Senior Product Manager at CeedCap

CeedCap is a startup studio and an early-stage investment management group. The company provides venture building, private equity, strategic advisory, and corporate innovation services to the technology-enabled sector.

Operating as a bridge between Africa’s digital economy and the international VC investment, CeedCap connects people, capital, and ideas to accelerate innovation and provide value to portfolio companies, limited partners (LP) and the connected world.

Profile

An exciting and varied position, the Senior Product Manager will lead the product team to define, build and launch mission critical initiatives that have a direct impact on the company’s bottom line. You will use research and data to define strategy for our products, and follow product development from start to finish.

To succeed in this role, you should be a perceptive and creative leader, a reliable problem-solver and a world class executor. If you’re also confident and positive, high-energy, cultured, and have a knack for knowing what ideas will and won’t work, we’d like to meet you.

Job Purpose:

• Develop and implement product strategies consistent with CeedCap’s vision
• Work with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps
• Own and lead all aspects of an established agile team; writing user stories and acceptance criteria, backlog grooming, triage and prioritization, demos, end to end product execution, cross-functional leadership.
• Communicate product directions, delivery, launch, and mitigation plans to all relevanat team members and business stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain credibility within the business, and our users.
• Conduct user research and data analysis to assess opportunities, risks, and business plans.
• Set adoption targets and continously analyze data to assess the success of a product and inform product direction.
• Collect and anaalyze feedback from stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products.
• Lead product managers and coordinate cross-functional teams
• Produce and review product requirement documents(PRD)
• Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
• Make creative recommendations to expand product base vision
• Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users
• Measure product performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, writing scope and within budget
• Develop a detailed product plan to track progress
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive product documentation
• Report and escalate to management as needed

Requirements:

• 6+ years of proven experience as a Product Manager or similar role in product management or as a technical founder in a fast-growing tech B2C startup company. FinTech is a plus. Focus on emerging markets is a plus.
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Technical fluency; you don’t have to be an engineer, but you do need to speak the language
• A problem solver with a data-driven and KPI-oriented approach to maximize the efficiency of all product operations, using relevant tools.
• Detail oriented and a high bar for quality when it comes to writing stories, acceptance criteria, launch plans, and testing a feature before greenlighting it to launch to users.
• Ability to build wireframes and mockups, with a knack for keeping things simple
• Strong project management skills with the ability to identify and communicate blockers, next steps, and progress.
• Strong analytical skills and fluency with data, with the ability to use a variety of tools to gather and synthesize information.
• Organizational and leadershp abilities
• Excellent communication, creative thinking and problem solving skills
• Strong working knowledge of Google Tools
• Experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Slack
• An entrepreneurial mindet and commitment to get hands dirty at all times
• Consensus-builder; develops relationships across the company with ease
• Humble and willing to learn/grow. We need confident and capable PMs who wants to help each other succeed as much as they want to help our talent succeed.

Diversity statement

• We are working hard to create a representative, inclusive, and super-friendly team because we know that different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds make for a better workplace. And that creates a better experience for our customers. CeedCap doesn’t discriminate based on race, color, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

Benefits:

Compensation: Base Salary + Benefit