Assistant Product Manager at First Excelsia

Industry: Tech

Location: Lekki, Lagos

Our client, an innovative research and development company with trail blazing products in the education and health sector is seeking to engage the service of an Assistant Product Manager.

The role holder will work closely with the Product Manager in driving the evolution of products and features and enabling new ways to provide value to our target audience.

The position holder will need to be highly analytical with a good understanding of product management frameworks and must be hungry for new challenges. The position involves identifying new product opportunities, creating product metrics, conducting user research and building design flows with the technology team.

The ideal role holder will have a quantitative understanding of market indices and matrix which will include studying the company’s products, managing and measuring user experience while locating key features that will attract customers and creating marketing campaigns for products.

Job Description:

• Suggest product enhancements to improve user experience
• Perform quality assurance controls on products
• Coordinate with the engineering department to deliver functional solutions
• Conduct research to identify customer needs and market gaps
• Prioritize the implementation of new features and set specific timelines
• Monitor and report on users’ reactions after launching
• Supporting the development team by prioritizing the product backlog and creating user stories
• Working with the engineering team on core specifications and product functionality
• Assist in managing the entire product lifecycle and product roadmap
• Liase with the engineering team on core specifications and product functionality
• Create and optimize technical components shared across multiple products.
• Create reports that effectively communicate trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data
• Deliver business outcomes; growth, customer retention, revenue, etc.
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities
• Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world

Person Specification

• Minimum of 2-3years work experience in Product Management position preferably in the IT or Educational Technology industry.
• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Information Technology or any other related field.
• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analysing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, etc)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to details and accuracy
• Adept at queries, report writing and presenting finding
• MBA in Business Administration is an advantage.