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Vacancy For Product Manager at Skoll Foundation


Skoll Foundation - We are now one of the leading foundations in the field of social entrepreneurship. Over the past 10 years, we have awarded more than $250 million, including investments in 85 remarkable social entrepreneurs and 70 organizations on five continents around the world who are creating a brighter future for underserved communities. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Product Manager Location: Lagos Job Descriptions

  • Babban Gona is seeking a passionate, inspiring, and results-oriented individual to lead the product team – i.e. a seasoned engineer with demonstrated experience in managing a world-class 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
  • 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
  • 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
Product road mapping and optimization:
  • 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
  • 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
Requirements
  • 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 with fluency in English
  • 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
  • 3 years of product management experience
Remuneration
  • Compensation and benefits are negotiable, based on the candidate’s prior experience.
    How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] Subject line should be "Job Title"