Product Director by PEG Africa

• You have a strong sense of work ownership and understand how to foster and manage ownership in colleagues.
• You are an excellent communicator, speaking the language of product, developers, and business alike. You have experience and comfort communicating with the entire range of company personnel, from data entry interns to C-suite.
• You are fluent in English and can speak at least intermediate business French and can embed yourself in the culture of any of our markets.
• You have experience of working in global product teams, preferable across geographies (In African setting) and have demonstrated strong business understanding and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated experience turning data into actionable insights.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, with a bias for user-focused innovation and development.
• Financial understanding and FinTech experience (Asset finance) are a plus.
• Your belief and execution in investing in the right people to grow the department will be instrumental for success.
• Similarly, your customer-centric mindset and evangelism of the user experience is how you create products your users/customers love.
• You ask tough questions like “Are we building what matters?” and “How are we improving the user adoption of this feature?” while keeping a great eye on design and testing.

• BComm or BSc degree / diploma (Product, Process, or Project management) or relative work experience.
• Extensive product leadership experience and strong teaming abilities.
• Ability to self-manage while managing assigned teams and projects.
• Ability to manage multiple business initiatives in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Excellent presentation skills that encompass clear, compelling communications.
• Strategic & creative thinker with the ability to craft go-to-market strategies and campaigns in collaboration with marketing.
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail.
• Able to formulate and implement global strategies for systems, process, and people and present those in an attractive manner.
• Successfully implemented data-driven processes to turn a vision into an actionable roadmap.

• Advanced knowledge of BI, task/project management and road mapping tools.
• Basic understanding of SQL for being able to query.
• Proficiency with ERP and/or CRM systems (preferably Odoo).
• Expert proficiency with Microsoft Excel or Google Suite, and collaboration tools like Slack or Jira are advantageous.

• Lead, Mentor and Manage teams of product managers, developers, and related personnel.
• Develop and execute a winning roadmap which you can distill into relevant presentations to key stakeholders. PEG is introducing internally developed and off the shelf products for its various teams. You'll be responsible for working senior leadership to setting a coherent strategy behind this and package it in PEG's product road map.
• As the ambassador for automation and a data culture in PEG you'll need to proactively develop a thorough business understanding, and empathise with all your stakeholders (CEO or a field agent). Critically you'll need to envision best practice and build enthusiasm for the solutions you and the wider tech team want to bring to table.
• Create systems that people love. Together with cross-functional teams, ensure implementations of process and system excite our users and make them want to use it.
• You will lead the adoption of PEG's products across our four markets.. You'll be responsible for moving entire country teams, field teams and clients from their existing tools and processes to our internally defined products.
• Drive product analytics to understand feature usage, system literacy, and optimization.
• Act as a cross-functional leader to bring the organization together to meet business goals through Product.
• Own the product roadmap and communicate with C-level staff, board members, and other stakeholders.

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