Zojatech Limited is a digital transformation consultancy and software development company that provides revolutionary and effective software solutions to businesses.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Position: Product Manager
Job Location: Lagos
Description
- Product Manager is responsible for defining and executing the product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
- The role oversees the full product lifecycle from ideation to launch ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions that drive growth and customer satisfaction.
- The position combines product ownership and Agile leadership by managing and prioritizing the product backlog, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing team impediments, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Acting as the key liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, the role ensures alignment, transparency, and effective cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams.
- Additionally, the role tracks product performance metrics, gathers customer and market insights, and continuously optimizes product offerings to maximize value delivery and business impact.
Responsibilties
Product Management & Strategy:
- Define and communicate a compelling product vision and strategy that aligns with company goals and customer needs.
- Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
- Conduct market research, customer interviews, and competitive analysis to gather insights and inform product decisions.
- Drive the product lifecycle from ideation through to delivery, ensuring timely and successful product launches and iterations.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders, including engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams, to ensure product alignment across the organization.
- Lead a product management team in which you motivate and achieve steady improvements in your area
- Identification and promotion of high potential and talents
- Participate and oversee all Product activities (Solution Architecting and Technology Sales) activities of the company.
- Participate and directs the teams in ensuring right and cost-effective solution is proposed to customers at every time.
- Directs the team to support sales in achieving company technology financial targets.
Scrum Master Responsibilities:
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives), ensuring the team remains focused and productive.
- Act as a servant leader to the Scrum team, fostering collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement within the team.
- Identify and remove obstacles that impede the team’s progress, ensuring they have what they need to succeed.
- Guide the team in embracing Agile principles, promoting self-organization and accountability.
- Track and report on team progress, ensuring sprints stay on track and goals are met.
Product Ownership:
- Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring clear and well-defined user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with stakeholders and the development team to refine requirements and clarify features.
- Continuously adjust the backlog based on feedback, evolving priorities, and data-driven insights.
- Make critical decisions regarding feature prioritization and scope during sprint cycles to maximize value delivery.
- Ensure that the product meets business requirements, customer expectations, and quality standards.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Serve as the key liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, ensuring alignment and transparency on goals and priorities.
- Work with product designers, engineers, and other cross-functional teams to drive timely and successful product releases.
- Communicate progress, milestones, and product performance to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
- Lead the planning and execution of go-to-market strategies, collaborating with marketing, sales, and customer support teams to ensure successful product adoption.
Performance & Continuous Improvement:
- Define and track key product performance metrics, including customer adoption, engagement, and retention.
- Collect and analyze customer feedback and performance data to identify areas for improvement.
- Continuously optimize the product based on data insights, customer needs, and market trends.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Scrum team and product management processes.
Job Specifications
Academic Qualifications, Professional Qualifications and Experience (Appendix 1)
Awareness:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in product management roles
- Good understanding of what is involved in an area of expertise and its relevance to the business.
- Strong understanding of product development and product management processes, methodologies, and tools.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong analytical skills and experience using data to drive decisionmaking.
- Strong project management and team management skills.
Relevant professional qualifications:
- Strong understanding of product development and product management processes, methodologies, and tools.
Dimensions
Skills & Competencies:
The competence proficiency levels required for the position of Product Manager are defined using the following key terms:
- Analytical thinking – Mastery
- Presentation Skills - Mastery
- Interpersonal skills - Mastery
- Communication – Mastery
- Business Skill - Mastery
- Functional Technical Leadership – Mastery
- Credibility - Mastery
- Adaptability- Skill
- Teamwork – Mastery
- Self-Motivation - Mastery:
Definition of competence levels is in Appendix 1:
- Ability to describe the main elements of the area of expertise and their importance to the business; and
- Ability to recognize how and where competences in expertise are relevant to their own job.
Knowledge:
- Ability to interpret and evaluate information and advice from experts in an area of Expertise.
- Knowledge and ability to correctly use the terminology (vocabulary) of the area of Expertise.
- Ability to hold an informed debate with experts in the Area of
- Expertise; and Ability to ask questions that test the viability of proposals in an Area of Expertise.
Skill:
- Ability to consistently carry out the activities of an area of
- Expertise to the required standard.
- Ability to perform satisfactorily majority of activities of the Area of Expertise.
- Ability to translate guidelines and standards for the Area of Expertise into practical actions.
- Ability to solve imaginatively common technical /operational problems in the Area of Expertise, and
- Ability to guide and advise others in operational /technical aspects of the Area of Expertise.
Mastery:
- Ability to diagnose and resolve significant, unusual problems and to successfully adapt aspects of an Area of Expertise.
- Ability to creatively solve significant, complex, non-routine problems in the Area of Expertise.
- Ability to adapt practices from other markets or countries for use in the Area of Expertise; and
- Ability to generate substantial improvements to local practices and procedures for the Area of Expertise.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Position as the subject of the email.
