Product Manager at Emerging Talent

Emerging Talent is proud to be recruiting on behalf of a technology company that empowers distributors to make life-changing products accessible and affordable to individuals across emerging markets.

Due to continued growth, we are looking to hire a Product Manager to join the product development team which will address our end customers’ challenges.

The successful Product Manager will help identify the problems we need to solve, collaborate with the design team r to develop a well-defined set of functional and UI/UX project requirements, and collaborate with technical & non-technical stakeholders to bring the features to life:

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in business or a technical field (e.g. Computer Science)
• You have at least 3+ years of product management experience building B2B/enterprise web and mobile products. You’ve had successes and failures, and you can demonstrate what you’ve learned from each.
• You’re as excited about working at a mission-driven organization as you are about building game-changing products.
• You thrive in dynamic environments by managing expectations, communicating effectively in person and over e-mail, and walking a fine line between process enforcer vs. rebel
• Your stakeholder engagement skills allow you to effectively engage with both customers and co-workers (experience collaborating with international users is a plus!)
• You’ve operated within a data-driven product development process or can explain why you’d thrive in that environment. Data doesn’t trump everything, but it should be at least a starting point in the conversation.
• You’re not necessarily a UI/UX expert, but you can start to build a set of user experiences and basic wireframes that will delight and enable your users.

On a typical day, here’s what you could be working on:

• Engaging with customers to understand the forces and dynamics that shape their business: Why have they organized this way today?  How will that change several months from now? A year from now?
• Visiting agents in the field (e.g. Western Kenya) to uncover the unique challenges of Internet-based sales in areas with little/no connectivity
• Coordinating with other members of the Product team (in both San Francisco and Nairobi) to ensure the platform is evolving in line with our product vision
• Developing low fidelity wireframes in coordination with our Designer to collect stakeholder feedback
• Participating in roadmap prioritization discussions with key stakeholders in the company