Product Manager Opportunity

Client OLX Published 23/04/2015 Contract Type Permanent Salary Negotiable Location Western Cape >> Cape Town Introduction What do you expect from your job? Building the next awesome social-video-feed-speed-clone? Developing the next flappy-bird? Or rather deploying all your skills to build modern solutions with a superb team; solutions that reach and improve the lives of many people? If it is the latter, we want to meet you.
We offer the career opportunities that will excite you: opportunities that span Southern, Eastern and Western regions of Africa all based in Cape Town.
Job Functions Information Technology,Product Management,Quality Control Industries Ecommerce,Information Technology Specification

Skills and Competencies:

• For developers we prefer you to have competency in a modern development language
Our stack is pretty conventional:
(LAMP, HTML5/CSS, Android)

• We also use and love modern technologies that help make large scale web/mobile development easier:
(Docker, Git, Riak, memcached, Solr)

• Designers, if you are good with Adobe Creative suite, you should be ok – portfolios (ie LINKS) will help a lot.

Qualifications:

• We love self taught and/or degreed developers, designers and product people
• What is more important is what does your portfolio look like? Did you build a time travel app? Did you solve a real problem with only an SMS service? Please send your links/apk/github/wireframe/reddit conversation/design – we are looking for heads and hearts, not specific qualifications.

Personal characteristics and values.

• Be Fast: Eager and motivated to meet deadlines, and have the ability to work under pressure
• Be Empowered:Self-motivated and able to work independently with little management supervision
• Be Open: Have a non-hierarchical style and be prepared to “roll up their sleeves” and make things happen
• Be innovative: By building on each other; be a team player with self-esteem yet a manageable ego
• Be Curious: Continue to learn and seek for the best solutions – See more at: https://jb.skillsmapafrica.com/Job/Index/5630_indeed#sthash.tYbxk1Ft.dpuf