Senior Product Manager

Join the Cabal!

Big Cabal Media tells the African stories that matter to Africans (on and off the continent) and to global audiences. We create content in a wide range of formats for global distribution, under our two publications - TechCabal and Zikoko.

TechCabal vividly captures the players, human impact and business of technology in Africa; providing the content, reporting, data and events to help the world understand where tech is taking Africa.

Zikoko is telling the most important stories that matter to young African audiences today, creating timeless and original text, image, meme and video-based content across a range of genres using the most relatable elements of youth culture.

Join us as we take African storytelling to a new level and build the media brands of the future. BCM is passionate about storytelling, technology, great design and unabashed monetization of great content. We’re interested in talented and adaptable professionals looking to do challenging and high-impact work in a collaborative environment. If this sounds exciting and you’ve got the skills, then we should talk.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager for the BCM Tech division, which runs all our in-house technical projects. The projects you’ll be dealing with will be split between new digital products and maintenance and updates of existing online sites and publications.

The role will ideally need someone that is knowledgeable about running medium-sized digital projects, that has an understanding of technical requirements and has good experience with handling stakeholders and gathering and building requirement specifications. The PM will also manage timelines, secure time and resource commitment from teams delivering towards projects, and ensure projects are delivered in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Product definition; gather input from stakeholders and analyse current use, perceived needs and feasible solutions.
• Assess risks and opportunities with different delivery options and create and manage timelines (with buy-in from stakeholders) for realisation
• Work with teams within BCM to secure resources and time towards delivery of projects (e.g. designs, launch events, programming etc.)
• Continuously evaluate progress, and provide regular status updates to stakeholders

Key Requirements

• Proven experience with digital product management
• Experience with writing technical requirement specifications
• Surface or deeper knowledge of key internet technologies and their capabilities
• Proven ability to work with people from different disciplines (tech, marketing, etc.)
• A good understanding of business requirements for new products (assessing features and requirements in light of return on investment and resource costs)
• Experience visualising project plans using simple Gantt charts or similar techniques

Working at Big Cabal Media You'll be joining a group of focused, hard-working, creative people who are passionate about doing work that's challenging and fun.

We're a very digital company, working via Slack, Google Docs and cloud-based solutions where possible. We currently have a hybrid-remote setup, with most of the team doing two days in the office each week and working remotely the rest of the time. We typically try to arrange work between 9 am and 6 pm WAT and encourage you to have a good work-life balance, but we don’t have a stick up our butt about hours. What we are particular about is quality and results. Our people get things done fast and well.

While collaborative work will be the norm and is the requirement, people who want to work at BCM must also demonstrate initiative and the ability to work without creating more work for their line manager.

Compensation and perks

• Industry competitive salary
• 20 days annual leave
• Statutory pension contribution
• Health insurance
• Flexible working arrangements