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Product Manager - Crop Insights Portal (B2B product)
Job Description
Impact Terra is powered by a visionary and hardworking team with backgrounds in management consulting, product development, business building, big-data and agronomy. Our people have worked at organisations like McKinsey & Company, Rocket Internet, Deloitte and Yezin University. We value entrepreneurship, dedication and adventure. We embrace challenge, work closely as a team to achieve meaningful results and are pragmatic and open to change.
We are focused on uplifting the poorest individuals in emerging markets in a sustainable way. We love innovation and technology and envision a world where a thriving and sustainable smallholder agriculture sector exists to ensure food security for the future. Our mission is to digitally empower smallholder farmers around the world. As a cutting-edge technology company, we develop products and services that can help millions of people.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the growth of a social business that is set for invaluable social impact and strong financial returns, with significant personal gain in the form of compensation and an exceptional learning experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Product Manager is responsible for the technical and commercial development of the Golden Paddy Crop Insights (GPCI) portal. The GPCI is Impact Terra’s main B2B product. Customers include financial institutions, input manufacturers and crop trading organizations. They use the platform to monitor past, present and future crop performance and identify key farming risks, such as extreme weather events, pest/disease outbreaks, floods and droughts. This allows these customers to set strategies, optimise operations and mitigate risks.
The Product Manager is responsible for the development, deployment and maintenance of the portal. The Manager continuously incorporates customer feedback, internal feedback and learnings from industry benchmarks into the product. The Product Manager researches best practices for interface (UI/UX) and service development, manages development efforts (from UI/UX design to front- and back-end development) and ensures business and customer requirements are met. This includes translating customer requirements into product features, defining the product roadmap, and working closely with engineering, sales and marketing to ensure superior value is delivered to customers.Project and/or program management, including reporting and maintaining partnerships.
The candidate should be a visionary entrepreneur with a no-nonsense, critical and constructive attitude whose responsibilities include:
We are focused on uplifting the poorest individuals in emerging markets in a sustainable way. We love innovation and technology and envision a world where a thriving and sustainable smallholder agriculture sector exists to ensure food security for the future. Our mission is to digitally empower smallholder farmers around the world. As a cutting-edge technology company, we develop products and services that can help millions of people.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the growth of a social business that is set for invaluable social impact and strong financial returns, with significant personal gain in the form of compensation and an exceptional learning experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Product Manager is responsible for the technical and commercial development of the Golden Paddy Crop Insights (GPCI) portal. The GPCI is Impact Terra’s main B2B product. Customers include financial institutions, input manufacturers and crop trading organizations. They use the platform to monitor past, present and future crop performance and identify key farming risks, such as extreme weather events, pest/disease outbreaks, floods and droughts. This allows these customers to set strategies, optimise operations and mitigate risks.
The Product Manager is responsible for the development, deployment and maintenance of the portal. The Manager continuously incorporates customer feedback, internal feedback and learnings from industry benchmarks into the product. The Product Manager researches best practices for interface (UI/UX) and service development, manages development efforts (from UI/UX design to front- and back-end development) and ensures business and customer requirements are met. This includes translating customer requirements into product features, defining the product roadmap, and working closely with engineering, sales and marketing to ensure superior value is delivered to customers.Project and/or program management, including reporting and maintaining partnerships.
The candidate should be a visionary entrepreneur with a no-nonsense, critical and constructive attitude whose responsibilities include:
- Own and maintain a clear product strategy and roadmap to guarantee an effective decision making process with the CEO and Management team
- Drive development of user services, including use cases, service models and required product features to deliver these services
- Drive technical development of the product, including design, development, user acceptance testing and deployment
- Drive commercial development of the product and services, including pitching the product to customers and on-boarding customers to the product
- Ensure product-market fit, speed to market and cost to market
- Coordinate with Farmer Services Department, including senior agronomists
- Coordinate with Product Development Department, including developers, and UX designers
- Coordinate with Business Development Department, including sales agents
REQUIREMENTS
- Preferably based in Yangon, Myanmar – remote work can be discussed
- Demonstrated success in project management for delivering software products
- Demonstrated success in user-centered design, ensuring value creation for users
- Demonstrated success in designing, developing and operating products at low-cost
- Strong understanding of front-end (web) and back-end (Java, Python) technologies
- Excellent vendor management practices
- Ability to liaise with customers, ranging from financial institutions and agricultural companies to non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong leadership capabilities
SOFT SKILLS
- Highly motivated to learn and pick up new skills
- Strong entrepreneurial drive and focus on results and achievements and work under pressure
- Culturally sensitive
- Robust personality and able to handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Preferred agricultural understanding
- Alignment with Impact Terra’s values
Office location
Mimosa Office Building, 1st Floor, Shwe Gon Taing Street 5, Yangon Myanmar
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