App Project & Product Manager(Not remotely):

• Own and drive KITABA Mobile App evolution.
• Act as the “voice of the customer” and “voice of the user” and provide a business perspective on the value of the product roadmap and backlog.
• Work with business stakeholders to align on a product vision, strategy, and roadmap for/her product area in support of management goals and objectives
• Prioritize app features and translate them from the roadmap into a product backlog.
• Work with business stakeholders to draft the requirements, design UI/UX, and move them to the development pipeline
• Manages driving a product through its entire development cycle, from concept to launch to lifecycle management, with a strong focus on details while never losing sight of the big picture
• Analyzes and develops differentiation against key competitors by understanding the market landscape, emerging technology, and customer needs and trends.
• Act as the Project Manager by managing a team of developers, planning and executing sprints, mitigating risks, escalating issues, and track defects, and managing app versions and releases.
• Work with the Content team to execute content production plans, review content, and approve publishing to the production App.
• Manage app team workload using JIRA, Asana, and Upwork platform
• Arrange and chair all Agile meetings, including daily standup calls, sprint planning, release planning, and sprint retrospective.
• Monitor the team’s conformance to HR attending and working hours policies, review and approve timesheets and report violations to HR.
• Evaluate project team performance
• Assess current team capacity and work with the HR team to recruit the required talents
• Generate and maintain all the required project documentation
• Work with the customer care team to understand customer pain points, issues, and complaints and translate them into trackable solutions, bridging the gap with other teams.

Education/Skills/Qualification

• Minimum 5 years in Software Project management and at least 3 years in Mobile App Project management
• Minimum 5 years of Customer and UX-focused product management experience, ideally focusing on mobile apps
• Demonstrated success in executing and directing project and product management activities in multiple areas
• The ideal candidate has experience in designing, implementing, and iterating on consumer experiences in the area of Photo and Video editing, graphic design apps, social media, and social media content production
• An ideal candidate must have technical and operations skills to understand the implications of data, back-end services, and operations on the user experience and vice versa
• The ideal candidates must have a good understanding of the middle east and gulf region and the common taste of users in these areas. Fully aware of the cultural differences while driving the product roadmap
• Proven skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ability to influence others to support decisions
• Ability to be self-directed to solve business issues in the defined product area
• Ability to make decisions about and prioritize own work
• Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, preferably with experience at a startup or highly dynamic environment
• Ability to learn multiple functional areas of business, including engineering, design, finance, sales, and marketing
• Drive to become the subject matter expert in your product area and be the “go-to” person and subject matter expert.
• Communicates effectively and listens activel

About the role:

• The job location is in our office in Alexandria, Egypt. 
• Candidate must owe a modern laptop equipped with a web came 
• Candidate must owe his own iOS and Android devices

Work location:

This is in office work, not remotely. Office Location: Alexandria, Egypt