Founders Factory Africa (FFA) – We’re on a mission to power founders to go further, faster. We believe that by providing exceptional founders with capital, expert operational support and access to a global network of corporates, investors and entrepreneurs, founders can build and scale faster.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Product Manager (Isidore)
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description
What we’re looking for:
- In this role, you will play a key part in helping to shape the foundation of our product and working closely with our early-stage Engineering team to deliver an outstanding experience for customers.
- You will contribute to building the roadmap of a young and ambitious company. Working closely with the senior management of the company, this is an opportunity to drive product direction and take ownership of a big vision.
Responsibilities
- Set the vision for the Product based on an understanding of business and user needs, and working closely with the Founders.
- Work closely with stakeholders and a skilled team of cross-functional peers to define a roadmap that balances developing our Jinja product, meeting current business needs, managing technical debt, and unlocking new opportunities.
- Own the long term roadmap for your domain.
- Contribute a genuine passion and enthusiasm for your products and mission, and for solving your user’s needs.
- Demonstrate and help instil platform thinking and user-focused development practices across our development teams.
- Partner with development teams to deliver critical platform capabilities with speed and quality.
Qualifications
- You’re an experienced Product Manager (minimum of 4 years) with data-driven product development, strong product craft, and technical background, with previous experience building and setting vision for platform products.
- Must have experience with online marketplaces, preferably in AgTech/FoodTech but not mandatory.
- You have a genuine interest in building user centric platform products and solving complex problems.
- Highly collaborative and you thrive working in cross-functional teams.
- You have excellent leadership, relationship building and influencing skills.
- You are an excellent communicator and storyteller, communicating concepts and ideas to stakeholders at all levels, in different shapes depending on the context.
- Experience in crafting clear product requirements based on research, data and insights.
- You know how to inspire, motivate and support a team to get things done.
- You have a proven track record of developing and managing software products – marketplaces are a plus.
- You know how to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.
- Experience leading and working with agile development teams.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should: