Technical Product Manager Job at BAO Systems

BAO Systems is changing how governments, NGOs and international agencies collect, analyze and report their data. Our platform as a service offering of DHIS 2 is modernizing how open source health information management systems are configured and deployed. BAO Systems is the largest US-based DHIS 2 consulting and hosting firm in North America. Since our founding in 2012, we have worked at a global scale to solve tough challenges faced by organizations across a variety of sectors, including health, education, sanitation, refugee assistance, and nutrition. We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Technical Product Manager Location: Abuja, Nigeria Job Type: Full Time Job Description

• BAO Systems is looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager to join our growing product development team in Abuja.
• As Product Manager you will help lead the strategic and technical direction for various products and solutions to improve workflows, data analytics/interpretation and management of resources.

You will:

• Be part of a cross-functional teams - support, services and UX design to gather input, understand customer needs and bring new products to market.
• Work closely with engineering to define project scope, provide detailed requirements and convert those requirements to actionable user stories.
• Assist the engineering team in validating the technical solution with internal and external stakeholders.
• Safeguard project stability by clearly managing expectations with stakeholders (external clients, internal project managers, etc)
• Shepherd products through various phases, from conception through follow-on maintenance and feature build out.
• Help shape and develop a compelling vision and roadmap for products that you manage
• Define and drive measurable metrics

You are:

• Fairly technical and a good understanding of modern web application technologies, standards and conventions (AWS, client-side programming, back-end)
• Passionate, yet have a strong analytic ability with desire to make data driven decisions
• Highly organized and fluent with product management and software tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Extremely comfortable managing and prioritizing sprints and prepared to handle unforeseen challenges that may arise.
• Thorough at creating documentation for all phases of a project, from gathering business requirements to translating those into technical requirements.

Requirements You have:

• 5+ years of Product Management experience
• BS degree in a technology-related field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years working with Jira; from project setup to daily management
• Experience developing products in a SaaS environment
• Technical chops, but also excellent soft skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of web standards and frameworks (HTML, CSS, JS)

Bonus

• Love of charts and data visualization, both custom solutions and off the shelf software such as Tableau and PowerBi
• Experience with internationalization as it relates to content and UI
• Experience working with International NGO’s and/or in the public health sector
• Familiarity working with and releasing open source software
• Understanding of DHIS 2 or other open source Health Information System projects