Junior Product Manager

5 months ago

Umhlanga, South Africa iKhokha Full time

**Company Description**
iKhokha is a place where chance takers become change makers. At iKhokha, we believe in better. As you'd expect, our pace is fast-moving and ever-changing. We like it that way. As one of the fastest growing Fintech's in Africa we've built a team of global change-makers who want to make an impact. If you believe in a better future, be a chance-taker and help us empower small businesses in South Africa.

Embark on a thrilling journey as a Junior Agile Product Manager, partnering with a seasoned Product Manager to spearhead the development and refinement of innovative products.

Dive into the heart of collaboration with cross-functional teams, and embrace a role that blends leadership with hands-on experience in steering product strategy and ensuring alignment with business objectives.

**So, what will you do?**

You will be helping the Product Manager in the definition and delivery of high-quality products that meet merchant needs and drive business value.

You will work closely with stakeholders, and customers to aid in story creation and grooming, feature prioritisation, the creation and maintenance of product backlogs, and to help ensure the successful execution of the product roadmap. You may also be required to own small portions of the broader product development process end-to-end with your Product Manager acting as your key stakeholder.

It is expected to frequently fulfil responsibilities similar to those of a Business Analyst, collaborating with software engineers, testers, technical architects, and other Product Managers to ensure effective and efficient work in supported areas. Your role will involve aiding in maximising the value of the product and ensuring that it aligns with the organisation's overall strategy and objectives.

**In addition to the above, you will**:

- Support the Product Manager in delivering intuitive and desirable software increments efficiently, despite limited skills and resources, ensuring these solutions not only meet the market demand and profitability goals but also remain user-friendly and compelling for daily use.
- Be responsible for defining the problem that needs to be solved, so that design and engineers can collaborate around that solution.
- Own portions of the SDLC process that produces valuable and usable software end-to-end.
- Track industry trends and the competitive landscape as they pertain to your product area, to make most informed decisions as well as to grow understanding of the competitive landscape in the business.
- Contribute to everyone in the business having a solid knowledge of who our products are built for, how our products will deliver highest value to them, and key data points of how our users are effectively engaging with the product. Other stakeholders include the Product Manager that they report to, sales, marketing, finance, risk / legal / compliance, customer support, retail partners.
- Understand and help contribute to the building of extraordinary teams that are passionate about result and innovation.
- Help the Product Manager to create and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritised, refined, and accurately reflects the requirements and priorities of the product.
- Collaborate with development teams to refine user stories, acceptance criteria and other backlog items.
- Continuously help to groom and prioritise the backlog to ensure the most valuable features are being worked on.
- Act as one of the primary points of contact between stakeholders, development teams and other cross-functional teams for the work that the you are responsible for.
- When tasked to, provide clear and timely direction to the development team by maintaining a well-groomed and prioritised product backlog.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement and other Agile ceremonies.
- Aid in the making of informed decisions about scope, prioritisation, and trade-offs to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality products.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Business Administration) or equivalent practical experience.

**Deal Breakers**:
2 years’ experience working on technology or software products as either a product owner, business analyst or junior product manager with the following:

- Thorough exposure to the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Knowledge of software development processes and technologies and clear comprehension of how to effectively communicate requirements of end users translated within a software development context.
- Demonstrated experience working closely with software engineers, testers and architects to deliver software increments as well as prior involvement in the creation and refinement of use cases, functional specifications, and technical requirements.
- Demonstrated experience working closely with product or service designers to deliver software increments as well as familiarity with user-centred design principles and UX/UI concepts.

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