Technical Products Manager Job in Nairobi, Kenya

Jun 23, 2017

Job Vacancy: Technical Products Manager
 

Location: Nairobi
 

Availability: Immediately

Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as a communication link between business and technical sides of the business


• Manage requirements gathering and write the technical and functional specs of envisioned software and systems.


• Craft and maintain development plans and associated user stories that clearly define functionality or feature targets and acceptance criteria


• Define resources and schedule for project/program implementation.


• Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals and milestones.


• Communicate feature status regularly with internal and external partners and management, ensuring that issues are appropriately called out to keep delivery on track


• Identify risk and mitigation opportunities and contingency planning relating to project scope, schedule, and resources


• Present reports defining tech projects progress, problems and solutions.


• Lead the development team in product delivery by prioritizing production.

Skills and competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to gather and turn business requirements into technical requirements and scope projects


• Organized with keen attention to detail


• Ability to lead a team, mentor others in technical execution and project management


• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in the relevant field.


• Bachelor’s degree in BBIT, Computer science, project management or other related field


• Strong familiarity with project management software and issue tracking software such as ASANA, JIRA, Redmine or equivalent will be an added advantage.


• Experience in using Source Control (SVN/Git). Significant experience of designing and developing web solutions using open source technologies, including Linux, HTML5, MySQL


• Proven experience of Web Services integrations via API’s (Rest).

How to Apply
 

If you are up to the challenge, possess the necessary qualification and experience; please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject Technical Products Manager to info@alphalinksconsultancy.com and CC alphalinksconsultancyltd@gmail.com on before 30th June 2017. 

Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV. 

N.B: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted