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Job Title:   Head of Product

Organisation: SafeBoda

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Salary: $35k – $50k

About US:

Motorcycle taxis are immensely popular and serve as the lifeblood of many cities in Africa, but they are extremely unsafe and disorganized. At the click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first transportation platform for Africa’s booming young population. On the high-frequency use of our transportation service, SafeBoda is providing value to consumers, our drivers, and passengers, with additional financial services, payments, and other on-demand services such as food and grocery delivery to keep Africa moving forward.

Job Summary:   As the Head of Product you will lead product development at SafeBoda. You will work with senior management to craft the product roadmap and set product direction. You will lead a team of product managers ensuring each vertical has a coherent strategy that is aligned with business objectives and you will ensure that all features are fully scoped and detailed before implementation by the engineering team. You will lead on customer discovery, ensuring that we are collecting feedback in a structured and timely manner. We are looking for an entrepreneurial and passionate person to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company.

Key Duties and 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-centered 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.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Have 8+ years of experience in product management, development and design, delivering highly successful and innovative products that customers love.
• Experience crafting and delivering a product roadmap in a fast-paced environment with continually evolving business objectives and implementation constraints.
• Understand software development, agile development methodologies and how a product team can enable the engineering team to maximize output.
• Experience collecting, analyzing and iterating using quantitative and qualitative customer data. You should love chatting with users and attaining insights to build a better product.
• Be emotionally intelligent, humble and excited to work within a team with a diverse set of experiences, backgrounds, and skills.
• 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.

How to Apply:

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