Black Pen Recruitment is a diversified specialist recruitment consultancy situated in the heart of Cape Town, led by highly respected recruitment professionals, each accomplished in their own right to consult and deliver on staff placement assignments.
This is an exciting position in a fast-paced ever-growing, profitable, venture-backed company. Our client is looking for a highly driven, analytical team-player with a positive attitude and the experience to lead product development teams through all stages of the product life cycle.
Top candidates are clear communicators who are highly self-motivated, eager to collaborate, exchange knowledge, apply new skills and pitch in for whatever the team needs to ship new services.
Responsibilities
Empower product teams to easily make data-informed decisions via self-serve solutions such as visualizations, dashboards, and automated data models
Draft reports and conduct research
Experimental designing
Collaborate on a cross-functional level to define, track and monitor metrics for tactical and strategic needs
Design and conduct experiments to measure the impact of existing and new product features
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics and Marketing teams to solve scaling challenges and to coordinate cross-functional initiatives
Research and implement new operational tools and processes to accelerate and streamline product delivery and user experience
Shape actionable recommendations about complex issues critically and concisely
Provide insights in the form of recommendations and action items to ad-hoc analyses (e.g., to increase X, we have to do Y)
Team:
Exude your upbeat energy and enthusiasm each and every day to motivate your team to be the best they can in every aspect of what they do
Celebrate the success of others by recognizing the contributions of committed team members and their achievements
Align your values with the Mission, Vision and Values of the Client
Be a role model for the Client's organizational culture by creating a positive impact at every touchpoint with people, with every word you say or put in print and everything you do
Communicate in a fashion that is respectful and well understood
Collaborate with your peers to collectively think of innovative ideas that drive business through technology
Build and utilize working relationships with internal business partners across the organization and external business contacts
Requirements
3+ years of experience in product operations, cross-functional project management in a software development company, or strategy consulting
3+ years of operational experience at a fast-growing tech company, in a highly agile, project-based environment
Industrial Engineer qualification
Strong UX focused
Design and research skills
Strong experience in user interface design
Knowledge in business process
Product Management experience
Solid track record of driving complex projects with many stakeholders to success
Problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical experience
Experience in product analytics and BI tools
Curious, structured thinker, strong communicator
Highly productive and motivated by solving hard problems
Operate in a kind and low-ego way
Not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get stuff done in a fast-moving, ever-changing startup environment
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