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Job Title:   Product Owner

Organisation: Educate!

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About the Company:

Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Requirements gathering: Translating Product strategy into product development specifics

• Gather all information from cross-functional teams to translate strategy into clear product specifics.
• Assist business stakeholders to define and refine their requests
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to define the relevant personas, user journeys, and functional requirements.
• Drive decision-making with internal partners
• Translate requirements into product designs
• Develop and own a product strategy that is clearly articulated, easily understood, and delivers meaningful value to our customers and business over time
• Identify areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently develop these modifications

User-focused/Customer-centered product design

• We need our Product Owner to build processes and practices to continuously gather and address usability issues with our technology products.
• Lead ideation for the needs identified- creating designs based on requirements and strategy
• Construct systems and processes to gather data on how users actually experience it on a day to day basis
• Own process of integrating customer feedback into products

Market Research and User Testing

• Research and analyze the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Plan, prepare and conduct research on potential solutions
• Collect quantitative product data and metrics through market research
• Testing and evaluating new designs/products
• Research and analyse the way our data can be used and then drive improvements in user experience

Project Management

• Build and execute an actionable roadmap that empowers developers to realize the product strategy
• Providing vision and direction to the development team and stakeholders to achieve the product vision
• Collaborate closely with Design, Programs, and M&E teams to drive the execution of the product development team
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Developer management: oversee development of product features either through external consultants or development
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
• Develop quality assurance procedures

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology is nice to have or any other Technology related course, and a minimum of 3 years of work experience.
• Possess a broad understanding of the tech product development process; and have created product roadmaps, user journey maps and has experience with backlog grooming and prioritization.
• Experienced with using qualitative and quantitative data (especially from A/B tests) to make product decisions.
• Experience working with a startup is a plus.
• Experience working with program delivery and data collection platforms such as USSD, SMS, WhatsApp through Telerivet, Echomobile, Textit, etc
• Basic knowledge of MySql & Postgres databases, JIRA or any other project management tool and Figma.
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here

How to Apply:

All candidates should apply online at the link below.

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