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  • Posted: Mar 12, 2021
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    Gokada is a technology company focused on changing the face of transportation in Nigeria starting with an on-demand motorcycle taxi service in order to solve some of the country’s most challenging problems in logistics and transportation. We aim to help millions of passengers across the country rethink how they move by providing a safe and affordable e...
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    Vice President of Operations

    Job Dimensions

    • The VP of Operations is one of the most important roles for Gokada and should supervise the functioning of all departments, working to provide conceptual and practical guidance to figureheads across the organization.
    • You should also ensure that our values remain aligned with trends in consumers' behavior to maintain longevity.

    The Challenge

    • Given the current Lagos market, traffic remains one of the biggest challenges.  The city needs innovative projects to curb traffic, provide safer and better services, and make people lives easier.

    The Team

    • You’ll be joining a team of highly motivated and vibrant professionals that believe in collaboration, passionate about excellence and results.
    • You’ll learn about the Gokada way, our values, learn from our team, management, while also sharing your own best practices and your own style.
    • You'll get to know our quirks and how we celebrate and value everyone's personality on our team and organization as a whole.

    Objectives of the Role:

    • Collaborate with the CEO in setting and driving organizational vision, operational strategy, and hiring needs
    • Translate strategy into actionable goals for performance and growth helping to implement organization-wide goal setting, performance management, and annual operating planning
    • Oversee company operations and employee productivity, building a highly inclusive culture ensuring team members thrive and organizational outcomes are met
    • Ensure effective recruiting, onboarding, professional development, performance management, and retention
    • Adhere to company, federal, state, and local business requirements, enforcing compliance and taking action when necessary

    Responsibilities

    • Analyze internal operations and identify areas of process enhancement
    • Develop actionable business strategies and plans that ensure alignment with short-term and long-term objectives developed in tandem with the CEO
    • Directly oversee operations, HR, and accounting, and partner with the CEO on sales management to budget for sufficient investment capital to achieve growth targets over the near term
    • Aggressively manage capital investment and expenses to ensure the company achieves investor targets relative to growth and profitability
    • Monitor performance with tracking and establish corrective measures as needed, and prepare detailed reports, both current and forecasting
    • Maintain and build trusted relationships with key customers, clients, partners, and stakeholders

    Requirements

    • Entrepreneurial mindset with proven experience starting and growing projects or enterprises
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective and efficient communication.
    • Data-driven decision making mindset and solid analytical skills for problem-solving.
    • Excellent managerial and organizational skills which involve multitasking and rapt attention to details.
    • Creativity and enthusiasm for building something innovative and impactful
    • Good knowledge of financial models.
    • Interest in a company’s growth and self-development.
    • Leadership skills, with steadfast resolve and personal integrity
    • Understanding of advanced business planning and regulatory issues
    • Be able to diagnose problems quickly and have foresight into potential issues

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    Vice President (VP) of Product

    Job Description

    • We are looking for a VP OF PRODUCT who will be responsible for leading and facilitating the creation of all of the company’s products going forward as the company grows from a “Series-A funded” company and strives to become Africa’s largest technology “unicorn”.
    • The VP OF PRODUCT will play an instrumental role in this growth, working directly with Gokada’s CEO and Board of Directors. The VP OF PRODUCT will be someone who has previously achieved the level of at least Product Manager at another world-class internet company, and who is excited to take the next step in their career by building and leading a new product organization.
    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be a strategic leader, a visionary, a capable manager, and an enthusiastic advocate of Gokada’s products, brand, and ecosystem value-add. The VP OF PRODUCT will also need to be someone who can roll up their sleeves and get things done in a fast-paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial startup, and someone who is excited by the prospect of building a product organization from the ground-up.
    • The job location of this role is flexible, but candidates not located in Nigeria must have a demonstrable ability to lead remote teams as well as a willingness to regularly travel to Nigeria.

