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  • Posted: Apr 12, 2019
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Babban Gona, which means "Great Farm" in the Hausa language, is a social enterprise organization that provides support for smallholder farmers in Nigeria to become more profitable. 


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    Product Manager

    Job Description

    • We are seeking for a passionate, inspiring, and results-oriented individual to lead the product team - i.e. a seasoned engineer with demonstrated experience in managing a worldclass design team to develop robust mobile and web applications.
    • The selected candidate will lead members of Babban Gona’s Product Development team and own technical delivery of projects.
    • This role is primarily aimed at Android development, however light web development and scripting will also be required.
    • The role reports to the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

    Responsibilities

    • Customer needs analysis and planning
    • Understand business needs and feedback from users to identify new opportunities
    • Collate documenting requirements, writing user stories, and creating feature specs
    • Define Product success measures that align with key organizational metrics
    • Establish self as a subject-matter expert on your products, best practices, competition and pay keen attention to latest industry trends
    • Drive qualitative and quantitative research, product analysis and market insights to inform your vision, strategy and roadmap
    • Rally and align designers, tech leads, analysts, data scientists and stakeholders around your plans

    Product roadmapping and optimization:

    • Define a product strategy and roadmap
    • Work closely with teams within the organization to align project priorities and build product adoption
    • Create and prioritize hypotheses, initiate user research and work with product analysts, data scientists, tech leads and UX researchers to understand user problems and verify ideas
    • Lead team throughout the design, build and launch of relevant products compatible with multiple platforms and operating systems, particularly mobile.
    • Support the development of appropriate tracking and reporting to resolve product performance
    • Track product performance, match against success metrics and report to relevant stakeholders
    • Build and continuously refine the delivery and opportunity validation backlog. Determine the metrics which measure our success
    • Conduct experiments and run A/B tests to understand which initiatives will have the most impact on success metrics you defined
    • Own all aspects of product lifecycle - strategy, requirements definition, design, forecasting, launch plans, testing, bug resolution and future enhancements

    Requirements

    • Bachelor's degree required (STEM subject field preferred)
    • A strong technical background by training or technical orientation by experience with previous software development or programming experience.
    • Comfort discussing deep technical topics with our development teams
    • 3 years of product management experience
    • Demonstrated leadership working effectively with design and engineering teams
    • Experience in data-driven product development and applying A/B testing, user research, conversion optimization, user testing, data analysis, competitor and market analysis in decision making
    • Leadership skills - you are able to inspire your team, build consensus, value teamwork and able to mentor
    • Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum)
    • Strong analytical skills with experience in setting key performance indicators, goal metrics and reporting
    • Proven, impeccable product sense and judgment when it comes to working with product designers
    • Intellectual and analytical curiosity - initiative to dig into the why, what & how
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Babban Gona on www.linkedin.com to apply

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