Vacancy For Associate Product Manager at Zola Electric, 7th February, 2019

Zola Electric is the world’s first massively scalable off-grid electric company. It exists to provide affordable and reliable energy to communities that currently lack such power. The company utilizes distributed renewable energy to sell power as a service to customers who suffer from an expensive grid, an unreliable grid, or have no electrical grid access at all. We provide 24/7 clean energy to anyone, anywhere. Our aim is to deliver a complete technical, operational and financial model that makes incredibly high quality renewable electrical services affordable to millions of homes. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Associate Product Manager Location: Lagos Nigeria Job Responsibilities

Prioritize requirements together with business stakeholders to ensure maximum impact
Troubleshoot and address issues and questions during the development of the product
Pro-actively communicate project progress to all stakeholders to convey timeframe of product feature release
Participate in weekly team meetings to review the quarterly roadmap and make the necessary adjustments for dates and deliverables, as and when required
Engage with external partners to deliver on software projects (retail partners, banking partners, etc.)
Engage with Support Officer to ensure that software issues are addressed and support the analysis of software bugs
Participate in Software prioritization and roadmap discussion with the software PM team
Take responsibility for parts of the software roadmap and its delivery in time and budget
Write out requirements and specifications for development, QA and data teams to execute on
Produce documentation to manage stakeholder expectations on product goals, scope, and measures of success
Define the collection of business metrics and methods of reporting
Engage business stakeholders to co-design and refine specifications to ensure the right product is being built and plan sprints with development team

Requirements

Knowledge of product management best practice and tools
Knowledge of user research, product design, product testing, experimentation, software engineering
Knowledge of data collection, extraction and analysis
Office environment, Local travel (project-based or annually) to support: project-based work and strategic planning with distributed software team members
International travel (quarterly or more frequent) to support: research for software development, strategic initiatives with operations, software change management
Relevant tertiary qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in related domain
Experience in software product management or related function Minimum of 5 years’ experience
Experience in software programming and data
2 years of experience in software product management or related function
Knowledge of current software technologies