Description
Location:
Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Consumer Finance
Department: Product Development
Summary
The Product Manager is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.
He/She’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals.
Primary Responsibilities
Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
Define product strategy and roadmap
Translate concepts into wireframes and mock-ups that lead to intuitive user experiences and designs
Deliver design specifications with detailed prioritized features and specifications
Develop the core positioning and messaging for products
Perform product demos to customers and agents
Analysing potential partner relationships for the product
Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute
Follow up with engineering and QA team to test new features and products and ensure they are working as expected
Assist operations and technical team in troubleshooting reported issues
Keep abreast of industry and market trends
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 2:1 in Computer Science or Engineering and work experience a strong plus
3+ years of software product management experience
Knowledgeable in technology
Must have completed the mandatory NYSC
Career Level: Minimum 3 years of experience working in product management environment.
Key Competencies:
Organisational and planning skills
Experience in project management and/or agile software development methodologies is a plus
Communication skills – verbal and written
Interpersonal skills
Attention to details and accuracy
Self-driven and hardworking
Active listener
Multi-task and manage competing priority
Technical skills
Problem analysis and problem-solving skills
Judgement and decision-making ability
Initiative
Flexibility.
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Location:
Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Financial Services / FinTech
Department: Product Development
Reports to: Lead Project Manager
Summary
Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
As an Agile Project Manager at Paga, you will be responsible for coordinating the product development activities to guide a product development team through the agile product development processes employed by the team for successful, efficient delivery of projects. You will also be responsible for tracking product delivery metrics and for much of the communication about the team activities with the rest of the organization and stakeholders.
To be an effective Agile Project Manager at Paga, you must:
Be able to shift easily between non-technical and technical perspectives and communicate effectively and persuasively with non-technical and technical-resources.
Be able to multitask very effectively and be comfortable juggling multiple product-development streams at once
Be fanatical about detail
Be comfortable with rapid change and be willing to
take ownership
to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment
Have a passion for quality and an ability and willingness to grow the ability of others in your team to meet those standards
As a distributed product development team member, communication and collaboration are key. You will need to be excellent at utilizing remote communication tools and applying clear communication and collaboration practices to effectively engage with your “customers”, team mates and other company stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities
Process execution and coaching - Owning the agile product development process for your team and continuously guiding all team members through the process effectively. Taking initiative to improve the process where appropriate
Strategic Engagement - Engage productively in strategic product-relation visions setting and strategic decision making. Take a leading role in consistently communicating business strategy with the team
Task and schedule management - Ensure that all projects are delivered per the iterative agile product development process while meeting expectations for timeliness, completeness and cost
Stakeholder communication – Maintain clear and transparent communication with stakeholder about the product development process and the status of product development efforts that concern them
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
Educational background, preferably in the fields of Software Project Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering / Physics
Bachelor’s Degree
Have good working knowledge of Scrum and Kanban agile development methodologies is a plus
Recognized agile project management certification is a plus.
Key Competencies:
Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
Excellent knowledge and/or experience executing successful Product Development methodologies with a software development team
Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
Strong working knowledge of productivity software such as MS Office
Highly professional and well presented.
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