Jumia Product Owner - Salesforce Jobs in Kenya

Jumia Product Owner - Salesforce Jobs in Kenya

About Jumia:

Jumia is the leading pan-Africa e-commerce platform. Founded in 2012, Jumia’s mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to consumers, while helping businesses grow as they use our platform to reach and serve consumers.

Our platforms consist of our marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, our logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and our payment service, which facilitates transactions among participants active on our platform in selected markets.

Through our online platforms, consumers can access a wide range of physical and digital goods and services, fashion, electronics, beauty products and also hotel and flight bookings or restaurant delivery.

With over 5,000 employees in more than 10 countries in Africa, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders.

Jumia is committed to creating sustainable impact for Africa. Jumia offers unique opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment, creating new jobs, new skills, and empowering a new generation.

About Jumia Tech Centers

Want to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities? Join Jumia Kenya Tech Center where tech meets purpose. At Kenya Tech Center you will be managed by and mentored by top tech leaders across Portugal, Egypt and Kenya.

You will also be working with state of the art technologies & methodologies, and using agile philosophy, all as means to improve the lives of millions of Africans across the continent by offering them convenient and affordable online solutions. And with that as our PURPOSE, innovation at Jumia Never stops and you will be moving from one exciting challenge to the next.

What you will be doing

You will develop the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for building the product suite of Jumia Advertising in concert with cross-functional peers.

You will develop the product vision, strategy, and roadmap to extends our current SalesForce Service Cloud product to support our Jumia Customer and Vendor Experience tools.

You’ll become an authority on your product area.

You’ll identify customer needs and business opportunities through a combination of user research, collecting feedback from cross-functional teammates, diving into data, competitive analysis.

You’ll work with Marketing

Vendor and Customer Experience team to understand the current use of existing products (e.g. Salesforce …) to define and prioritize the features.

You’ll own features and experiments end-to-end, including writing product specs, driving cross-functional execution, making thoughtful product decisions along the way, and sharing insights and results throughout the company.

Main Responsibilities:

Drive one or more Scrum Teams as the Product Owner

Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements in the forms of Epics, Themes and Stories

Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values
Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities

Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

Requirements:

3-5 years experience working as a Product Owner in a technology environment would be a preference

SalesForce Experience would be highly appreciated

Solid Agile experience

Understanding of technology, language and applications

Proven ability to define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical and business changes required to address them

Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and the business teams

Experience supporting/rolling out initiatives to commercial teams

Experience with demand generation, account/territory

Expected personal skills :

Action oriented and results oriented

Strong analytical skill

Strong inter-personal skills

Fast learner

Well organized

Resistant to stress

Very independent with a strong ability to go further than the expectations

We Offer

A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment

A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African ecommerce sector

The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team

An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Jumia Product Owner - Salesforce Jobs in Kenya

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