Junior Product Manager

Junior Product Manager

Cialfo is a leading platform connecting students, higher education institutions, and counselors through technology-driven solutions. Launched in 2017 with a mission to make education accessible to 100 million students, Cialfo provides a range of mobile and web solutions to students, K-12 institutions, and higher education institutions. We're one of the fastest-growing tech startups in the region, consistently charting new heights!

Job Description

As a Junior Product Manager, your job is to make sure the right things get done. At a high level, this means establishing a clear vision for what a product should be and what needs to be done to get there. On a day to day basis, this means handling all the different facets of a project and making sure they're coordinated. And at the core, this means building a foundation of knowledge across user needs, technical constraints, and design goals so you can act as a bridge across all of them.

What You Will Be Doing

• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prepared tasks to work on.
• Plan and prioritise product backlog and development for the product.
• Define the product vision, road-map and growth opportunities.
• Assess value, develop cases and prioritise stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with the maximum value that is aligned with product strategy.
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Lead the planning product release plans and set an expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Research and analyse market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
• Follow our competitors and the industry.
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.

About You

• Qualification
  • Diploma or Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field.
• Experience
  • At least 2 to 6 years relevant PM experience in Web or Mobile products, ideally SaaS based products.
  • Previous working experience as a Product Manager using the Scrum method.
  • In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles.
• Skills and Qualities
  • Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills.
  • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Creative thinker with a vision.
  • Attention to detail.