IncarnatedLives International Job Vacancy Application Details

IncarnatedLives Ltd. is a digital marketplace for renewable waste materials. We assist smallholder enterprises with financial tools that help them grow in capacity and production. We accelerate entrepreneurs & SME’s by offering financial assistance, they become our partners. We partner with Entrepreneurs, Investors, local authorities, NGO’s, Service Providers, Social Clubs & Environment authorities. Through the partnerships, we can expose natives, locals of a region to a wider market. Enterprises, Proprietors and economic opportunity are promoted through investment & advertising. The group seeks to impact several fields in the ecosystem. The aim is to bring financial stability, awareness, employment and sustainability. We promote nature preservation & environmental conservation initiatives. Striving for a self-reliant & sustainable economy.

Who you are

In order to be successful and enjoy being a Product Specialist at Incarnatedlives, you will need first and foremost to have an entrepreneurial mentality. You are committed to excel with energy and endurance, as you understand that building a company is hard but satisfying work. You have a passion for building great products and technology, superior communication skills, high integrity, and great attention to detail.

What you will do

• Obsess over customer and Kenyan ecosystem in order to understand what problem we need to solve
• Build up a product from scratch with full end-to-end responsibility
• Work closely with design and software team to come up with solutions that scale
• Come up with success metrics and define experiments to improve those metrics
• Establish and nurture agile driven development process and mindset
• Coordinate all releases and technical changes with internal and external stakeholders
• Document what you do to build a foundation for the growing product team

Must have skills

• Translate business strategy into product strategy
• Own the product roadmap
• Execute product strategy
• Drive action throughout the organization to get products to market
• Plan and carry out product launches
• Write high-level requirements, and Product Requirement Documents (PRD)
• Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog
• Track releases
• Participate in daily scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives with the Development team.
• Support the development team with any questions or queries they may have
• Developing the product wireframe for software development team
• Testing the Product
• Translating user needs into product requirements
• Overseeing the product backlog together with the Product Owners
• Overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process
• Keep track of industry trends

What we are looking for

• You have 1-2 years working experience as Product Specialist/Product Owner/ Product Executive or Project Manager
• You Have Bachelor Degree in any discipline
• You get excited talking to customers in order to understand their problems/needs
• You are a good communicator as you need to coordinate regularly with different people from different departments i.e Software Development, Business.
• You collected your first experience in managing stakeholders
• You make decisions based on data and not on opinions
• You are interested in building up a very good business and customer understanding
• You are in love with details but can also zoom out when needed
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to learn quickly
• You have knowledge on Project management tools (i.e. Jira/Asana/ Trello) as well as Wireframe design tools (i.e. Figma)
• You must have a Laptop and high speed internet connection at your place