Technical Product Manager at The Student Hub Online

About the job
The Student Hub, an educational technology start-up specialising in developing innovative marketplace platforms within South Africa, is looking for a Product Manager to join our team!. This full-time position is based at our Head Office in Cape Town.

The Ideal Candidate

• The successful incumbent will work on improving the customer journey by relying on data analytics, feature experimentation, and a thorough understanding of building a world-leading EdTech product.
• To excel in this role, you should embody effective time and task management skills (for you and your team), and be a natural leader who can break down concepts into clear, operationalisable segments, and delegate accordingly. You will work with a skilled cross-functional team, as well as collaborate with our Senior Management Team, to ensure that our products continuously evolve in line with the company's strategic vision and goals.

Responsibilities

•  Create and maintain a product roadmap based on the product strategy and company vision.
•  Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and briefs for the development team.
•  Scope and prioritise activities based on business and customer impact.
•  Work with internal teams to design and implement features.
•  Work with the product team to research, prototype, test and validate ideas.
•  Work with the Marketing team to roll-out and communicate product changes to customers.
•  Continuously monitor the effectiveness of product changes and recommend improvements.
•  Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding, as well as be available to the team to answer questions and provide clarity on decisions.
•  Help facilitate growth by optimising all parts of the Customer Onboarding Funnel.
•  Understand our customers through analysis, research, and direct interaction.
•  Delegate and coordinate work to execute on our product roadmap between multiple teams.
•  Specifying market requirements for current and future features by conducting market research.
•  Management of development for new features.
•  Work with internal teams (Development, Sales, Accounts, Content, Support and General Management) to support and extend the product.
•  Feature documentation.
•  Product Acceptance Testing.
•  Test case software management, including writing of relevant test cases.

Requirements:
Minimum

•  Minimum 3 years relevant experience as a Technical Product Manager or Product Owner.
•  Knowledge of Design Thinking and product validation procedures.
•  Excellent prioritisation and time-management skills.
•  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to drive teamwork in achieving solutions and ensuring clarity in expectations.
•  Creative, solution-driven mindset.
•  High attention to detail.
•  Ability to work in a deadline driven, high pressure environment.

Preferred

•  Relevant tertiary qualification in Product Management.
•  Technical qualifications (Coding / IT / Computer Science).
•  Experience in a high-growth startup environment.
•  Prior experience in EdTech/Education.

Remuneration:

•  R540 000 – R720 000 per annum
•  Performance Bonus
•  Stock Options

Kindly note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.