Product Lead, Apps

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🕒 August 11

🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✅ Product Manager

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Amini

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

Artificial Intelligence • Science

Amini is a dynamic, fast-growing deep tech startup committed to building environmental data infrastructure for Africa and the tropical belt. By utilizing Geospatial Data and AI/Machine Learning, Amini aims to address environmental data scarcity in the global south. The company fosters a culture of inclusivity and diversity, supporting its mission to create significant opportunities for over 1 billion lives. Amini's innovative platform combines the largest catalogue of satellite and ground truth data available for the tropical belt, reflecting its vision of transforming Africa and enabling its communities.

📋 Description

• Serve as the voice of the customer from first concept to global launch • Shape product direction, surface new opportunities, and bring features to life for governments and citizens across the Global South • Develop and apply insights to infuse innovative, AI-enabled capabilities into Amini's product-development process • Own strategy, development, and go-to-market for the application portfolio • Own the application layer of the Amini stack and mature products from early-stage deployments to production-grade, scalable deployments across multiple sovereign jurisdictions • Translate government requirements, sovereign compliance constraints, and ambiguous market needs into concrete product roadmaps and shipping outcomes • Identify opportunities through competitor, market trend, user, and government-need research • Own end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for the Amini application suite • Drive products from their current stage to production-grade, scalable deployments across multiple countries • Maintain a prioritised backlog aligned to government/corporate contract requirements and Amini priorities • Define success metrics, goals, and performance dashboards; report progress to leadership weekly • Define product positioning for technical government buyers and end users • Translate government requirements into product capabilities and commercial positioning with Business Development • Deliver cohesive launches across web, documentation, press, and in-country events with marketing and business development • Build a product playbook enabling contract-to-live in under 30 days across countries • Formulate product messaging and create outbound marketing materials for technical and non-technical audiences • Build and lead a high-performing product team across the apps portfolio • Establish decision authority, ways of working, and accountability structures • Lead through influence, storytelling, and healthy debate across engineering, ops, commercial, and government stakeholder teams • Mentor team members, support development, and eliminate single points of failure • Contribute to organisational transformation toward scalable, distributed execution • Partner with Engineering to ship reliable, secure, and compliant features • Work with Customer Ops and Customer Success to ensure products are deployable, supportable, and configurable per jurisdiction • Engage directly with customers during deployment and translate feedback into the roadmap • Ensure products meet residency, compliance, and interoperability requirements • Represent product across Customer Support, Ops, Legal, and Corporate Development • Partner with engineering and design on planning, architecture trade-offs, and future features • Navigate scope, schedule, and quality trade-offs • Lead early research and development alongside engineering before coding begins

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in application product management or product leadership • At least 3 years in a senior / lead role • Track record of taking complex software products from early-stage to production-grade at scale, ideally in infrastructure, govtech, or enterprise SaaS • Proven ability to ship AI-powered features • Experience with LLMs, AI agents, or AI-enabled workflows strongly valued • Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, digital public infrastructure (DPI), or govtech applications • Experience working in or with emerging markets, government clients, or regulated industries • Ability to operate in ambiguity and translate high-level strategic objectives into detailed, executable product plans • Strong cross-functional leadership skills, able to align engineering, ops, commercial, and customer teams without direct authority • Data-driven approach to product decisions • Experience building and using product analytics, cohort analysis, and market reporting • Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders, including government officials and C-suite • Experience presenting or speaking at a national or government level, pitching to ministers, presenting at conferences, or representing a product in the press • Prior work in Global South markets • Experience scaling a product function from scratch, building processes, tools, and team capability in a fast-growth environment • Technical fluency, including reading architecture diagrams, participating in engineering trade-off discussions, and understanding API-first product design

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work in Kenya • Indefinite term employment • Full-time employment