Recruitment for Product Manager at DevRecruit

Application Closing Date
24th January, 2022.

DevRecruit, an IT recruitment firm, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Lagos

The Role

• As a Product Manager, you will take ownership of your team’s product roadmap and manage the end to end delivery of new features.
• To be successful you’ll collaborate with a talented team of engineering, commercial, and of course product colleagues.
• You’ll also become an expert on customers, by analysing data, curating feedback across multiple channels, and by speaking directly to customers.
• You will enjoy this role if you care about helping small businesses succeed, you enjoy creating innovative technology, and you want to see ideas quickly shipped into production.

Key Accountabilities

• Own the product roadmap for your team, and be responsible for setting priorities, backed up by data and customer feedback
• Be the voice of your customers, and ensure a high-quality customer experience
• Work closely with software engineers and turn requirements into wireframes, specifications and user stories
• Work with stakeholders across the business to identify new opportunities and help them understand how technology can better achieve their goals
• Manage the end-to-end delivery cycle of product features, including roll-out to customers and across the internal team

Key Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree
• 5 years plus product management experience, ideally in B2B/B2C and within multiple sectors
• Proven project management and communication skills, ideally working in a fast-paced/start-up environment
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to leadership
• You’ll have experience building solutions for end customers and managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Collecting and analysing feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to create a roadmap and deliver on it
• Managing all lifecycle stages for a product from ideation through sunset, ensuring that deliverables are understood, releases are delivered on time, and users are engaged
• Ideation of creative features/capabilities that push the boundaries
• Developing and maintaining an understanding of the company’s products, market, and competition
• Developing product positioning and go to market strategy
• Keeping abreast of the goings-on in the industry
• UX design
• Analytical skills will also be viewed as a plus, especially in understanding data (e.g. Excel, R, Python, SQL)
• Prior experience using Agile methodologies such as Scrum.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: daniella@devcenter.africa with the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only suitable candidates will be selected and contacted.