🚀Entering Tech #001: Five no-code tech jobs

Some trivia before we begin. Answers are at the bottom of this newsletter. 

1. Product management: Love being at the centre of attention and getting disappointed every day? Then product management is for you. Product managers plan and guide the development and delivery of products from idea inception to launch by taking into account the users and business/product goals. Take TikTok for example, there are product managers that develop the product, find out what users like and want, and make sure these wants are met. 

They work with designers, engineers, researchers, and everyone else to get this done. 

• Skills needed: Communication, leadership and decision making, researching and strategy, management skills (time, task, and budget).
• Salary range: ₦360,000 – ₦1,000,000 per month || GH₵18,000 – GH₵29,000 per month || KES80,000 – KES500,000 per month.

2. Social media management: If you love creating content on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, then this might be the one for you.

Social media managers are responsible for content planning, creating and monitoring across platforms to increase brand awareness and engagement. They’re the voice of the organisation. All those fun Twitter threads with companies roasting each other? They’re made by social media managers. 

• Skills needed: Content creation, copywriting, customer service, social listening skills, communication.
• Salary range: ₦85,000 – ₦420,000 per month || GH₵700 – GH₵3,000 per month || KES25,000 – KES351,000 per month.

3. Digital marketing: You’ll succeed in this role if you love shoving your opinions down people’s throats. Digital marketers promote products or services, using online-based digital technologies like phones, laptops and other digital media and platforms. Simply put, they promote stuff on platforms like Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Zikoko. 

Types of digital marketing include social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimisation (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), and others.

• Skills needed: Research, data analysis, marketing , copywriting, communication.
• Salary range:₦38,000 – ₦238,000 per month || GH₵2,500 per month || KES28,000 – KES103,000 per month.

4. Writing: Writing is painful involves sharing information in a professional setting. Writers focus a lot on documentation of processes, including instruction manuals, white papers, handbooks, product descriptions, reports, briefs, newsletters, tech articles, news and publications, etc.

There are lots of writing roles in tech. There’s SEO writing, which is the act of writing for the purpose of improving your rank on a search engine; and technical writing which involves straightforward, easy-to-understand explanations of and instructions for a particular subject.

Others include proposal and grant writing, product review writing, and UX writing.

• Skills needed: Communication skills, analytical skills, research skills, SEO, time management skills, content creation.
• Salary range: ₦60,000 – ₦1,000,000 per month || GH₵1,800 – GH₵2,000 per month || KES30,000 – KES130,000 per month.

5. UX Design: UX means user experience and UX designers are responsible for everything you like and don’t like about an app. 👀

User experience designers make the usability of your product or service easy. They improve its efficiency and usefulness, making it more enjoyable for users. To make the user experience seamless, they combine market research, strategy, planning, and design. They work closely with a UI designer, managers, developers, engineers and customers. 

UX design was ranked as one of the top 10 in-demand skills of 2020 by LinkedIn, so its importance and demand are not in question.

• Skills needed: User research, design thinking, prototyping, usability testing, typography, time management.
• Salary range: Nigeria: ₦200,000 – ₦500,000 per month || KES25,000 – KES120,000 per month.