitive designs.

  • Collaborating with product users to align on user requirements and critical operational functions.

  • Contributing to a pro-active, self-motivating Scrum team, the technical architecture and implementation, and team efficiency initiatives and culture

  • Consistently testing product performance, functionality, component(s) and systems

  • Risk management; escalating where required.

  • Initiate and implement product strategies and plans for the portfolio and coordinate necessary cross-functional activities.

  • Identify and drive process improvement within the product management function.

Customer Focus

  • Communicate with, and deeply understand customers, technology, and competition, and synthesize into product strategy

  • Develop product requirement and priorities and communicate same across the company by collaboration and building consensus

  • Define key metrics that define the success of products

  • Integrate user research studies, analytics, and market analysis into product requirements

  • Participate in product user research, product design reviews and demos


Requirements

  • Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

  • Minimum 5 years experience in Product Management, Business Development or related experience.

  • Experience interacting with both internal and external customers.

  • Ability to analyze, interpret and draw meaningful and accurate conclusions from data.

  • The successful candidate will be expected to be a high-energy, creative and resourceful self-starter.

  • Ability to effectively and actively communicate with both business, technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Excellent analytical and organizational skills

  • Strong work ethic and demonstrated a willingness to drive projects to closure

  • Strong deductive reasoning and attention to detail

  • Ability to efficiently manage multiple projects in a fast-paced & dynamic environment under tight timelines, while adaptive to change

  • Strong sense of customer service to consistently and effectively addresses customer needs

  • Knowledge of Agile software development framework, architecture concepts, and terminology

  • Experience and/or accreditation in Scrum framework a plus


Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Health Insurance
  • Pension
  • Performance Bonus
  • Annual paid vacation
  • Group Life Insurance