Director of Product job at Opibus (Roam)
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Vacancy title:
Director of Product

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Engineering Services , Category: Management ]

Jobs at:

Opibus (Roam)

Deadline of this Job:
13 November 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, October 30, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Director of Product

About the role:
We are looking for a Director of Product to support our massive scale up of local assembly of electric motorcycles and buses. The main areas we require excellence in are building organization and processes for efficient product development, team prioritization as well as building strategic roadmaps for an extremely rapid growth of our organization.
You will be responsible for heading the three product segments, motorcycles, buses and energy systems, contributing to the overall product strategy while also ensuring seamless and efficient development processes across the product’s value chain. The ideal candidate must have experience scaling hardware products with complex supply chain and assembly processes..

Key Duties and responsibilities:
• Evaluating new technology/solutions and incorporating it into existing products or creating new products based on new technology or solutions
• Improving and working on process within Product Optimization, Systems Integration, Release Management and Risk Management
• Maintaining relationships with engineering, production, and after-sales to ensure that product quality is maintained throughout the product life cycle
• Developing product communication together with communications team
• Meeting with customers to discuss product development improvements and providing proposals for solutions
• Reviewing and capturing user feedback and market data
• Working with product teams to develop structures and help with recruitment
• Identifying market trends and consumer preferences to ensure informed product decisions
• Holding meetings with product team members to discuss upcoming product developments and strategy
• Update and prepare product strategy for management review, status update and providing feedback.
• Implement and co-create an overall product strategy
• Responsible for structuring the product departments, hierarchy and team structure
• Maintain close communication with engineering, production, and commercial by updating on the status of progress of product management/development and releases.
• Will be responsible for creating and maintaining product processes and structures.
• Prepare, maintain, and monitor departmental budget whilst ensuring key departmental plans are realized more cost-effectively
• Review procedures periodically to ensure that they maintain in line with changing business requirements and reflect best practice.
• Review and develop policies and procedures and identify process bottlenecks and implement solutions promptly

Qualifications
• Must have at least 5 years’ experience in Product Management/Development
• Must have a relevant bachelor's degree/ Diploma in Engineering or Project Management
• Preferably previous experience from the Automotive sector and/or Electric mobility.
• Must have experience working with Product Development Process and building Product Teams

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to Opibus (Roam) on career.roammotors.com to apply


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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 13 November 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 31-10-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 31-10-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 31-10-2066
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