Vacancy For Associate Product Manager at Zola Electric, 7th February, 2019

Zola Electric is the world’s first massively scalable off-grid electric company. It exists to provide affordable and reliable energy to communities that currently lack such power. The company utilizes distributed renewable energy to sell power as a service to customers who suffer from an expensive grid, an unreliable grid, or have no electrical grid access at all. We provide 24/7 clean energy to anyone, anywhere. Our aim is to deliver a complete technical, operational and financial model that makes incredibly high quality renewable electrical services affordable to millions of homes. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Associate Product Manager Location: Lagos Nigeria Job Responsibilities

• Prioritize requirements together with business stakeholders to ensure maximum impact
• Troubleshoot and address issues and questions during the development of the product
• Pro-actively communicate project progress to all stakeholders to convey timeframe of product feature release
• Participate in weekly team meetings to review the quarterly roadmap and make the necessary adjustments for dates and deliverables, as and when required
• Engage with external partners to deliver on software projects (retail partners, banking partners, etc.)
• Engage with Support Officer to ensure that software issues are addressed and support the analysis of software bugs
• Participate in Software prioritization and roadmap discussion with the software PM team
• Take responsibility for parts of the software roadmap and its delivery in time and budget
• Write out requirements and specifications for development, QA and data teams to execute on
• Produce documentation to manage stakeholder expectations on product goals, scope, and measures of success
• Define the collection of business metrics and methods of reporting
• Engage business stakeholders to co-design and refine specifications to ensure the right product is being built and plan sprints with development team

• Knowledge of product management best practice and tools
• Knowledge of user research, product design, product testing, experimentation, software engineering
• Knowledge of data collection, extraction and analysis
• Office environment, Local travel (project-based or annually) to support: project-based work and strategic planning with distributed software team members
• International travel (quarterly or more frequent) to support: research for software development, strategic initiatives with operations, software change management
• Relevant tertiary qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in related domain
• Experience in software product management or related function Minimum of 5 years’ experience
• Experience in software programming and data
• 2 years of experience in software product management or related function
• Knowledge of current software technologies