Technical Product Manager

At Dzooco, we are currently building an on-demand platform for Africa to host merchants, connect them with consumers and drivers in real-time.

Our product will empower local businesses and local drivers (called Valets) with economic opportunities to earn, work, and live. We are a small passionate team, dedicated to solving the underlying e-commerce problems in Africa. Our Mission is to strengthen, support and give small businesses in Africa a competitive advantage in the e-Commerce space.

Step up to the ambitious challenge of helping build the smartest application to help solve problems in some of the world’s most complex cities. As a Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for Delivery, acting as a Product Owner, driving day to day activities and will drive on-time and on-budget of delivery commitments

Be a Part Of a Team Where You Will be responsible for

•Strategic alignment: Define the Product vision, Product Strategy and Product Principle.

•Product Discovery: Collect, organize and prioritize product enhancements for maximum business/user impact. Define what needs to be built in line with the company’s objectives and product strategy.

•User Experience Enhancement:Translate user research and hypothesis testing into product requirements to enhance user experience.

•Product Review: Conduct regular user testing and analyses of products and services to ensure they are meeting user needs.

•Documentation: Occasionally create support and training documents for internal users.

You are skilled and have:

· Excellent communication skills to describe, educate and/or persuade both tech and business stakeholders

· Focus – on the key problem to be solved, and recommend building only the right thing

· Time management – Distinguish between urgent, and important, and know how to prioritize and plan your time

· Business skills – To work with company finance team, marketing team, sales, and executive management, and the language and concepts that these people deal with.

· Lead Build vs. buy decision-making

· User understanding – To empathize, listen, and co-create with the end customer and solve for an existing pain point or identify new pain points

· Technical & data comfort – around analysis, defining and interpreting dashboards and key insights, understanding or setting metrics/financial goals

· Problem solving to break down an ambiguous product/customer need and go about experimenting or iterating to find an appropriate solution

· Strategic thinking to create a plan and a story to explain what’s next while also taking into account the many moving parts across a team, product, or organization

· For at least three years, you’ve managed multiple tools for internal users and external customers

· Business background e.g. MBA, ex-consultant, or have up-skilled in some other way and can prove it

· You’ve worked with 3rd parties to integrate and scale internal platforms and services for continued organizational growth

· User Research and Product Discovery skills to quickly identify and advocate for the needs of our core customers and internal stakeholders

· Rolling out and monitoring the success of multiple digital products at the same time

· Experience in handling the pressure of fast-paced, startup environments where you wore multiple hats and used limited resources

· An empathetic, inclusive, and curious attitude

We are always looking for the best candidates, so if you think you would be a good fit even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements, we would love to hear from you!

Experience Our Dzooco Life Benefits

· Incentive Stock Options

· Fully remote working option

· Company SWAG (Stuff We All Get) Welcome Kit

· Company laptop (MacBook)

· Top-notch Health & Life Insurance

· 24/7 Legal Assistance – We understand that Our line of work is not widely acceptable/understood especially in the Country we operate in. With that in mind, we will be providing round the clock legal assistance in case of emergencies should any of our Employees be wrongly accosted.

· Employee Assistance Program – We have teamed up with a professional third-party agency for our Employees to receive free, confidential counselling & wellbeing support.

· Monthly Engagement Activities

· Monthly Rewards and Benefits

· Flexible time off (take the time you need) and a fully remote working working option (own your time)

· External learning budget