Associate Product Manager at Sun King (Formerly Greenlight Planet)

Greenlight Planet is a multinational, for-profit business that designs, distributes, and finances solar-powered home energy products, with an underserved population in mind: the 1.3 billion global consumers for whom the old-fashioned electrical grid is either unavailable or too expensive.

Over a decade in business, the company is now a leading global brand in emerging markets across Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.  Greenlight’s Sun King™ products provide modern light and energy to 26 million people in more than 40 countries and have sold over 10.5 million products worldwide.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate Product Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Associate Product Manager will work as part of the Enterprise Products team to help Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products and strong communication skills for our in-house software development team.

Responsibilities

• Gather, prioritise and refine requirements while keeping team members well informed. 
• Create use cases, flow charts, mock screens, PRDs for business requirements, user requirements, functional & non-functional requirements and system requirements. 
• Work on the Go-To-Market / rolling out of new products/apps/automations and resolving stakeholder queries/issues. 
• Work with cross-functional groups and assist in the entire product lifecycle from design to development to launch. 
• Test applications/solutions/web panels at various stages of the life cycle. 
• Work with the development team/or independently on integrations (using 3rd party tools to create mobile applications). 
• Travel as per company requirements to places including but not limited to Kenya, India Uganda, Nigeria, Myanmar and Tanzania.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree and prior 1-2 years of experience in software product management.
• Experience of rolling out successful products in the past.
• Able to structure and analyse ambiguous problems.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly through workflows, feature descriptions etc.
• Decent hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel and SQL, and any designing tools like Figma etc.
• Attention to detail and good documentation skills.
• Proactive and have willingness to get hands dirty.
• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with the team and diverse mix of stakeholders within the organization.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.