Senior Product Manager, Ed Tech
- Full-time
Company Description
Co-Creation Hub is Africa’s leading technology innovation ecosystem builder on a mission to accelerate the application of science, technology and social capital for economic prosperity across Africa.
Our mandate is to build a formidable innovation ecosystem with a deeply rooted network, cultivating strategic partnerships and practical industry know-how that can support entrepreneurs and innovators in building thoughtful, relevant and scalable solutions. From our locations in Lagos, Abuja, Ijebu Ode (in Nigeria), Nairobi (Kenya) and Kigali (Rwanda), we have built a vibrant community of over 81,000 people and counting and have supported to a portfolio of over 120 early-stage ventures including Lifebank, Ushahidi, Riby, BudgIT, Stutern, Kopo Kopo, Sendy, mFarm, Wecyclers and many more.
If working with some of the brightest minds on the continent to co-create solutions for African prosperity sounds exciting to you, then this is for you.
Job Description
- Work closely with a number of Edtech Startups to understand their customer needs and gather product requirements.
- Lead the development of the product roadmap of the Edtech startups through conducting user research, analyzing the competitive environment, and understanding key product metrics.
- Work closely with the engineering team and User Interface and User Experience(UI/UX) team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule for the Edtech ideas.
- Work closely with the design team to create wireframes and write requirements/specifications for all product features that are new or already existing products features that need improvement.
- Build and document product use cases and scenarios
- Build backlogs of capabilities
- Help track the development of the products
- Display sound product judgment and present clear, measurable objectives that will lead to achieving business goals and social impacts for the Edtech products
- Support in measuring market trends and identifying solutions to support product development and iteration.
- Build Edtech Product Evaluation Toolkit Contextualized for the African Education Ecosystem
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product management (ideally in Edtech and generally in Software/Web Platforms as a Service Domain).
- A strong blend of technical and social impact background.
- Passion for design and user experience with evidence of ability to convey a product vision.
- Experience managing the product development process from Ideation to Scale.
- Ability to use clear examples through great communication to advice Edtech startup founders on Product Strategy
- A Human-Centered Design Approach to designing and building Edtech product
Additional Information
Please note this is an onsite role