Educate! Product Manager Jobs in Kenya

Educate! Product Manager Jobs in Kenya


Position Overview

  • Educate! an award winning non-profit social enterprise is seeking a Product Manager to join our ambitious and cross functional Technology team. We are looking for a product professional who is excited and passionate about solving consumer-facing problems, developing product roadmaps, and executing those plans to bring value to end users. The ideal hire will help the product team meet and exceed its goals by translating strategic business initiatives into technology products.

  • In this role you will have a chance to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to understand requirements for the tech products/solutions, develop product roadmaps and project-manage the entire tech product/solution development cycle.

  • The ideal hire is passionate about working with data to drive improvements in user experience and excited to work with simpler technology tools such as USSD, SMS, WhatsApp through Telerivet, Echomobile, Textit etc that are easily accessible to youths who don’t have access to smartphones. You’ll join a motivated, passionate, overachieving international team with a vision to design solutions that will impact millions of youth annually across Africa.

    You are the right fit for this role if you:

  • Are a master coordinator and exceptional project manager

  • Are analytical and data driven

  • Possess a broad understanding of the tech product development process

  • Have independently driven the design of technology products in a team, with a strong focus on the end user

  • Have strong communication and interpersonal skills

    Performance Objectives

    Requirements gathering: Translating Product strategy into product development specifics

  • Gather all information from cross-functional teams to translate strategy into clear product specifics.

  • Assist business stakeholders to define and refine their requests

  • Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to define the relevant personas, user journeys, and functional requirements.

  • Drive decision-making with internal partners

  • Translate requirements into product designs

  • Develop and own a product strategy that is clearly articulated, easily understood, and delivers meaningful value to our customers and business over time

  • Identify areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently develop these modifications

    User-focused/Customer-centered product design

    We need our Associate Product Manager to build processes and practices to continuously gather and address usability issues with our technology products.

  • Lead ideation for the needs identified- creating designs based
    on requirements and strategy

  • Construct systems and processes to gather data on how users actually experience it on a day to day basis

  • Own process of integrating customer feedback into products

    Market Research and User Testing

  • Research and analyze the users, and the roadmap for the product

  • Plan, prepare and conduct research on potential solutions

  • Collect quantitative product data and metrics through market research

  • Testing and evaluating new designs/products

  • Research and analyse the way our data can be used and then drive improvements in user experience

    Project Management

  • Build and execute an actionable roadmap that empowers developers to realize the product strategy

  • Providing vision and direction to the development team and stakeholders to achieve the product vision

  • Collaborate closely with Design, Programs, and M&E teams to drive the execution of the product development team

  • Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

  • Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities

  • Developer management: oversee development of product features either through external consultants or development

  • Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

  • Develop quality assurance procedures

    Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree, and a minimum of 3 years of work experience.

  • Possess a broad understanding of the tech product development process; and have created product roadmaps.

  • Experienced with using qualitative and quantitative data (especially from A/B tests) to make product decisions.

  • Experience working with program delivery and data collection platforms such as USSD, SMS, WhatsApp through Telerivet, Echomobile, Textit, etc

  • Preferred: Software Development experience e.g. USSD system development (PHP or other language), MySQL, server set-up, Python, JavaScript

  • Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below);

    How to Apply

  • For more information and job application details, see; Educate! Product Manager Jobs in Kenya




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