Research Associate

Your Role

Your role will be to support the planning, design and execution of research activities across KOKO Labs by coordinating logistical planning for field work, collecting quantitative and qualitative product or user information, synthesizing customer and product research, gathering requirements, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

What you will do

Research

Help identify market needs and translate them into requirements for new products or new features to existing products.
Review and undertake market and competitor review.
Act as the point-person for coordinating field trials, demos, and focus group sessions.

Product Development

Work with the research and design team to define product offerings, including pricing, market, positioning, target customer segments and placement.
Help create and maintain product requirements documents.
Work closely with engineers to elaborate on product concepts and develop prototypes based on requirements.
Coordinate, manage and report on user testing of prototypes.
Provide operational support for ongoing product efforts.
Participate in the quality assurance process for products under development.

Administrative Support

Support planning and proactive preparation to keep projects on schedule.
Participate in planning and tracking project progress & budgets.

What you will bring to KOKO

Bachelor’s degree
At least 2 years of field and desk-based market research experience
Good knowledge of Nairobi neighborhoods; particularly informal settlements
Computer savvy, with good MS Office / Google Docs skills
Fluent in English and Swahili

If you share our passion for technology and our vision for global impact, we strongly encourage you to apply!

Apply via :

jobs.lever.co

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