Product Manager
As a Product Manager at Sporty Group, you will define and work on the digital roadmap for products used by millions of daily global users. You will collaborate with talented stakeholders across our remote-working organization to establish clear and measurable goals, and use generative research to create products that excite and engage our customers.
In this role, you are expected to become an undisputed expert on your product and customer, and to ensure what goes on your product backlog is worth building. Overseeing product strategy, partnering with development teams and leading the collaborative, dynamic planning process and prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team, you would ensure business readiness of any new product release. You would manage the scope of projects from inception to closure and ensure delivery processes are efficient and cost effective.
- Aligning product development goals and initiatives to company OKRs.
- Evaluating new opportunities to ensure that what gets developed and delivered to our customers is the right product, and is both usable and desirable.
- Directing customer research and analysis initiatives to gain a deep understanding of customers needs, pain points, and behaviors and use this knowledge to create compelling business cases that demonstrate the value of your proposed product recommendations.
- Growing and maintaining an understanding of our competitive landscape through regular research and analysis.
- Defining and communicating the product roadmap.
- Collaborating with your engineering teams to translate product opportunities into clear, specific, and measurable requirements to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality working software.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with our Delivery Managers, Tech Leads and Product Managers to effectively coordinate dependencies between tasks, development teams or projects.
- Collaborating with internal teams, specifically the marketing team, to develop comprehensive go-to-market plans and product positioning.
- Defining and tracking key metrics to measure product performance and success.
- Providing training and mentorship to new and current team members on your areas of expertise and responsibility.
- Experience making data-driven product decisions through user research and experimentation (required).
- Demonstrable evidence of iterating and improving products based on feedback and performance data (required).
- A strong understanding of user-centered design principles (required).
- The ability to influence within a fast-paced and distributed environment, and lead cross-functional planning and problem solving, particularly with engineering and design teams (required).
- Experience defining and tracking OKRs or a similar goal-setting framework (required).
- Excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills (required).
- The ability to communicate clearly and efficiently in English (required).
- Experience in achieving product market fit for emerging markets (nice-to-have).
- Degree or Masters in a Business, Product or Technology discipline (nice-to-have).
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter.
- 28 days paid annual leave.
- Core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this.
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses.
- Top of the line equipment.
- Annual company retreats.
Sporty Group is a sports technology company whose brands include SportyBet, a mobile-first sportsbook licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, alongside the Sporty.com app and the SportyTV broadcast service in Nigeria. SportyBet has sponsorship partnerships with Real Madrid and Manchester City. The group hires across Europe, Latin America and Asia, and many of its technology and product roles are remote.