Senior Product Manager
Job Description
You will start out reporting to the Group
Product Manager for Retention; that said M-KOPA is growing fast and the product
you own is likely to change eventually. This role is fully Remote
role, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3).
Key Responsibilities
- You will consult with your Group
PM to set clear and OKRs for your Group. You will manage your product and
available resources to achieve your OKRs.
- You must be committed to the
psychological safety of your team and all those around you
- You have a demonstrated
experience with a product approach that puts Discovery before Delivery and
early learning before a featured solution.
- You already to start new
products, solve new problems that haven’t been solved before, and to lead.
- You will have big ideas and you
will hear big ideas from our customers and leaders across M-KOPA. You will
focus the collaborative conversation onto the problem we have to solve and
arrive at a prioritized list of clear tests of the most important
hypotheses.
- You will lead Discovery with our
Design team to make sure we understand the problem we’re solving and
you’ll improve on the solutions from there based on data gathered from
testing hypotheses.
- You will work with market
research teams to understand user needs, define a vision for the product,
and advocate for the customer throughout the product lifecycle.
- You have a bias for looking first
in the data for answers and a tendency to monitor data dashboards for
insights daily.
- We’re looking for a captivating
story teller who can tell stories to our execs and senior leaders within
the business.
- You have a strong sense of UI/UX
design principles to help inform good product design choices in
collaboration with our Design team.
- Using agile product process, you
will write and move your user stories through refinement to meet our
definition of ready.
- You will collaborate with
engineering during the Delivery cycle to manage engineering constraints
when they arise, with a bias towards shipping valuable work each sprint,
learning, and iteratively improving based on data.
- You enjoy communicating visually.
You are comfortable refining wireframes and process maps to guide
Discovery.
- You lead by example, modeling
Product Management best practices for the product team and the business.
You are comfortable advocating for process improvements to clear the path
for you and others achieve your OKRs
Qualifications
- You have at least 4 years
experience in software product management
- Experience using data to lead
product decisioning
- Experience leading multi
functional teams
- Build winning teams who feel
understand the teams missions
- You like to improve and can
demonstrate taking the initiative
What’s In For You
- Great compensation package and
bonus scheme
- Private health insurance
(inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
- Group Life Cover
- Remote working #LI-Remote
- Airtime allowance (dependent on
the nature of the role)
- WIFI payment up to 5 Mbps monthly
(dependent on the nature of the role)
- 21 days per annum (excluding
public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of1.75 days per month
- Annual Learning and Development
Fund – You
have an annual $
1,200 allowance to spend on learning and development (that is,
between 1 January and 31 December). For your first year at M-KOPA, this
allowance is pro-rated depending on the month that you start.
- Home Office Set Up – Having the best IT
equipment tools in the world doesn’t make sense if you do not have a proper
setup to work with. For this reason, M-KOPA will pre-approve the following
items for a total budget of $1000 that you can use at any time after
signing the offer letter with M-KOPA (you may purchase desk and chair
separately or together; before or after your start date):
- 1. Ergonomic chair 2. Office desk
- On site retreats with wider tech team, plus
trips to operational markets
How to Apply
Diversity@M-KOPA
M-KOPA
is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling
a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with
disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
M-KOPA
does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment
requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing
fees’, ‘interview fees’ or any other kind of money in exchange for offer
letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.
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