Vectar Energy is a sustainable energy development company invested in integrating CleanTech with FinTech, delivering incentivized, low carbon, data-driven, and cost-effective energy solutions to our clients.
We are recruting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Operations Associate
Location: Nigeria
Duration: 3 months contract with a potential to become permanent employment
Terms: 40% ONSITE, 60% Remote, 50 hours per week
Job Description
- We are looking for a high performing individual to join our rapidly growing team in the delivery of our services, comfortable working autonomously across a wide range of activities.
- Vectar Energy is a sustainable energy development company invested in integrating Clean Tech with FinTech, delivering incentivized, low carbon, data-driven, and cost effective energy solutions to our clients.
Role
The position involves 3 steps as outlined below, though the approach may be steered somewhat by further discussion as the project progresses:
Project Management:
- Identify opportunities,and scope different client markets towards the delivery of our products to end users and partnerships to deliver the bottomline
- Build databases of the leads thus discovered having essential information around client information
- Aid in strategic consulting of our different projects by identifying scope where projects can be further benefited thereby bringing an upsell to the organization.
- Follow up on tasks and deliverables across all departments
- Scout and apply for opportunities on behalf of the organisation
Support:
- Meetings with potential B2C & B2B clients , and pitch the offerings that we can offer to clients and partners
- Maintain good relationships with partners and suppliers and keep an open communication with them to understand their requirements and always be on top of their minds when they require our help.
- Provide overall assistance in day to day activities
- Performing administrative tasks, assisting with other company departments as needed, and ensuring smooth daily operations and managing company executives and other team members
- Maintaining company databases
- Provide operational and administrative support activities for the organization of internal management and operational meetings
Knowledge Management:
- Be abreast of the developments that are happening in the renewable energy industry and carbon offsetting markets.
- Be aware of governmental laws relating to renewable energy projects
- Ample experience in grant writing, venture capitalism, and startups.
Person Requirements
- Relevant Bachelor’s Degree
- We are looking for an individual with very good organizational skills who can work efficiently and quickly but with a strong attention to detail. The ideal person has to be a self starter, result oriented and love to see things grow.
Essential Skills:
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite
- Self starter and passionate about growth
- Ability to explain complex information in a clear and logical way
- Analytical mind and attention to detail
- Team player
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Desirable:
- Experience in business development and outreach campaigns
- Business oriented mindset
- Proactive and self-starter
- Comfortable with a variety of responsibilities
- Comfortable with a minimal amount of direction but high expectations
- Fits the Vectar culture (people-oriented, result-oriented, Can do attitude, adaptable, supportive, creative, passionate)
- Strong interest in the discourse around technology, startups, entrepreneurship, venture capital
- Proven attention to detail through prior work or life experience
- Experience in event planning and event logistics
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV with an attractive cover letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note
- Any application without a cover letter will be automatically discarded
- We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration. Women are strongly encouraged to apply
Application Deadline 6th January, 2022.
Job Title: Technical Product Manager
Location: Nigeria
Duration: 45 days contract with a potential to become permanent employment
Introduction
- We are hiring a Technical Product Manager to join Vectar Energy. The Product Manager will work at the intersection of Engineering, the CIO’s office, Sales and Marketing to specify and productize our innovative technology solution.
- This person will manage a multi-layered product with software, hardware, networking, and training elements.
- The Product Manager will help define the long-term product roadmap, as well as the process by which priorities are set for the next features and other technical improvements to our software.
- It will also involve market research and interfacing with both customers and partners in this cross functional and high impact role.
Responsibilities
- Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel
- Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones
- Hold regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects
- Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for staff members required for specific projects or initiatives
- Able To Assess Emerging Products And Companies To Measure Their Potential Value Or Threat To The Company And Its Products, As Well As Make Recommendations On Which New Technologies To Invest In Or Leverage.
- Act as a primary liaison between product and engineering teams
- Manage and review product requirements within the team and provide feedback to product management and other stakeholders
- Define engineering user stories, maintain and prioritize product backlog.
- Determine tasks for the developers / engineering team based on the product prioritization.
- Keep a good communication framework across the company through documentation
- Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
- Continuously evaluate product development progress through each phase and determine if the final deliverable meets or exceeds the expectations and is ready to be delivered.
- Perform product demos to customers
- Document requirements as user stories and acceptance criteria in a scrum backlog or in traditional requirements formats
- Translate complex business problems into easily digestible narratives
- Participate in the development process by providing just in time feedback and clarification to developers regarding requirements contained in the current development sprint
- Align on key business goals and customer needs for each product initiative and provide strategic product direction
- Research and evaluate hardware and software technology options and weigh the cost/benefit analysis when making large purchases on behalf of the company
- Update and maintain all production technologies ensuring proper maintenance and installation
- Create Buy-In For The Product Vision Both Internally And With Key External Partners
- Ability To Work Well With Internal Teams, Including Developers, Engineers, Architects, Quality Assurance, And Operations. Ensure Requirements Are Fully Understood And That Implementation Plans Match Expectations.
