Project / Product Manager at TechAdvance

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to manage the products / projects, incumbent will partner with leadership, production and technical teams to develop product roadmaps and ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and go-to-market plans in partnership with business objectives
• Facilitate communication between Frontend and Backend development teams, DevOps Engineers, UI/UX Designers and clients
• Assist development team in removing blockers and getting questions answered
• Partner with engineers and designers to ideate, prioritize and deliver great solutions for our customers
• Document requirements as user stories and acceptance criteria in a scrum backlog or in traditional requirements formats
• Translate complex business problems into easily digestible narratives
• Participate in the development process by providing just in time feedback and clarification to developers regarding requirements contained in the current development sprint
• Align on key business goals and customer needs for each product initiative and provide strategic product direction
• Partner with executive-level stakeholders and the development team to define, deliver, and advance the product roadmap.
• Leverage analytics, surveys, competitive analysis, and user interviews to identify areas of opportunity or improvement.

Specifications & Requirements
The ideal candidate must be:

• Creative thinker and problem solver who can partner with all stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of products according to its roadmap
• A self-starter and self-motivated person who is able to Influence the product team and cross-functional teams to ensure successful outcomes of products and projects
• Passionate about innovation and result oriented

 The Ideal Candidate must have:

• Minimum 5 years work product/project management experience with a FinTech
• Strong track record of work-based success with tangible achievements
• Experience with the full life cycle of Machine Learning development – creating and following statistical experiments, deduction and code actualization
• Ability to plan a project, gather the resources through and see it through to completion
• Good judgment in making something people love so much that they tell their friends.
• Excellent communications skills; ability to develop and make presentations to an executive leadership audience.