Product Strategist, Terramatch, Global Restoration Initiative

What will you need:

• Education:You have a completed bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  
• Experience: You will have 7+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on product strategy and development
  
• Demonstrated experience delivering large scale products through the whole product life cycle
  
• Experience in project management, with experience managing teams and budgets
  
• Experience with user experience research, product design and development, and usability testing
  
• Knowledge of best practices on product development lifecycles
  
• Experience in stakeholder management
  
• Experience with vendor sourcing and management
  
• Experience coaching and mentoring staff on product management tools and approaches
  
• Languages: You are proficient in written and spoken English
  
• Requirements:Existing work authorization is required if you would like to be based in Kenya.
  

What will you need:

• Education:You have a completed bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  
• Experience: You will have 7+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on product strategy and development
  
• Demonstrated experience delivering large scale products through the whole product life cycle
  
• Experience in project management, with experience managing teams and budgets
  
• Experience with user experience research, product design and development, and usability testing
  
• Knowledge of best practices on product development lifecycles
  
• Experience in stakeholder management
  
• Experience with vendor sourcing and management
  
• Experience coaching and mentoring staff on product management tools and approaches
  
• Languages: You are proficient in written and spoken English
  
• Requirements:Existing work authorization is required if you would like to be based in Kenya.
  

Product Strategy (40%):

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for Restoration Registries, in partnership with technical teams
  
• Work with the Restoration Initiative team to refine their strategy and translate user demands into product features
  
• Listen to stakeholders to understand needs and use cases and distill opportunities
  
• Identify unmet market needs and develop a strategy for new tool development to meet those needs
  
• Conduct market analysis to understand availability of other tools on the market and how WRI’s tools compare
  
• Coach and mentor Restoration staff on product management tools and approaches
  

User Experience Research (30%):

• Oversee and conduct user research, plan functional and usability testing, develop test plans, and conduct testing for TerraMatch, Restoration Registries, and other programs
  
• Design and implement plans for user research and usability testing and use results to determine product strategy and development roadmap
  
• Listen to stakeholders to understand needs and use cases and distill opportunities for development of new tools
  

Product Development (30%): 

• Lead product design and development of the Restoration Registries
  
• Support the product design and development of TerraMatch Building Programmes with external stakeholders, ensuring internal and external needs are met in line with the project's theory of change
  
• Actively manage vendors, resource allocation, schedules, and priorities to ensure project commitments are met
  
• Represent the TerraMatch product team to internal and external stakeholders.