Sokowatch is transforming communities across Africa by
revolutionizing access to essential goods and services.
We’re looking to grow our team with highly talented and
motivated employees who are excited to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup
environment.
Sokowatch is seeking a data-driven highly-technical product
professional with 5+ years of experience managing success of software &
hardware products through experiments, established tools, and working with
cross-functional teams to deliver one or more product lines for users that
increase efficiency, automation and customer happiness.
Sokowatch’s products and systems
currently cover a variety of different functional areas:
- Warehousing
- Dispatch & Fleet
- Growth & Marketing
- Financial Services
- Merchants
- Suppliers
Location: This role may be based out of any
one of our following major offices:
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Kampala, Uganda
- Kigali, Rwanda
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop a product vision & roadmap to
transform the Sokowatch product set
- Manage all product development efforts
including interviewing teams, analysing the automation opportunities,
presenting recommendations to senior leadership and supporting
integration, training and measuring of automation outputs
- Ensure existing hardware and intellectual
properties from current business functions are being assessed and
repurposed to drive improvement and accountability, and create business
value
- Advise senior leadership on world-class
operational and digital procedures for running our important business
functions, including the co-creation of a delightful innovative
environment
- Co-develop predictable processes, data models,
execution plans and support tools for teams
- Represent the business teams in the product
cycle, and lead prioritization of clear use cases and communication of the
product strategy
- Maintain a self-help knowledge base and
appropriate communication tools for staff for discussing and documenting
new issues and their solutions
- Support adoption of new processes for business
teams by using data and agile tools like sprint trackers
- Review and give feedback on features being
built by engineers
- Manage innovation budget and opportunities to
implement open-source and other plug and play software tools with clear
cost-benefit analyses to preserve engineering resources
Requirements:
- Technical knowledge of coding languages
including Java, XML, and SQL, or automation tools like Google Scripts,
IFTTT, Zapier.
- Degree, certification or demonstrable impact
in Product Management, IT, Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of experience with product management
or building products with immense traction
- Epic communication skills and empathy for
technical and operational staff in order be the bridge between them
- Passion and drive for solving problems,
building, planning and designing tools for teams to thrive
- Demonstrated ability to work in a
self-directed manner, seeking out areas that need attention, rather than
being asked to look at specific problem areas.
- Consistently asks for help and seeks advice
from colleagues to let the best idea or process win
- Ability to grow and maintain a current network
of hardware, software and support providers
- Entrepreneurial drive, and proven ability to
take ownership, and lead the team’s combined learning
- Naturally curious and constantly improving
How to Apply
Send your updated CV to careers@sokowatch.com clearly indicating ‘Senior Product Manager’ on the subject
line by 15th May, 2020.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
