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[Apply] Product Manager for Online Platform, EnrolledAgent.com
EnrolledAgent.com is an online marketplace for tax professionals. Our goal is to create an environment where anyone can access licensed tax professionals with ease. We also seek to promote the Enrolled Agent brand and be a resource platform for all tax professionals.
Product Manager – Online Platform
Job Description
The Product Manager is responsible for both product planning and product marketing. This includes managing the product throughout the Product Lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, to deliver winning products. It also includes working with sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product and marketing efforts support the company’s overall strategy and goals.
The Product Manager is expected to:
- Define the product strategy and roadmap
- Deliver Market Requirements Document, and Product Requirements Document with prioritized features and corresponding justification
- Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
- Be an expert with respect to the competition
- Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product
- Perform product demos to customers
- Set pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
- Deliver a monthly productivity forecast
- Develop sales tools and collateral
- Propose an overall budget to ensure success
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Product Manager or Product Marketing Manager
- Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred)
- Technical background, with experience in online product development / management
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
How To Apply
Email resume/CV to info@enrolledagent.com
Please send by Friday Oct 29, 2021.
Be undefined because you have DEFINED yourself
Words matter – pay attention to what you tell others. As a kid in the village, some friends used to tease, “your eyes are big”. One day, I made it home and asked my mother, “why do they say that”. She replied, “you need big eyes to see mathematics better”. The next day that came, I had a good answer, “with my big eyes, I see mathematics better”; I actually did as that was the only reason I liked school. One went home and wept that he needed bigger eyes too! (My eyes seem normal though but rabbit bush hunting, feeding smoke into the burrows, did many things to the eyes!.)
But here is the message: how you react to words from men and women is more important than what they say. My initiation in America was a Walmart clerk telling me insultingly that I had an accent. My response: “That is fine but yours is an accented version of the real English invented in England”. Her mouth opened because I just told her that even her English was not the original.
Do not allow words from distractors to define your destiny. The most unfortunate thing in the world is associating prestige, influence and relevance to how people earn a living, thereby making it possible for people to define the worlds of others. But you could be undefined!
Yes, be undefined by others because you have DEFINED yourself. It is a fact as in mathematics because problems are largely solved after the variables have been clearly mapped and defined!
Be inspired by others but try to live your life
The world seems like it is falling apart and nothing seems to work. The job has not come. I read lines like “my career is in a mess” from members these days. I have these words today for you: do not be too hard on yourself. If you look deeper, you are making progress. To get to that next level you are dreaming, you must use the progress you have made ALREADY.
Most times, our success was past tense and always forgotten because the next level has not come! How would you move to the next level when the already achieved progress has been discarded? She made Second Class Lower (2.2) in college, and the god is now 2.2. For her, she has not achieved anything. Unless you see that 2.2 as progress, that next level would not come.
You see this man in this photo? He has a small template on how to live in our time. When ABU Zaria confirmed his degree that he made a 3rd class, the next day he wore an academic gown to the Senate, celebrating his win. Call him names, he built on that and he has a life today.
There is no job/office someone has not resigned from. If you look deeper, most things mean nothing. But we can make ourselves something. Do not be too hard on yourself – you are making progress! But keep pushing! Be inspired by others but try to live your life.
Comment on LinkedIn Post
Comment: Thank you, Prof. Ndubuisi Ekekwe. I think another issue is the comparison between where one is and where one thinks one should be at that time. Suddenly, all other successes don’t matter because I am not even where I think I should be by now.
My Response: Absolutely. That is the issue. We can indeed get to that next level but it is key we appreciate how far we have come. I do not see how one can progress if one does not like himself or herself. Yes, people do “hate” themselves making things harder to advance. My perspective in career changed when as a young banker in Lagos, the bank hired a senior manager who lasted just 3 days. The rumour was that he did not like banking job because he could not get home early for dinner with his family. He was hired from one of the FMCGs, possibly with bigger pay. But he dropped all those for family dinner! Yet, that is the same job many would work if allowed 24/7 to keep.
Insulting the President is not an Offense
Insulting the president is not an offense.
