Job Description
At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortified …
Product Manager
Roles And Responsibilities
- Write detailed user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams on assigned innovation products.
- Own and maintain the product backlog for assigned products, working with the Manager, Product Management, and engineering leads to keep priorities current, sequenced, and well-defined.
- Track release schedules, flag risks early, and ensure key milestones remain on track across concurrent workstreams.
- Engage directly with field users — Community Health Workers, supervisors, and program staff — to gather, document, and synthesise feedback into actionable product inputs.
- Collaborate with UI/UX designers to develop wireframes, user flows, and interface specifications grounded in real user needs.
- Support sprint ceremonies including refinement, planning, and retrospectives, ensuring the engineering team has clear, well-defined work.
- Facilitate user acceptance testing and manage post-deployment feedback loops for assigned products.
- Track product performance metrics and surface insights to the Manager, Product Management to inform iteration decisions.
- Produce clear, concise product documentation and status updates to keep stakeholders informed.
- Support the Manager, Product Management in stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, and cross-functional coordination as required.
Skills & Competencies
- 3–5 years of product management, business analysis, or closely related experience.
- Hands-on experience writing requirements, managing backlogs, and coordinating product delivery in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban).
- Ability to engage directly with end users and translate qualitative feedback into well-structured, actionable requirements.
- Organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently without losing track of quality or timelines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams.
- Curiosity and interest in emerging technology, including AI-enabled digital health tools.
- Experience in the digital health sector or international development is an advantage, not a requirement.
- Comfort in a rapidly changing environment, with the ability to handle uncertainty and contribute to problem-solving initiatives.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information and Communication, Digital Health, Computer Science, or a related discipline or relevant experience.
- Product management or business analysis certifications an added advantage.
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