Want to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities? Join Jumia Kenya Tech Center where tech meets purpose. At Kenya Tech Center you will be managed by and mentored by top tech leaders across Portugal, Egypt and Kenya. You will also be working with state-of-the-art technologies & methodologies, and using agile philosophy, all as means to improve the lives of millions of Africans across the continent by offering them convenient and affordable online solutions. And with that as our PURPOSE, innovation at Jumia NEVER stops and you will be moving from one exciting challenge to the next.

What you will be doing

• Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear vision for your product. Define the strategic direction across various verticals such as Mall, Marketplace, Supply Chain, Finance, and JumiaPay, ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy
• Product Roadmap: Build and maintain a roadmap that reflects the business priorities while balancing the technical needs of backend systems
• Team Leadership: Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and continuously deploy innovative solutions
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary contact for all matters related to your product, liaising with stakeholders across the organization to gather requirements and transform them into actionable project streams
• Performance Metrics: Define and track key performance indicators for your product area, ensuring the team’s output aligns with business goals and contributes to user satisfaction.
• Agile Practices: Champion agile best practices and methodologies to drive efficiency and effectiveness within your team
• Optimize User Experience: Refine the processes users experience when interacting with our products.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Help the product management team prioritize decisions based on comprehensive product data.
• Scalable Growth: Ensure the product organization scales and grows smoothly with minimal friction
• Vision and Direction: Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders, creating requirements and specifications
• Backlog Management: Oversee backlog management, iteration planning, and user story elaboration
• Agile/Scrum Best Practices: Guide the team and organization in the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values
• Product Release Planning: Lead the planning of product release plans and set expectations for the delivery of new functionalities
• Impediment Mitigation: Actively mitigate impediments impacting the successful completion of Release/Sprint goals

What we are looking for

• Experience: 6-7 years as a Product Manager with solid Agile experience
• Technical Understanding: Strong understanding of technology, languages, and applications
• Requirement Definition: Proven ability to define requirements that address business challenges and identify necessary technical and business changes
• Clear Communication: Ability to communicate clearly across technology and business teams
• Initiative Support: Experience in supporting and rolling out initiatives to commercial teams