- Translate Product Strategy Into Detailed Requirements And Prototypes
- Scope And Prioritize Activities Based On Business And Customer Impact
- Understand, Research, And Follow Technology Trends In The Industry And In General.
- Partner with executive-level stakeholders and the development team to define, deliver, and advance the product roadmap.
- Leverage analytics, surveys, competitive analysis, and user interviews to identify areas of opportunity or improvement.
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
- Exceptional ROI-tracking skills, able to prove what is –or isn’t—working
- Develop and execute a product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and go-to-market plans in partnership with business objectives
- Facilitate communication between Frontend and Backend development teams, DevOps Engineers, UI/UX Designers and clients
- Assist development team in removing blockers and getting questions answered
- Partner with engineers and designers to ideate, prioritize and deliver great solutions for our customers
Skills, Requirements and Qualifications
- Engineering Degree required but not compulsory
- Two years of technical product management of a software product that has shipped to paying customers
- Technical understanding of software, hardware, and energy(clean tech)
- Experience in Fintech is a plus
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, start up environment
- Comfortable taking ownership of critical product decisions that will mean the success or failure of our flagship product
- Experience with the Agile development process
- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
- Proven ability to assess and address technical risks.
- Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
- Proficient in productivity applications such as Microsoft Office, Project or Basecamp.
- Familiarity with solar energy, utilities and carbon credit are a plus
- Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
- Proven ability to assess and address technical risks.
- Proven ability to facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.
- Professional project management certification from accredited intuition preferred
- Demonstrated understanding of project management processes, strategies and methods
- Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
- Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
- Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
- Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
- Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
- Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV with an attractive cover letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note
- Any application without a cover letter will be automatically discarded
- We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
- As an early stage company, you will have a significant impact on the progress of the company. You should be both collaborative and a self-starter who cannot wait to shine in an entrepreneurial environment
Application Deadline 6th January, 2022.
Job Title: Mobile Developer
Location: Nigeria
Duration: 45 days contract
Introduction
- We are looking for a skilled mobile developer with prior developing experience to create and maintain mobile applications for Android, iOS, and Windows devices.
- The mobile developer’s responsibilities include researching UI and UX trends, and working with colleagues to brainstorm innovative ideas for our new application, combining UI and UX with insight into the latest technology in cross mobile applications.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain cross platform mobile applications.
- Keep abreast of the latest technology for mobile applications.
- Create UI tests to source analytics.
- Ensure application meet quality standards.
- Research and suggest strategies to deliver our application.
- Stay up-to-date with new technology trends.
- Developing new features and user interfaces from wireframe models and Mockups
- Work as part of a small team to build React Native iOS / Android/windows applications.
- Implement pixel perfect UI’s that match designs.
- Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
- Integrate third-party API’s.
- Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
- Assist with building estimates.
- Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support).
- Produce fully functional mobile applications writing clean code.
- Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions.
- Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions.
- Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance.
- Design interfaces to improve user experience.
- Liaise with the Product development team to plan and develop features.
- Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional experience working as a mobile developer.
- Proficient knowledge of relevant computer languages for Android, iOS, and Windows devices.
- A portfolio of applications you have created or contributed to.
- Ability to multitask.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Good knowledge of flutter and/or Kotlin
- Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
- Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon, both in regards to estimates and to the general process.
- An understanding of best practices and a commitment to following them.
- A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
- Forensic attention to detail.
- Communication skills
- A willingness to explain your code
- Experience using maintainable code architectures
- Experience developing using Test-Driven Development
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle
- Experience launching apps to both the Google Playstore and Apple AppStore with best practices and requirements
- Experience implementing payment APIs (Extra points for Paystack or Flutterwave APIs)
- Experience implementing a chat feature in an application.
- Proof of previous successes
- A good working knowledge of data structures, algorithms and performance complexity analysis
- Experience with Git as a VCS
- Experience interacting with APIs
- Familiarity with designing an API
- Understanding of best practices for multithreading and performance optimization
- Experience using token-based authentication
- Experience writing clean and readable code
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV with an attractive cover letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note
- Any application without a cover letter will be automatically discarded
- We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration. Women are strongly encouraged to apply
Application Deadline 6th January, 2022.
Important Notes
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work to be performed by people assigned to this job.
They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
All personnel may be required to perform other responsibilities in addition to those specified from time to time, as needed
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• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity inclusion. We do not discriminate on grounds of colour, race, nationality, religion, age, ethnic origin, disability, gender, marital status, or sexual orientation in our employment practices
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• We encourage all applicants to apply and does not practice any discrimination in any recruitment process.
• Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
• Due to the urgency of the position, we have the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline
• Only qualified candidates will be invited for interview
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