Irembo is a technology company that designs and develops digital products focused on users in Africa, starting with Rwanda. IremboGov, Irembo’s pioneer product, is a government services platform. To date, it has 8M+ users in Rwanda and offers 98 services online. We are using this experience to develop a wide range of products that will transform the tech ecosystem as we know it.
As a Senior Product Manager at Irembo, you will be a key interface between various user groups and our product design and engineering team. Product Managers at Irembo help to innovate and execute product initiatives across the company. You’ll actively drive the roadmap, strategic themes, and features ensuring the best user experience for all users of our products; internal and external.
What you will do:
• Lead the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative products.
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• Collaborate across the organization to establish shared product vision by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution.
• Manage and mentor a team of product managers while leading the product function. Build out a solid roadmap with rich technical capabilities that deliver great user experiences and drive ROI for Irembo.
• Define and refine product and engineering roadmaps and work collaboratively with the product design and engineering teams to deliver.
• Write and publish clear specs for the team to use during the development cycle. Write and run thorough test cases to ensure all use cases and edge cases are covered.
• Define product metrics to track and derive value and insights from them.
• Use Irembo’s vast accumulated data to deeply understand user behavior and drive meaningful product improvements.
• Identify market opportunities, build business cases, and define product vision and strategy.
• Lead the release planning of products through cross-functional teams such as Partnerships, Communications, Public Relations and Delivery Management.
• Evaluate and conduct interviews for candidates in our hiring pipeline.
• Any other tasks that will be assigned.
You will be a good fit if:
• You are innovative and relentlessly user-focused.
• You care about building great products that matter and make a difference.
• You are able to lead and hold colleagues accountable for key deliverables.
• You have an ability to learn new domains and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You have a mindset of continuous improvement.
• You are self-directed with a can do attitude. You are able to roll your sleeves up and do what needs doing.
• You can identify and reduce complexity.
• You search for better solutions, and then make them even better. You use data to guide your intuition.
• You ask the right questions to get to the right answers.
• You are detail oriented and know that innovation is also in the small issues that users face.
• Strong understanding of progressive company cultures and knowledge of industry best practices.
• You are open minded; can listen and are assertive; can firmly share your perspective.
• You have strong organizational, analytical and problem solving skills.
• You have experience with product design.
• You are able to share complex thought simply, either on paper, in presentation or in person.
• You have 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering or Technology strategy.
• You have a B.S. or MS in Computer Science, Data Science or related field.
Deadline for Applications: 15th November 2019