Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business or equivalent degree
4-6 years of experience leading agile projects as a product owner and/or product manager
Experience leading product and/or cross functional teams
Experience as both a team member and coach in the agile product owner roles
Experience with building consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
Strong product instinct to build great product vision, product roadmap and competitive analysis
Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g., test driven development, continuous integration, etc.)
Excellent knowledge on tracking and analytics setup
Proficient with drawing storyboards, creating wireframes, creating or grooming product backlogs, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria
Relentless prioritization and alignment with business and IT stakeholders to ensure highest value capture
Excellent project manager that can plan 2-3 steps ahead of the team and surface hidden risks 2-3 levels deep within the team
Ability to work at an abstract level and continuously ‘pivot’ to arrive at the highest impact answer for the client
Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effective and not get overwhelmed by client pressures on team
Excellent analytical skills, and data driven approach to constantly analyse user feedback and analytics report
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on transforming towards agile
Ability to move between strategic discussions with senior client leaders to tackle on the ground agile coaching with teams
Experience working with design team to deliver top user experience (UX) and user interface (UI)
Willingness to travel
Who You’ll Work WithYou’ll work with McKinsey Digital in our Nairobi, Kenya office.McKinsey Digital brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. As part of this group, you’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm.You’ll also work with colleagues from across our firm to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics. Our office culture is casual, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.
What You’ll DoYou will lead the execution of digital product development and transformation projects for leading industry players in the region.You will be a core member of the McKinsey consulting team with responsibilities that range from shaping product vision, strategic designs to managing and transforming agile product and leadership teams. In this role, you will engage on some of the most challenging business problems facing our clients. These projects can range from rapid process re-inventions at leading financial institutions, ‘big data’ analytics at large scale retail organizations, to consumer facing app development for traditional industries. In each situation, as a Product Owner, you will typically be at the centre of the problem solving, advising our most senior clients on how to successful execute on their strategic vision with digital means.You will leverage your experience with all aspects of the product, process and technology. You will be at the intersection of business strategy, client and implementation vendors and you’ll be responsible for translating abstract visions into reality, while managing client expectations as well as vendor efficiency. You will also leverage your proficiency in all aspects of the agile deliverables required for a technology team to build beautiful products. This includes hands on development of storyboards, wireframes, product prioritization, backlog, user stories, product KPI, monitoring/tracking and commercialization.
