Airtel - Technical Product Manager

Description :

Why Airtel Africa?

At Airtel, we don't just make things we make things possible. Airtel Africa is on a mission to change the world by connecting people with ideas. We are building next generation systems to improve the quality of life for millions of users spanned across 14+ countries.

What will you do?

- Building Digital Consumer and Enterprise platform, products & team from scratch

- True enterprise problem Platforms and products built once, deployed for multiple enterprises/ countries.

- True scalable products Products will be deployed in countries with subscriber base ranging from 100k subscribers to 200M subscribers

- Start-up culture with resources and scale of a multi-billion $ company

- Unparalleled responsibility and career opportunity to make a highly visible global impact

What will make you successful?

- 8+ years of full time technical product management experience within an engineering or technical team

- Demonstrated success managing multiple major and concurrent programs to envision, develop and deliver Products.

- Prior experience conceptualizing and development plus delivery of Web Products.

- Significant experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams and individual contributors

- Knowledge of project management tools, like Jira and Confluence

- Ability to communicate authoritatively at a sufficient technical depth

- Agile coaching and practitioner experience (Scrum, Kanban) with multiple teams

- Experience in managing all phases of end-to-end product development

- Knowledge of Internet client/server applications and systems

- Hands-on software development experience a plus

What will you be responsible for?

- Drive the product management and program management for a Web Application which will be used by millions of Airtel customers.

- Participate in one or more scrum teams as a product owner to define quarterly and sprint goals, set priorities and manage backlog

- Work with engineering and architecture leadership to define product and underlying platform capabilities

- Collaborate with the multiple functional teams in Airtel Africa to deliver features which might require upgrade of Core Platform capabilities.

- Liaise with other teams inside Airtel Africa that are instrumental in delivering the project management capability

- Set criteria for release readiness with regards to functionality of the solution

- Support multiple cross-functional technical teams to deliver their objectives in fast-paced and complex programs and projects

- Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives

- Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success

- Drive teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs

- Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths

- Work closely with the SRE team for deployment and delivery of features.