PRODUCT DIRECTOR NEED AT MTECH COMMUNUCATIONS

JOB TITLE: Product Director

RECRUITING COMPANY : MTECH COMMUNICATIONS

JOB DESCRIPTION: The position of Sales Director is a leadership role with primary responsibility for the sales management and market share growth. The Sales Director has a direct reporting line to the CEO and close working relationships with other heads of the departments. The Sales Director is responsible for improving the operational performance and efficiency of the MTech Sales Organization. S/he will be involved in all aspects within the Sales process, including, but not limited to Sales Force Automation, Forecasting, Metrics/Reporting, Sales Reviews, Training, and Compensation.

The position of Product Director is a leadership role with primary responsibility for the product management and market share growth. You will be a member of a dynamic product team committed to developing our next generation mobile and digital multimedia and collaboration products. You will have end to end responsibility throughout the execution cycle, including: gathering product requirements, defining product vision, creating preliminary design concepts, and working with cross functional teams to rollout products to market.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE PRODUCT DIRECTOR

• Engage with Mobile Operators, Mobile Marketing Customers and Online Customers, sales and marketing to understand market needs trends and gather product and market requirements

• Work closely with Product UX Designer on shaping the overall product user experience

• Manage the full life cycle of products from conception to market

• Write and review Market Requirements Document, Product Requirements Documentss

• Work with business development to prioritize partnership opportunities and integrate with multiple external partners

• Work with marketing to promote the product and with the international team to address the needs of each local market

• Work closely with engineering, QA and operations to scope, plan and deliver new releases

• Be a resource to sales, support and other customer facing teams.

• Work with relevant business unit leaders to ensure product requirements are in line with company vision.

• Leading product development for mobile and online consumer oriented applications and services.

• Aggressively explore new technologies so that we can advance our product leadership.

• 'Top notch' organizational and time management skills too

• Ownership and driving of results.

• Product director must improve product quality, user experience, and drive development.

• Owning features - the entire design process from beginning to end, product plans, ensuring the feature's success, and project managing their development.

What kind of questions do I have for you? A lot of them will be about your track record and how you would apply your skills.

• Have you been successful in leading product development for consumer mobile or online products?

• Do you have a history of being an 'owner and problem solver' and capable of molding and evolving products?

• Did you continuously improve product quality and user-experiences in a highly competitive landscape?

• Can you say that you work closely with technology teams and have hands-on execution skills such as creating wire frames, functional specs, process/user flows, etc.?

• Do you have experience with rapid design and development?

• Do you have experience managing Product Managers?

• Have you been successful working with development teams and bringing world-class user facing web and or Mobile applications to market?

• Have you had enough experience in product management/development in the right arena?

• Do you have a good understanding of the development technologies for rich mobile and internet applications? This position of product director is perfect for someone that has superior interpersonal, teamwork, collaborations skills, and a history of success in a similar role. The payoff will be great if you do. We will offer a competitive salary, and 'eye opening', interesting work. So, if you are qualified and interested - let's talk.

Success in this role will be achieved by Sales Manager: 1.Exceeding internal sales metrics by 30-40%, including target monthly revenue, margins, number of new products accepted by customers

2. Be the first with the product on the market before someone else is.

3.Hiring best-in-breed product professionals who are always on the edge of technologies

4.Building and maintaining a high energy, motivated, and super-achieving product management team

. REQUIRED QUALIFICATION FOR THE PRODUCT DIRECTOR:

• BS or MS degree in Engineering, Sciences or Business, and/or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.

• Demonstrated ability in capturing requirements and communicating them in writing and verbally to software engineers and work with a team to rapidly produce prototypes.

• Entrepreneurial experience and familiarity with business issues

• Experience in building Mobile and/or Web Applications

• Proven product management experience

• Strategic thinker combined with the ability to execute

• A minimum of 3 years of product management experience

• Excellent analytical, and problem-solving capabilities

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to work with and influence a variety of groups internally and externally

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in the software industry

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES FOR THE PRODUCT DIRECTOR

The successful candidate must be a leader, not just a manager. Further, this individual must also have the following personal and professional attributes:

• Decisive – The SD should be practiced at and noted for making sound, timely decisions based on a mixture of analysis, experience and judgment.

• Accountable – The SD will take responsibility for decisions and their impact.

• Leadership – The SD’s management and leadership style must be one which empowers staff and peers to use their talents and take action. References will describe the candidate as an executive who encourages growth, achievement and ownership of responsibility among team members.

• Formulation/Expression of an Opinion – Company promotes an environment where creative solutions and opinions are highly valued. As such, the SD should be able to formulate independent opinions, question the status quo and, in a professional manner, challenge opinions held by others.

• Results Oriented – The SD will link decisions to business goals and will operate by keeping the entire enterprise in mind.

• Collaborative – The SD should embrace, support and practice a collaborative style which goes beyond relationship building. S/he will achieve results with and through others.

•Team Oriented – This executive must promote collaboration as well as the sharing and understanding of knowledge across the organization.

• Strategic – The SD will be practiced at setting direction and translating broad strategies into clear business objectives and actions. • Possess unquestionable integrity and an ethical and moral character.

• Communication – Successful candidates will possess exceptional writing and verbal presentation skills enabling her/him to prepare and present information and recommendations to a broad and diverse audience, including peers on the management team, staff, and outside lenders and investors.

JOB LOCATION : NIGERIA

TYPE OF JOB : Permanent

SALARY/BENEFITS : Not specified

APPLICATION DEADLINE : Not specified

TO APPLY : Send your CV to careers@mtechcomm.com