    Key Responsibilities
    Gokada’s VP OF PRODUCT will be one of the most senior executives in the company, interacting directly with the company’s CEO and Board of Directors. They will be in charge of a broad scope of product-related activities, including:

    Product Strategy:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for further developing Gokada’s product strategy in a way that is aligned with the company’s vision, mission, and business objectives.
    • This will include defining the company’s product strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of all of the company’s products.

    Product Design:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for designing the company’s products across all verticals, leading and interfacing with Gokada’s design and user experience teams.

    Product Development:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for the entire product development process for all of the company’s products, leading and interfacing with Gokada’s engineering and software development teams.

    Product Growth and Marketing:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for managing the product growth and marketing of the company’s products, leading and interfacing with Gokada’s marketing team.

    Product Data Gathering and Analysis:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for ensuring that the relevant metrics are gathered for each product and that these metrics are continuously analyzed to facilitate product improvement.
    • As part of this, the VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for gathering and interpreting feedback from users of the company’s products in order to assist with design and strategy decisions.

    Structuring, Growing, and Managing the Product Organization:

    • Gokada is a young company that is growing rapidly. The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for structuring the company’s product, design, engineering, and product marketing teams, and will be ultimately responsible for growing these teams and interviewing, recruiting, hiring, and supervising all employees within those teams.

    Job Requirements
    Given the senior nature of this role and the above responsibilities, as well as the startup / entrepreneurial stage of the company, a strong VP OF PRODUCT candidate must possess the following skills and traits:

    World Class Product Management Skills:

    • Exposure to world-class product management practices, with at least 5 years of experience working in a world-class software product organization, reaching the level of at least Product Manager.
    • The VP OF PRODUCT must be proficient in the use of computer software such as Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Visio, and Photoshop, and product management and prototyping tools such as Asana, Confluence, and Figma.
    • The VP OF PRODUCT must be also be proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) in order to create documents, analyses and content for presentations made to the business’s stakeholders, external business partners, collaborating department personnel, junior product management personnel, and consumers.

    Strong Business and Technology Skills:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for translating Gokada’s business objectives into a product roadmap, and will be responsible for leading various functions including design, engineering, and product marketing.
    • As such, successful candidates will have diverse professional experience that demonstrates their strong business acumen (Undergraduate or graduate Business Degrees are a plus), solid understanding of software development and technology (programming skills are a plus), and a fluency with product marketing and growth strategies.

    Entrepreneurial Mindset:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be joining a young, fast-growing, Series-A funded company.
    • They will need to be able to roll up their sleeves and get things done without relying on extensive infrastructure and support.
    • Rather, they will be tasked with building, growing, supervising and overseeing the entire product organization, including design, engineering, and product marketing functions.
    • This is a unique opportunity to build an entire product organization, and therefore a successful VP OF PRODUCT candidate will be the type of person who enjoys getting things done and building new things.

    Strategic Product Vision:

    • The VP OF PRODUCT will be responsible for the “why” of the product and what to build next.
    • They must then align the company around their overarching vision and must ensure individual features and products are in line with business objectives, making adjustments when necessary.

    A Data-driven Mindset:

    • As the leader of product, the VP OF PRODUCT must make objective, data-driven decisions.
    • A strong VP OF PRODUCT candidate will be able to define the metrics related to product performance and track them on an ongoing basis, such as:
      • Revenue and profits
      • User activity and engagement within the product * Churn rate and retention

    Strong Empathy for Emerging Market Customers:

    • Gokada operates in Africa, where issues like payments and logistics are complex.
    • A successful VP OF PRODUCT candidate will have meaningful exposure to Emerging Markets issues (Nigeria / Africa is preferable) through prior professional or personal experiences.
    • This experience must be of the sort that enables the VP OF PRODUCT to strongly empathize with the problems, needs, and desires of Gokada’s customers, and to be able to channel this empathy into customer discovery efforts and into ultimately building the right product experiences for Gokada’s customers.

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