Publishing date: 11 April 2020
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Description: M-KOPA is seeking to hire a Product Manager who will be in charge of ensuring a smooth running and collaborations with global cross-functional teams to ensure a complete product development cycle from concept to commercial maturity.
Responsibilities:
- Work in a global cross-functional team with engineering, operations, finance and the commercial team through the complete product development cycle;
- Manage the process used to define a product's hardware and commercial features;
- Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations to pursue in future products;
- Collect customer and company requirements for future product development;
- Manage tradeoffs involving features, schedule, cost, pricing, line positioning and lifecycle management;
- Assist in development of new products;
- Develop and manage pilots for products at different levels of commercial maturity;
- Make pricing and forecasting recommendations to management and cross functional teams;
- Position the product in relation to other products and the competition;
- Work closely with the marketing team.