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  • Posted: Sep 14, 2022
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • The Rising Academy Network (also known as “RAN” or “Rising Academies”) is a growing network of inspiring schools in West Africa. Its mission is “to create schools that open doors and change lives.
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    Technical Product Manager (Remote)

    Description

    • We are seeking a Technical Product Manager with exceptional abilities to lead the envisioning, discovery, design, and development of engaging experiences for Students, Teachers, and Administrators.
    • The Technical Product Manager will be responsible for recognizing and articulating product problems or opportunities, defining target metrics, and creating well-formed epics or user stories for engineering teams, who can then design, build, release, and monitor technical solutions efficiently.
    • You will be the Technical Product Manager for the team ideating, road mapping, and bringing to life school services and solutions. Our goal is to accelerate student outcomes through intuitive and effective solutions to maximize time spent in teaching and learning.
    • This role requires product ownership of the product team(s) and leadership of cross-functional coordination for implementation while building trust across teams of engineers, business stakeholders, and customer-facing staff.


    The Technical Product Manager will:

    • Own the end-to-end product experience for a learner, teacher, school leader, and HQ staff of a school/school chain in low-connectivity settings
    • Lead the product team, working hand-in-hand with the engineering team building school services and solutions – primarily focused on.
    • Account for the created product(s), deliver the product model, and communicate the product needs with stakeholders.
    • Draft agile epics and stories, with prioritized features and specifications, while incorporating inputs from all stakeholders and ensuring release goals and commitments are understood by all affected teams.
    • Partner with Impact Team & Country Managers and Engineering Leadership to ensure a manageable scope delivered on time, budget, and quality.
    • Oversee the care and feeding of the platform, and ensure all aspects of the platform receive attention, including technical debt and infrastructure as well as new features.
    • Partner with the product leadership and business to develop a vision, strategy, and prioritized feature backlog for digital product(s)/platform.


    Requirements

    • 3 to 5 years of product management experience leading Agile-based, software product development teams.
    • Successful in leading and collaborating across teams of technologists and customer-facing teams located in different countries and time zones.
    • Capable of writing requirements for API-based solutions; enjoy collaborating closely with engineering.
    • Experience with product vision, design, user research, UX, product road mapping & development.
    • Experience with building product/market fit.
    • Experience with Asana or other project management tools.
    • Experience in JIRA, Scrum.
    • Experience in building products that work offline and with limited connectivity.
    • Experience with PWAs and Android mobile development.
    • Strong data analytics experience & using data to increase customer satisfaction & revenue.


    About You:

    • You have excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and organizational communication skills.
    • You can communicate with technical teams and business stakeholders in a multi-cultural environment, as well as clearly document software for these audiences.
    • You demonstrate people skills; must be able to collaborate effectively with diverse personalities and skill sets, and enjoy constructive conflict.
    • You have a strong track record of professionalism and trustworthiness.
    • You possess effective communication, relationship building, and teamwork skills.
    • You have a strong track record of managing engineers and developers by directly reporting to them.
    • You can take initiative and problem-solve when challenges arise.
    • You
    • You are comfortable working with senior leadership, reporting on data and outcomes.
    • You have a strong ability to keep a team on task.
    • You are willing to take risks, fail, learn, give and receive feedback, and try new approaches.
    • You are passionate about improving the quality of education across Africa.

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    Interested and qualified? Go to Rising Academy Ghana on apply.workable.com to apply

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