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Location: Ikeja, Lagos Job Description
We are looking for a hands-on Product & Platform Manager – commercial and operations with deep enterprise platform expertise to achieve and deliver Venture Garden Group’s Platform Hold Co status.
This is an exciting period of rapid growth for the company as we are transitioning from a product focused company to a platform-oriented company where our strategic business units can plug into data analytics and a payment platform, subsequently rolling out to companies within the VGG ecosystem and outside.
This person should have a wealth of experience in product operations, product and technology strategy, and has a command of scalable architectures. This person thrives in ambiguity and is adept at shepherding value through the organization and into the market.
Principal Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Develop a team of product managers.
Product thought leader on the platform including requirements, prioritization, and the roadmap
Synthesizing market needs into product requirements and driving alignment with leadership on prioritization for the roadmap
Leading design sprints and other cross-functional exercises to explore product opportunities
Owning the product roadmap within a product line, and executing with cross-functional teams to deliver on it
Collaborating with Marketing, Technology, and Engineering groups to develop and drive product strategy for a product line while ensuring alignment with greater business goals and objectives
Articulating a compelling product vision and inspiring cross-functional teams to rally around it
Systematizing and scaling product processes within the Product team and across the organization
Mentoring and fostering the development of best practices within the Product Management team
Working across the organization to partner with and support various stakeholders key to delivering product
Enabling customer-facing teams with product knowledge and direction
Engaging with customers and lending product thought leadership in support of further product development, customer success, and BD activities
Owning and managing the product backlog including writing stories, mitigating risk, prioritizing effectively, and unblocking the team
Enabling highest-leverage work for yourself and others
Supporting customer audits as a Product SME
Qualifications Essential Competencies:
Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.
Led multi-disciplinary teams
Product management of B2B SAAS enterprise platforms
Excels at systems-level thinking
Analytical and data-driven
Comfort with a fast-paced environment and ambiguity
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Extreme focus on detail
Collaborative work style
Demonstrates initiative and results driven
Customer and user-centric
5+ years’ experience in product management
Experience in FinTech infrastructure is a plus.
Experience in telephony/Telco Infrastructure is a plus.
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent Communication
Execution Focused
Decision Making
Flexibility
Interpersonal Skills
Leadership
Working conditions
Flexibility is important.
Equal opportunity
The role is open to anyone who meets the above criteria regardless of race or nationality
Remuneration Competitive based on experience.
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