Product Owner job at Educate
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Vacancy title:
Product Owner

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Education, and Training , Category: Management ]

Jobs at:

Educate

Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, February 23 2025 

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Kampala, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, February 02 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Performance Objectives
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
• 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



Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


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Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 23 February 2025
Duty Station: Kampala
Posted: 02-02-2025
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 02-02-2025
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 02-02-2068
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