Head of Product at SafeBoda

Who we are?

Motorcycle taxis are immensely popular and serve as the lifeblood of many cities in Africa, but they are extremely unsafe and disorganized. At the click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first transportation platform for Africa’s booming young population. On the high-frequency use of our transportation service, SafeBoda is providing value to consumers, our drivers, and passengers, with additional financial services, payments, and other on-demand services such as food and grocery delivery to keep Africa moving forward.

Based in Uganda and Nigeria, we are a venture-funded Series B company that is already having a huge impact on millions of people in Africa. We have a passionate and highly engaged team based in East and West Africa and we are looking to quickly grow it to speed-up the organization’s growth and make sure we can revolutionize transportation, on-demand services and payments in Africa’s cities.

The Product Department at SafeBoda:

Product management at SafeBoda leads the integration of engineering, data science, and design to achieve the company’s vision for mobility in cities in Africa. You are responsible for shaping the product roadmap, developing the product positioning and owning the growth strategy for the product. You will work with and energize the team to deliver highly impactful product development. We are looking for an entrepreneurial and passionate Head of Product to innovate and execute across a rapidly growing, fast paced company and industry.

What we are looking for:

• Have 4+ years of experience in product management, development and design, delivering highly successful and innovative products
• Have an understanding of computer science and agile development methodologies
• Focused on building businesses, not simply features. Entrepreneurial experience building and leading businesses, including ownership and optimization of business performance metrics
• You are excited to become a master of our product, have great knowledge of our market, customers and competition
• Be emotionally intelligent, humble and excited to work with in a team with a diverse set of experiences, backgrounds, and skills
• Possess strong data analysis skills. Be comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Exhibit the ability to navigate ambiguity, juggle multiple tasks, think independently and problem solve like a boss.
• Strong undergraduate degree (or higher) with demonstrated strong academic performance
• Excitement for SafeBoda and what we are trying to achieve

Location:

East Africa or West Africa.

There will be a lot of travels between Kampala and Ibadan.

The perfect candidate will spend the first 6 months in the Kampala office

Responsibilities:

• Lead all dimensions of product development visioning, long-term roadmapping, daily prioritization, feature design, development, and testing.
• Be the champion of the product – make the tough calls. Support the development team and hold them accountable.
• Manage and lead a growing team and work with the CTO to steer product development.
• Oversee the product testing and iteration with a strong focus on user-centred-design. This means understanding the customer needs and being the voice of the customer.
• Communicating with stakeholders on the product, its development, performance, opportunities.
• Serve as customer and business proxy to the engineering team, communicating business vision, strategy and interests to the product and engineering teams.
• Oversee product support activities and initiatives

Perks:

• Be part of a passionate team that is changing the mobility landscape in Africa
• Opportunity to travel to East Africa and interact with the product and our multi-cultural team
• Competitive salary based on experience, free SafeBoda transport, free lunch and much more!

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