Product Associate / Ed-tech at Rise Networks

Rise Networks is a Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Powered Learning, Research and Work Readiness Tech Academy & Lab based in Lagos, Nigeria. We are a leading social enterprise in the emerging technology space dedicated to the skills development for individuals, digital transformation of Organizations, especially young people and governance innovation in the Public Sector.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Associate / Ed-tech

Location: Lagos

Job Description
Our Ideal Product Associate should be able to:

• Provide a product vision, create a roadmap, and bring a product to life and must strive to understand the company’s technology at a deep level, actively search for any issues or problems, fix them and interact with the development team to lead the strategy for the product.
• Be the coordinator of the business side and the technical side of an organization and will be directly responsible for the success of the product and ensure that our ed-tech platforms fulfill their product offerings.
• Actively work with the engineering team to create and modify our ed-tech products to fulfill customer needs.
• Work with cross-functional teams in the design, development, marketing, selling, and support of our ed-tech product
• Possess the ability to work with project management software, coordinate beta tests of ed-tech products and define success criteria for testing and product acceptance.
• Able to assess emerging products and companies to measure our potential value or threat to our company and products, as well as make recommendations on which new technologies to invest leverage.
• Visualize technology solutions that address user needs and market opportunities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Uncover and understand customer needs and translate them into requirements.
• Create and manage product maps and ensure requirements are fully understood in a way that implementation plans match expectations.
• Understand, research, and follow technology trends in the industry whilst looking for gap(s).
• Integrating usability studies, research, and market analysis into our product requirements.
• Study competitors and conduct capability analysis regularly and provide internal and customer training on how to use the product.
• Serve as a product evangelist and subject matter expert to the technical/developer community and answer incoming questions about the product and its capabilities and assess and address technical risks.
• Ideating, prioritizing, and coordinating the development of innovative products.
• Understand and analyze data pipelines, algorithms, and automated systems.
• Defining and analyzing metrics that ensure the success of products and use database queries to analyze performance indicators, evaluate experiments, etc.
• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation and explore new ways of improving existing services and products
• Designing and implementing strategies to grow our user/customer base and coordinate product releases with marketing, sales, and development teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant knowledge in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 3 years+ of Industry Experience.
• Industry-standard experience in Total Product Maintenance (TPM), Scrum, technical PMS (Product Management Systems), and Agile systems.
• Industry-standard experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI Testing,
• Automated Testing, Test Driven Development Strategies, and others.
• Skilled with user interface, product management, and business process.
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and technical skills.
• A demonstration of curiosity, love for learning, creativity, execution, and speed.
• Readiness to face unpredictable situations and come up with the best solutions backed by data.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, adaptable and excellent learning agility.
• User-centricity, data-driven, extraction, analysis and an eye for design and experimentation.
• People skills, quick decision making and a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success.
• Critical thinking, problem-solving skills and good time-management skills.
• Great interpersonal, communication skills and passionate dedication to your craft and desire to work with people who inspire you on a daily basis.

Application Closing Date
17th February, 2023.