Product Owner at SafeBoda
- Company: SafeBoda
- Location: Uganda
- State: Uganda
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: Manufacturing Jobs in Uganda
Job Description
As a Product Owner at SafeBoda you will lead product development for one of SafeBoda’s business verticals. You are responsible for shaping the product roadmap, developing the product positioning, designing a product that customers will love and owning the growth strategy for the product. We are looking for an entrepreneurial and passionate person to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company.
What we are looking for:
• Have 4+ years of experience in product management, development and design, delivering highly successful and innovative products that customers love.
Have an understanding of software development and agile development methodologies.
• Focused on building businesses, not simply features. Entrepreneurial experience building and leading businesses, including ownership and optimization of business performance metrics.
• You are excited to become a master of our product, have great knowledge of our market, customers and competition.
Be emotionally intelligent, humble and excited to work with in a team with a diverse set of experiences, backgrounds, and skills.
• Possess strong data analysis skills. Be comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Exhibit the ability to navigate ambiguity, juggle multiple tasks, think independently and problem solve like a boss.
Strong undergraduate degree (or higher) with demonstrated strong academic performance.
• Excitement for SafeBoda and what we are trying to achieve.
Responsibilities:
• Lead all dimensions of product development for the SafeBoda applications: visioning, long-term roadmapping, daily prioritization, feature design, development, and user experience testing.
Be the champion of the product – make the tough calls. Support the development team and hold them accountable.
• Manage and lead a growing team and work with the CTO and Senior Leadership to steer product development.
• Oversee the product testing and iteration with a strong focus on user-centred-design. This means understanding the customer needs and being the voice of the customer.
• Communicating with stakeholders on the product, its development, performance, opportunities.
• Serve as customer and business proxy to the engineering team, communicating business vision, strategy and interests to the product and engineering teams.