Summary: Product Lead, Apps role at Amini in Nairobi, owning product strategy and roadmap for the application suite. Requires 7+ years in application product management with 3+ years in a senior/lead role, and experience taking complex software products from early-stage to production-grade scale. Full-time, on-site role.
As
Product Lead, Apps you will be the voice of the customer, from first concept to
global launch. You will shape product direction, surface new opportunities, and
help bring features to life that governments and citizens across the Global
South use every day. You will develop and apply insights to infuse innovative,
AI-enabled capabilities into Amini’s product-development process.
At Amini, we combine product management and product marketing responsibilities into a single, cross-functional Product Apps Lead role. You will own strategy, development, and go-to-market, collaborating with design, engineering, finance, legal, marketing, BD and customer success. This breadth gives you real influence at every stage of the product lifecycle.
You
will own the application layer of the Amini stack, taking our products from
early-stage deployments to production-grade, scalable maturity across multiple
sovereign jurisdictions. This is both a hands-on product leadership role and a
strategic seat at the table as Amini scales its operating model.
You
will work at the intersection of government requirements, sovereign compliance
constraints and fast-moving technical delivery, translating ambiguous market
needs into concrete product roadmaps and shipping outcomes that directly enable
Amini’s expansion into new markets.
Responsibilities
Product
Ownership and Roadmap
- Identify opportunities by studying competitors, market trends, and
real user and government needs, bringing the voice of the customer into
every product decision
- Own end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for the Amini
application suite
- Drive each product from current stage to production-grade, scalable
deployments across multiple countries
- Develop and maintain a prioritised backlog aligned to government /
corporate contract requirements and Amini’s priorities
- Define success metrics, goals and performance dashboards for the
apps portfolio; report progress to leadership weekly
Go-to-Market
& Positioning
- Define clear, compelling positioning that sets Amini’s apps apart,
for both technical government buyers and end users
- Partner with the Business Development team to translate government
requirements into product capabilities and commercial positioning
- Partner with marketing and business development to deliver cohesive
launches across web, documentation, press and in-country events
- Build the product playbook that enables contract to live in under 30
days, from one country to multiple
- Formulate product messaging and create outbound marketing materials
for both technical and non-technical audiences
Team
Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing product team across the apps
portfolio
- Establish clear decision authority, ways of working and
accountability structures within the product function
- Lead through influence, storytelling and healthy debate, across
engineering, ops, commercial and government stakeholder teams
- Mentor team members and support their development; eliminate single
points of failure in the product function
- Contribute to Amini’s broader org transformation, moving from heroic
individual effort to scalable, distributed execution
Cross-Functional
Execution
- Partner with Engineering to ship reliable, secure and compliant
features on a cadence that matches market demand
- Work closely with Customer Ops and Customer Success to ensure
products are deployable, supportable and configurable per jurisdiction
- Engage directly with customers during deployment, building trust and
translating feedback into the roadmap
- Collaborate to ensure products meet residency, compliance and
interoperability requirements
- Act as product representative across Customer Support, Ops, Legal
and Corporate Development
Engineering
& Design Partnership
- Partner with engineering and design as a product champion, providing
clear direction on planning, architecture trade-offs and future features
- Navigate trade-offs between scope, schedule and quality to ship
products that governments and citizens love to use
- Collaborate with collegues to ensure products meet residency,
compliance and interoperability requirements
- Lead early research and development alongside engineering to define
product strategy before a line of code is written
What you will have
Essential
- 7+ years in application product management or product leadership,
with 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 that meaningfully expand
what users can do, experience with LLMs, AI agents, or AI-enabled
workflows strongly valued
- Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, digital public
infrastructure (DPI), or govtech applications (e.g. citizen-facing
platforms, government data products)
- 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
Highly
Desirable
- Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, or digital public
infrastructure programmes
- Exposure to AI-powered products, large language models or Government
applications
- 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: comfortable reading architecture diagrams,
participating in engineering trade-off discussions and understanding
API-first product design
How to Apply
