Summary
Date Posted: Monday, December 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Senior Technology Product Manager: KOKO Labs

Your Role
The Senior Technology Product Manager role at KOKO Labs is a career-defining opportunity to drive the creation of transformative new technology-based products and services.
This role reports directly to the Chief Innovation Officer, and requires at least 50% time in-the-field with Labs team members in our target markets.

What You Will Do
You will develop a deep understanding of consumer problems, issues, needs and wants within KOKO’s Innovation Program areas, through activities such as:
• Reviewing market research data and academic literature
• Conducting your own research activities directly with target consumers
• Briefings with Program Managers, Researchers, and subject matter experts
• Monitoring competitive landscape, technologies & trends

You will support Innovation Program teams teams with technical solution ideation, concept design, rapid prototyping and iteration, by:
• Using best-practice design thinking frameworks to deeply understand the problems that you’re tackling, and define / frame those problems for the team
• Collaborating with teams in thinking big, to imagine solutions that solve these problems, considering how to build on KOKO’s existing platforms/architecture
• Scoping these solutions to their smallest coherent state to test key hypotheses with users as early as you can
• Guiding Designers, Engineers and experts in developing early stage functional prototypes to validate key hypotheses
• Deploying prototypes in the field, evaluating their performance through quantitative & qualitative methods, and communicating resultsManaging a prioritised “roadmap” of design and testing activities so we are always focusing on the most impactful work
• Capturing and sharing new domain knowledge for use in future projects
• You will help develop and present business cases / recommendations for breakthrough new ideas to the KOKO executive team


What You Will Bring to KOKO
• At least 5 years of experience applying design-thinking methodologies to developing innovative technology-based solutions
• Proven track record of shipping impactful hardware and software products
• Strong understanding of underlying technologies (e.g. mobile, cloud, data, IoT) and the processes for managing software engineering, hardware design and manufacturing
• Entrepreneurial history demonstrating personal initiative, risk-appetite & drive Keen desire to work in emerging markets, solve major problems, and serve mass-market consumers
• Excellent skills in communication, interpersonal relations & persuasion
• Comfort making decisions in ambiguity


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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