As the trial of the leader of Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu continues, he was before the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial division on Thursday, 21st of October, 2021 where seven amended charges was brought against him. One of the charges was quite controversial and has gained wild attention of people including that of the media forcing people to ask if insulting the president is a crime or an offense provided for under any Nigerian law
The controversial second count reads;
Count Two:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area ot Abia State, on or about the 28th April, 2015 in London, United Kingdom did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, referred to Major General Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a pedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil, knowing same to be false and you thereby committed an offense contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C. 77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
Was the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu under that Count Two actually charged for insulting the president of Nigeria who is a public official?, Is it really a crime or an offense provided in Nigerian law(s) to insult the president, the Governor or any other public official?
S.375 of the Criminal Code Act which they count two charge was brought under reads;
Publication of defamatory matter
Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, any person who publishes any defamatory matter, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is liable to imprisonment for one year; and any person who publishes any defamatory matter knowing it to be false, is liable to imprisonment for two years.
It is therefore pertinent that the misconceptions be cleared that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was not charged for insulting the president as many believed but he was charged under that count for the publication of defamation which is punishable under s.375 of the Criminal Code Act.
Insulting the president, state Governor or any other public official is not an offense provided under any Nigerian law and according to s.36(12) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, nobody should be charged or punished for any offense or alleged offense that is not provided for in any extant law in Nigeria.
So people should note that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was not charged under count two for insulting the president rather for publication of defamatory statements.
It has been held in plethora of cases by the court that a public official cannot sue while in office for insults or derogatory statements made against his person. In the case of OMEGA BANK PLC V GOVT OF EKITI STATE (2007) 16 NWLR (PT. 1061) 445 AT 478 – 479 PARA. E (CA), the Court held that “…in view of the personal nature of libel actions, public officers have no right to sue or be sued for libel. In the instant case, the respondent being public officers had no right of action in libel”,” he said in a statement.
“The idea that an organ of government or public officers cannot sue for defamation is premised on the ground that state resources must never be deployed against citizens to intimidate them into silence.
“It will be against the public interest for government/public officers to use the tax paid by the people to institute actions against them in libel. If right of action is granted to the government /public officers to maintain an action in libel.” the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression will be curtailed.
The rest of the charges brought against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) read;
Count One:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu lbeku Umahia North Local Government Area of Abia State being the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, preparations made by you and others now at large for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue States to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into the Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 41(c) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
Count Two:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area ot Abia State, on or about the 28th April, 2015 in London, United Kingdom did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, referred to Major General Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a paedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil, knowing same to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C. 77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
Count Three:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu lbeku Umahia North Local Government Area of Abia State between the month of March and April 2015 imported into Nigeria and kept in Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court , a Radio transmitter known as TRAM 50L concealed in a container of used household which you declared as used household items and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 47 (2) of the Criminal Code of Act ,Cap C45, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
Count Four:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult. of Afaraukwu iIbeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State in London, United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021 Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and FCT, Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, professed to be a member of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed organisation in Nigeria and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 16 Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.
Count Five:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State on the 22th of April, 2021 in London, United Kingdom on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did an act of terrorism in that you incite the other members (followers) of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB}, a proscribed organisation in Nigeria, to look for security personnel, their family members through a Radio Biafra on 102.1FM monitored through the IPOB Community Radio and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1 (2) (h) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act.
Count Six:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia Stale on the 16thh of May, 2021, in London, United Kingdom within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did commit an act in furtherance of an act of terrorism by making a broadcast that “In 2 weeks’ time, what will happen will shake the world, people will die, the whole world will stand still, mark my word” and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1 (2) (b) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.
Count Seven:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State on the 31st of May, 2021, in London, United Kingdom within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did an act in furtherance of an act of terrorism by issuing a deadly threat that anyone who flouted your sit-at-home order should “write his/her will,” as a result banks, schools, markets, shopping malls, fuel stations were not opened for businesses and vehicular movements grounded and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1 (2) (b) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.
The accused pleaded not guilty on the seven count charges and the matter was adjourned till 10th November, 2021.