Product Owner

Do you enjoy connecting the dots, and building the bridge between the user's needs, and the work the development team is doing?  Are you able to develop a vision of what a product should look like? Sounds like you are fit for the Product Owner position!

The Company

Triggerise believes in a world where all youth have the power to choose where, when, and how they meet their sexual reproductive health needs. Our digital platform delivers scalable and verifiable sexual reproductive health services for young people in 5 main markets in Sub Saharan Africa - Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa and Burkina Faso. We work together with local communities and use nudges like reminders, discounts, and reward points to encourage our users to access and use sexual and reproductive health services. We also support our users in becoming micro-entrepreneurs and adding value to their economies.

Triggerise has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of 160 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Triggerise is like here.

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from anywhere in Portugal, South Africa, and Kenya.

The Job

We are looking for a Product Owner reporting to the Product Manager. The successful candidate will be required to effectively lead and execute the product portfolio and related activities across multiple backlogs, as well as manage cross-team dependencies through collaboration with other Product Owners, Teams, System Administrators & Consultants.

Responsibilities - Will include but not limited to:

• You see the big picture and understand what our users want and need, you can then turn these needs into practical development requirements for our tech team

• Write user stories and prioritize the backlog for the development team in order to specify the requirements of users

• Work with the team to ensure that the delivery of features aligns with the vision of the product

• Make sure any product that is developed is secure and safe with regard to information security & personal data

• Create release documentation, run workshops, and provide operational support during launches

• Gather information from multiple stakeholders from different countries in order to find a standard solution for every market

• Define the product roadmap according to the Triggerise strategy

About you

You are an outside-the-box thinker, and are, therefore, able to develop a vision of what a part of Triggerise’s product should look like and represents the end-user needs to the development/engineering team in order to achieve our vision.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience being a Product Owner for local, remote, and contracted partners in a distributed team

• Strong process engineering and process flow design w/ documentation, data structure/architecture, UX/UI (User Experience/User Interface), design best practices

• Some exposure in developing CRM applications, including setting up governance, best practices, standards, and change management processes

• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies

• You are fluent in English

Recruitment Process
Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Hiring Manager & Team Member | Final interview with Tech Leadership

The Rewards
At Triggerise we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,795 - €4,193 gross in Portugal, R62,024 - R93,035 gross in South Africa, and Ksh301,704 - Ksh452,555 gross in Kenya, plus benefits. We will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues.

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Secondary benefits

• A personal development budget

• Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team you’re good to go

• Growth opportunities

• A product to help shape as we grow, to leave your mark on how we do things

• A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations.

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website triggerise.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.