Senior Product Manager(Remote)

About Andela
Andela exists to connect brilliance and opportunity.

Since 2014, we have been dedicated to breaking down global barriers and accelerating the future of work for both technologists and organizations around the world.
For technologists, Andela offers competitive long term career opportunities with leading organizations, access to a global community of professionals, and education opportunities with leading technology providers.
For companies, Andela provides access to a global network of fully integrated team members that unlock their business’ innovation and growth potential.
At Andela, we are deeply passionate about creating long-lasting and transformative growth opportunities for all and doing it in an E.P.I.C.

(andela.com/careers) way.
We are excited to continue building our remote first team with incredible people like you!
Position Description
Andela’s Product Team is at the intersection of people, process, and technology.

We’re working closely with engineers, operations teams, and users to build a next-generation platform that facilitates the connection between the global talent workforce (brilliance) and some of the best companies in the world (opportunity).

We believe that the future of work hinges on successful remote work relationships and we are building products to solve for this.

We are a small team, rapidly expanding and eager to make an impact.
In this role, you will lead a team of engineers and designers to define, build, and launch mission-critical initiatives that have a direct impact on the company’s bottom line.

We’re looking for an experienced product manager who will use research and data to define strategy for a category of products, and who is at the same time a world-class executor.

We need problem solvers, creative thinkers, and people who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
If this sounds like you, keep reading
– we want to hear from you!

We are a fully remote company and you can truly live anywhere while doing this job.

English fluency is required.
General Responsibilities

Define, scope, and prioritize Andela’s Client Side Marketplace Product roadmap; you will own an entire product category.
Own and lead all aspects of an established agile team: writing user stories and acceptance criteria, backlog grooming, triage and prioritization, demos, end to end product execution, cross-functional leadership.
Communicate product direction, progress, delivery, launch, and mitigation plans to all relevant team members and business stakeholders.
Establish and maintain credibility within engineering, the business, and our users.
Conduct user research and data analysis to assess opportunities, risks, and business plans.
Set adoption targets and continuously analyze data to assess the success of a product and inform product direction.
In The First Week
Expectations:

Onboard and integrate into Andela.
Learn about Andela’s existing product suite.
Become acquainted with your area of focus, peers, stakeholders, and your product goals.
In The First Month

Start collaborating closely with your engineering team to familiarize yourself with the backlog.
Work with senior team members to develop and prioritize your high level roadmap.
Form relationships with your business stakeholders and start understanding end user personas.
Take over all current initiatives.
In The First Three Months

Fully own a product category, working with other team members to complete research and prioritization for the next major release.
Ship features that deliver high business value.
Fully embed yourself in your engineering team and take ownership of all product management activities.
Monitor the success and adoption of any product features shipped against company goals.
Understand Andela business processes that fall under your area of responsibility and propose new ways to scale those processes with product.
Run stakeholder meetings/initiatives to evangelize and push adoption of the product roadmap.
Establish yourself as a well known, key player within the product team and within Andela.
In The First Six Months

Develop a repeatable model for delivering against company and product goals.
Mentor more junior product team members.
Consistently re-evaluate the roadmap and backlog to seamlessly respond to changing market and business priorities.
Work with engineering to continuously improve development processes and practices within your team.
Contribute to the development of the product management team by introducing new ideas/initiatives and pushing for the maturation of existing processes.
In The First Year

Define your category’s product strategy and plan for expansion.
Deliver, deliver, deliver!

You are a trusted and highly valued Andelan and our team relies on you to consistently ship high quality products that our users love.
Continuously strive to scale and improve the team, meeting the growing needs of the business and our users.
Discover new product opportunities and actively contribute to the overall Andela product direction.
Qualifications

5+ years of product management experience at a software company, marketplace or B2B preferred.

7+ years overall work experience.
Degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred, but not a dealbreaker.
Consensus-builder; develops relationships across the company with ease.
Technical fluency; you don’t have to be an engineer, but you do need to speak the language.
Ability to build wireframes and mockups, with a knack for keeping things simple.
Strong understanding of how to truly propose and build a lean MVP and scope out further milestones for a product or feature.
Detail oriented and a high bar for quality when it comes to writing stories, acceptance criteria, launch plans, and testing a feature before greenlighting its launch to users.
Strong project management with the ability to identify and communicate blockers, next steps, and progress.
Strong analytical skills and fluency with data, with the ability to use a variety of tools to gather and synthesize information (experience with Google Analytics, BigQuery, Looker a major plus).
Excellent written and verbal communication with a tendency to over-document and over-communicate: we are fully remote, so this is very important!
Humble and willing to learn/grow.

We need confident and capable PMs who want to help each other succeed as much as they want to help our talent succeed.
About Andela
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz wrote: “software is eating the world.” That statement is just as true today as it was eight years ago.

Software is embedded in our day-to-day, and few industries are immune.

Peak behind the code and you will find brilliant engineers pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
Talk to any engineering leader and they will tell you that access to talent is their number one barrier to building software and growing their business.

Research the industry and you read about the 1 million computer-programming jobs that will go unfilled in 2020.
That is where Andela comes in.

We help engineering leaders at companies big and small bridge that gap.

We are building tools, systems and processes to connect talent, no matter where they live, with the opportunities to do great things.

To date, we have identified 1,000+ software engineers from Africa and placed them as full-time, embedded members of development teams at over 200+ tech companies.

Along the way, we have raised $180M from Al Gore’s venture fund, Generation Partners, Google Ventures, Spark Capital, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and Serena Ventures.
And we are just getting started.
OUR PEOPLE
All of our people live and breathe our E.P.I.C values:
Excellence: We are lifelong learners who strive for mastery of our craft
Passion: We believe we are going to change the world and act accordingly
Integrity: We choose extraordinary people and then trust them to do the right thing
Collaboration: We know our sum is greater than our parts
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Benefits

Fully Remote work culture
A fair and competitive salary
Bring your own device stipend
– buy your own laptop with funds from Andela
Quarterly work from home stipends
Paid time off
Additional paid holidays
Flexible working hours
Health insurance (country-specific)
Equity
401k (US only)
Andela Affinity Groups
And more!
At Andela, we outcompete through diversity.

We know that our strengths lies in the multiplicity of talents, perspectives, backgrounds & orientations resident in our community and we take pride in that.

Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits disc