Product Developer

Apply if you want to develop and launch products and services that excite you!

Seefar is not your normal organisation. We incubate and launch new products and services all over the world. Our people travel and work everywhere from Afghanistan and Iraq to Barbados and London. We deploy the toolkit from profit-driven corporations and apply it to our non-profit social mission of providing opportunities for vulnerable people all over the world. We have raised over $50m for products and services and used the proceeds to support more than one million beneficiaries, including victims of human trafficking; refugees and survivors of gender based violence.

As a Product Developer at Seefar, you will be part of a special team tasked with ensuring the success of multiple products and services. A particular focus will be on consumer facing products and services that accelerate the drawdown of carbon from Earth’s atmosphere. You will be proud of the impact you create, the things you will learn and the fun you will have. We are looking for an action + impact orientated achiever with a degree in business/product/marketing or innovation, along with 1-2 years of relevant professional experience. This is an initial six-month contract position, working remotely from wherever in the world you like.

Job Description

We are a social enterprise with a vision for a world where vulnerable people have more opportunities to advance themselves. We work with some of the most vulnerable populations whose situations are impacted more and more by climate change. Climate change has become a hidden driver of migration, human trafficking, displacement, extremism and social exclusion in many contexts, as well as being one of humanity’s greatest challenges in its own right. We work in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, East Africa, North Africa, the Sahel and Europe. For more information about us, please visit http://seefar.org/about-us

Over the past two years Seefar has been incubating and launching multiple commercial activities in the counselling, health, sports fitness, recruitment and environmental sectors. All of these initiatives support our mission of providing opportunities for some of the most vulnerable people in the world, while also producing revenue we can reinvest into our beneficiary driven services.

This role demands someone who is smart, intrinsically motivated, worldly and interested in hard challenges. Seefar has a bias towards action + impact and you should share this instinct.

We are looking for someone with:

• An instinct and the leadership sense to drive towards action + impact.
• A business, innovation, product, marketing and/or relevant degree.
• 1-2 years professional experience or exposure in the design, development and launch stages of product management.
• Experience or knowledge of segmenting and targeting markets.
• A passion for using business to achieve impact in the world.
• Motivation to learn, develop, and grow to achieve, with an openness to new places and cultures, and high comfort working with a diverse, geographically spread team.
• Comfort learning and adapting to new software, and a willingness to communicate using Skype.
• Complete fluency in oral and written English.

The following are the primary responsibilities of the role, with estimated allocations of time and attention.

Responsibilities

The following are the primary responsibilities of the role, with estimated allocations of time and attention.

Deliver: Product and Service Development

Approximately 100% of your time and attention will be spent developing and launching new products and services from design stage to results including:

• Help prioritise the services and products to develop and launch.
• Rapidly launch betas for market testing and iteration.
• Lead the go-to-market strategy.
• Collect and analyse data to segment and target markets.
• Writing design specs, content and copy.
• Coordinate development and launch activities including supporting marketing strategies
• Monetising products and services through designing and driving sales strategies
• Supervising suppliers including geographically dispersed engineering teams and web/app developers.
• Analysing data-driven marketing and results insights.
• Other tasks as required.

Direct: Global Management

• Representing and demonstrating the Enterprise’s values.
• Cooperating with other areas of the Enterprise to support corporate management overall. For example, adhering to financial and HR procedures.

Working with Seefar

Current and former personnel have noted the points below as positive features of Seefar’s work environment and culture:

• The Enterprise combines entrepreneurialism with a focus on social impact.
• You work with highly diverse people and across a diversity of contexts.
• There is a high level of trust that supports you to work autonomously.
• The people in the Enterprise encourage innovation and experimentation.
• Achieving results is prioritised over rigid structures and workflows.
• You are never bored and always challenged.

Current and former personnel have noted the points below as negative features of Seefar’s work environment and culture:

• Collaborating with geographically dispersed teams requires flexibility and patience.
• Working remotely can make you feel isolated and so requires you to invest time in communication.
• Travel schedules can sometimes be heavy.
• A high-growth phase means problem-solving as the Enterprise’s systems evolve quickly.
• It is a fast paced work environment so productivity and prioritisation skills are essential.

An Excellent Candidate

To excel in this role, you will have creativity, flair and personality while also being able to deliver. You excelled in your degree, which gave you the foundation to excel in your professional career. You realise you want more from your career – more positive impact on the world, more autonomy creatively and more challenging assignments. You have a bias towards action + impact and have exposure to the full range of product management tools, with a strong desire to be innovative and experimental. You recognise the importance of being highly organised, prioritising, and being highly productive. You enjoy travelling, have spent time outside of your country of origin, and are motivated by an Enterprise performance framework focused on social impact.

Seefar will take into account the difficulties some applicants, such as displaced persons and those living in conflict-affected zones, may face in fulfilling the requirements outlined above. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.