Product Manager at MicroEnsure

Product Manager Job Responsibilities:

• Act as the General Manager with full profit and loss responsibility for all products in their portfolio.
• Own the product through every stage of the product lifecycle.
• Cross functional leadership and advocacy for their product portfolio throughout the organization. Manage
• cross-functional teams, without direct authority over those teams.
• Drive and report on appropriate metrics and KPIs related to their portfolio.
• Build and train a team of competent staff needed to run each product effectively, if necessary.
• Project manage their portfolio of products in the product development pipeline.
• Develop and maintain appropriate Gantt charts, data sets, task management, and other documentation required for effective project management.
  Leverage robust market research to act as the voice of the customer in the product development process. The .
• Responsible for transitioning products from hundreds of customers, to thousands, to millions. Actively think about scale with all product development and the processes, staffing, and technology that will enable scale.
• Research and test multiple approaches to achieve operational efficiency and establish and document best practices.
• Own the operationalization of new products as they transition into the existing organization, where appropriate.
• Use data to support decision-making for product features, marketing materials, pricing, and other areas as needed.
• Manage data collection for product tests/experiments and ongoing KPI monitoring
• Conduct basic data analyses to provide supporting evidence for decision-making.
• Responsible for driving Admin, Legal and Accounting for their product portfolio.
• Provide MicroEnsure’s Legal and Accounting teams with the information and documentation necessary to advance product implementation, tracking all outstanding requests and following up regularly as needed.
• Help determine budget and cashflow estimates for product pilots, including marketing, staffing, technology, and ongoing management budgets.
• Authorise payments to local 3rd party providers and coordinate with local MicroEnsure accounting staff to track expenditures.