Founded in 2018, MaxAB is a rapidly growing food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform that serves a network of traditional retailers (mom-and-pop stores) across the MENA region. Using proprietary technology, MaxAB offers a transformative pull-driven supply chain and a tech-product that empowers both traditional retailers and suppliers. MaxAB offers traditional retailers the simplicity of dealing with one supplier, transparent pricing, on-demand delivery, and a range of value-added and embedded finance solutions. Suppliers benefit from MaxAB’s end-to-end supply chain solutions and business intelligence tools that allow them to accurately predict, monitor, and control the impact of their strategies in real time.
Our MaxAB talent are dedicated to uphold the MaxAB culture and values all while continuing to grow and improve services for our clients. They are innovating new ways to help improve the quality of life of the Egyptian retailer and soon to other retailers globally.
If you are passionate about working hard to make an impact and innovate new solutions, MaxAB is looking for top talent
Product team
The Product team is the bridge between users (internal and external) and the Tech team. Our mandate is to ensure that MaxAB is building the most useful technology at the highest quality and steepest velocity.
Job Summary
You will be tasked with driving the development and release of operational products, prioritizing features, performing analytics, prototyping and designing experiments.
Job Description & Key Responsibilities
Your day-to-day will, therefore, involve:
- Researching our operations to understand the most relevant and impactful product features
- Working closely with the Tech team to create stories and ingest it into sprints
- Working closely with the data team to build models, pipelines and data products
- Perform pre/post analytics to report impact as well as run experiments and A/B tests
- Training business teams on the new features
- Monitoring impact of feature and running route cause analysis (with relevant stakeholders) in case of bugs / unexpected issues
- Share post-release analysis and feedback
- Develop solutions to improve product quality and workflow
- Research new tools , algorithms and frameworks to benefit the product team
Core competencies
Execution:
- Logical and highly analytical:
- Independently capable of researching users and business owners to generate feature requirements
- Independently capable understanding complex problems
- Formulating plans to tackle it
- Executing plan
- Keen eye for detail
- Driving incrementality
- Inquisitive and adept with software development
- Eager to continuously learn about tech and up to date with new innovations
- Not close minded to a single approach
- Break down big problems into simpler ones
- Prioritize tasks
- Able to manage time between various tasks and meetings
- Organized
- Eager to write clean and documented code
- High sense of ownership
- Can work autonomously
- Self driven
- Team player with special care to the individual tasks
- High communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Active listener
- Can deal with different personalities with different backgrounds
- Experience, knowledge and skills required
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science or Economics
- Master’s degree is preferred
Experience
- 3-5 years of experience in a Technical Product Manager role
- Knowledge and experience in Operations Research and Optimization algorithms
- Good grasp of data science and machine learning topics
- Experience managing multiple projects
Technical or specific skills
- Fluent written and spoken Arabic and English
- Proficient with Google Docs, Sheets and Slides
- Proficient in SQL and any high level programming language eg. Java, C++, C#, etc.
- Proficient in Python, Pandas
- Experience with version control (Git)
- Experience with a variety of technology stacks
- Understanding of Agile and Scrum