Emata is a spin-off of, and shares offices with, the SaaS company Laboremus Uganda. It is out of Laboremus’ expertise from working with financial technology in Uganda and abroad that the idea of Emata was born.

What you would do
• As a product assistant, your workday is filled with a wide varity of tasks. Concretely, your responsibilities include:
• Working closely with our product manager to coordinate the research, design, implementation and testing of new features and products
• Working closely with our engineering lead to prioritize, define and document the development of new features and products for execution
• Ensuring that the execution of our new features and product is on track and ready for our next release
• Contributing to defining product enhancements and strategy
• Being on top of task and resource management and spot (potential) blockers and risks
• Coordinating and performing user and functional testing on newly developed features.

Requirements
• We have some requirements you need to meet to join our team, so we know that you are most definitely one of us!
• A degree, preferably in a STEM field from an accredited university (Preferable, but not mandatory)
• Experience in technology, business, and/or design ideally in a software setting
• An understanding of agile software development methodologies
• Big picture thinker that can spot patterns among ambiguity
• Excellent ability to observe users
• Strong communication skills
• Well developed organizational skills
• A powerful growth mindset and fast learner