The Beginning Roam was founded in 2017 just as electric mobility was taking off, when electric cars were just arriving on our streets. Roam vision is to make electric transport more accessible to a broader market by making the technology more cost efficient and simplifying deployment. The company focuses on all-electric conversion kits for fleet vehicles su…
About the role:
We are looking for a Product Manager who will manage the company’s electric bus division, with experience from product development and shipping hardware. The role will be focused on managing product team work and task management towards technical functional teams. Developing structures and tools to follow up on the process as well as handle the administrative side of product development. This role requires deep organizational skills and a lot of follow up with team members.
We are looking for a person that has already been part of a similar journey, scaling a team with many technical roles preferably in Africa. A good understanding of digital systems and how-to priorities crucial tasks in the process of developing a product and technical functions while in the midst of launching a product in parallel.
You will be in charge of managing the processes of the entire product team and processes related to building and maintaining product lines. You will be acting as an advisor for the Product Owner and Chief of Product but must also be able to roll up your sleeves and execute solutions engineering, commercialization as well as project management. You will manage the process of developing, launching, costing and running a team while taking many stakeholders aspects in consideration.
Roam aims to be a diverse and high performing environment which has to be at the highest priority. We offer an adventure, extreme career development as well as a once in a lifetime opportunity, which we want everyone to understand. You will be independent in your role and will report directly to the Product Owner and Chief of Product and work closely with both.
The ideal candidate
- must have experience from a rapidly growing hardware company being Project/Product manager or similar position, with a deep understanding of the complete product development process as well as how to efficiently integrate technology, manufacturing processes and commercialization in an automotive setting.
- They should have experience of a scale-up phase of a company, managing a product team. While also balancing tight deadlines with compromises to reach product milestones and releases. Ideally with a broad knowledge of different systems of product management, processes and structures. Engineering background is ideal since the Product Manager will work closely with the functional engineering teams to reach the product milestones.
- Experience from working in Sub-Saharan Africa is preferable.
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