Product Manager - Senior Level at Sabi

 Job Summary
The Product Manager will be passionate about the African informal sector, with the ability to make data-driven decisions on the development of product. We’re looking for someone that has core experience in leading the build of mobile first products with a genuine outlook on customer experience. The role also requires strategy into Product Marketing initiatives that will drive engagement and retention across offline and online channels.
Job Description

• Ensure that there is a consistent and reportable routine for gathering insights from key sources (e.g., market, customers, competitors, product analytics) to derive and propose valuable initiatives.
• Collaborate with marketing to identify target and potential customer segments to create tailored value propositions and penetration strategies for your products.
• Collaborate with business owners to create compelling and insight-driven proposals for roadmap prioritization.
• Collaborate with highly skilled cross-functional teams (e.g., engineers, designers, marketers) to ideate, test, build and deliver the most valuable acquisition and retention levers for our customers.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators to objectively assess the impact and success of all feature/product launches.
• You must be able to consistently drive the strategic planning and vision of your products and initiatives.
• You must be able to ensure the timely execution and business operationalization of your product priorities for each initiative cycle (e.g., weekly, monthly, quarterly).
• You must be able to support your proposals and execution plan with data-driven insights.
• You must be able to create detailed product specifications and roadmaps for gaining business and technical alignment.
• You must be able to communicate your product vision to engineering and design teams to ensure the realization of the most seamless customer experience possible.
• You must be able to mentor and groom a team of junior and mid-level product managers.

Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (e.g., Business, Computer Science, Economics, Marketing)
• Minimum of 4-5 years end-to-end product management experience.
• Understanding of our back-end and front-end tech stacks
• Practical use of agile development methodologies.
• Proven experience managing mobile applications.
• Experience with reporting and analytics tools (e.g., MixPanel, PowerBI).
• Experience with product management and design tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, UXPin, Figma)
• Standard industry certifications are advantageous (e.g., SAFe Agile Product Owner, CSPO, PSPO, PMP, CBAP, etc) will be an added advantage