JOB TITLE: Product Associate
JOB LOCATION: Victoria Island, Lagos
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
- Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
- Work closely with Tech teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
- Outline a product timeline and oversee the project’s successful execution.
- Create and manage budgets for the product.
- Develop clear user stories, detailed feature specifications, tasks, acceptance criteria and timelines
- Prioritize projects and ensure the most important work is being delivered
- Advocate for the product, offer insights, answer questions, and provide clarifications to ensure the vision is being executed
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
- Act as a key contributor to product design and the overall user experience
- Collaborate with a team of designers, writers, developers, quality assurance analysts and other subject matter experts
- Communicate project status updates to all key stakeholders
- Utilize project management software and ensure all required updates are documented effectively
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with team members across the organization
- Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
- Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process
- Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
- Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by the development teams
- Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
- Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
- Serve as the product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions related to the product
- Collaborate with stakeholders to craft vision and concept development of a product
- Drive product launches including working with M&C team, executives, and other product management team members
- Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services
- Determine the type of advertising and marketing content, such as TV, radio, print, digital or social media, that needs to be created and distributed.
- Develop and maintain relationships with external vendors whose products or services will be needed for the product.
- Other duties as assigned by the management.
Key Deliverables
Advertisements
- Define the product strategy and roadmap.
- Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product
- Perform product demos to customers
- Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
- Deliver a monthly revenue forecast
- Develop sales tools and collateral
- Propose an overall budget to ensure success
- Brief and train the sales force at monthly sales meetings
- Must be conversant with the following product stages:
- Idea generation (Ideation)
- Product definition.
- Prototyping.
- Initial design.
- Validation and testing.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree with 3 – 5 years work experience.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Deadline: July 31, 2022
Job Features
Job Category | Branding/Product/Image Management |