Maurice Xandra Solutions Limited - Our client, Africa's fastest-growing Enterprise Marketing Technology company, who aggregates and enrich difficult-to-source consumer data, generating measurable outcomes for telco’s, banks, and larger brands is looking for a competent individual to fill the position below:
Job Title: Vice President, Product Technology
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
The VP, Product Technology to help evangelise the company’s CDP to its potential customers, developing strong technical solutions that map to their business needs.
Responsibilities
Leveraging the company’s core technology platform, you’ll work with your teams and other teams across the organization to build our client’s CDP into compelling software that’s both powerful and easy to use.
Product Strategy, execution and product lifecycle management for multiple value propositions of the company’s suite of products
Leverage key strategic partnerships to identify and solve for the African market context specific nuances
Help establish OKRs for immediate product organization, establish / refine the existing execution mechanisms to better align with strategic goals
Drive engagement with product marketing, product, consulting and customer success on existing gaps, futures, and product strategies
Lead product development teams through coaching, empowering, hiring, and retaining talent.
Setting objectives for teams that help align product development with key goal metrics for the business
Identify new external partnership opportunities within each market vertical based on a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and our customer’s needs
Partnering with engineering, designers, and broader UX to build software that’s useful, useable, delightful, and solves real customer pain
Building strategic crawl, walk, run plans and align the appropriate implementation plan to put our customers on a victory path through value realization.
Knowledge and Skills Competence Requirements
B.A / B.S Degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience. An MBA degree is a plus
Experience in product marketing, business strategy or product strategy, ideally in a SaaS environment
Strong understanding of all facets of bringing a product to market, including market analysis, product-market fit, positioning strategy, MVP's, go-to-market strategy, pricing, testing, iterating based on feedback, etc.
Exceptional communication skills
Strong problem-solving and conceptual thinking skills
Ability to work cross-functionally across time zones, and in a team and/or matrixed environment
Ability to influence key stakeholders across regions
A strong history of relationship building and collaboration with Engineering organizations
Background in Advertising & Marketing Technology
Significant experience and knowledge of Customer data platforms, and Marketing Clouds.
Key Competences:
8+ years of experience as VP, Product or a similar role
World class product Management skills
Strong business and technical skills
Strategic Product vision
Entrepreneurial and data driven mindset
Excellent leadership and project management skills; preferably hands-on experience with delivery on OKRs)
Strong sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success
Ability to motivate and develop teams in a positive manner
Critical thinker but with a focus on solving the problems at hand
Commercially minded – able to dig into the business, understand drivers, engage and probe the teams on how to grow the business plus proffer ideas to that end
Multitask and manage competing priorities and deliver to strict time deadlines
Right balance between detail oriented and focus on the bigger picture
Equal opportunity employer:
Our client is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity inclusion. They do not discriminate on grounds of color, race, nationality, religion, age, ethnic origin, disability, gender, marital status, or sexual orientation in our employment practices.
Offer
Competitive package including participating in stock option plan and performance bonus.
Application Closing Date
20th October, 2021.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should kindly send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.