Posted on Mon 31st May, 2021 - hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)
Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose - to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Agile Software Project Manager
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Department: Product Development
Sector: Financial Services / FinTech
Reports to: Lead Project Manager
Summary
Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
As an Agile Project Manager at Paga, you will be responsible for coordinating the product development activities to guide a product development team through the agile product development processes employed by the team for successful, efficient delivery of projects.
You will also be responsible for tracking product delivery metrics and for much of the communication about the team activities with the rest of the organization and stakeholders.
To be an effective Agile Project Manager at Paga, you must:
Be able to shift easily between non-technical and technical perspectives and communicate effectively and persuasively with non-technical and technical-resources.
Be able to multitask very effectively and be comfortable juggling multiple product-development streams at once
Be fanatical about detail
Be comfortable with rapid change and be willing to take ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment
Have a passion for quality and an ability and willingness to grow the ability of others in your team to meet those standards
As a distributed product development team member, communication and collaboration are key. You will need to be excellent at utilizing remote communication tools and applying clear communication and collaboration practices to effectively engage with your “customers”, team mates and other company stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities:
Process execution and coaching - Owning the agile product development process for your team and continuously guiding all team members through the process effectively. Taking initiative to improve the process where appropriate
Strategic Engagement - Engage productively in strategic product-relation visions setting and strategic decision making. Take a leading role in consistently communicating business strategy with the team
Task and schedule management - Ensure that all projects are delivered per the iterative agile product development process while meeting expectations for timeliness, completeness and cost
Stakeholder communication – Maintain clear and transparent communication with stakeholder about the product development process and the status of product development efforts that concern them
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
Educational background, preferably in the fields of Software Project Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering / Physics
Bachelor's degree
Experience: 3+ years of software project management experience
Have good working knowledge of Scrum and Kanban agile development methodologies is a plus
Recognized agile project management certification is a plus.
Key Competencies:
Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
Excellent knowledge and/or experience executing successful Product Development methodologies with a software development team
Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
Strong working knowledge of productivity software such as MS Office