Junior Product Manager at Educate!

Position Overview

NawiriPro, a Kenyan-led social enterprise launched in 2019 by Educate! and recently recognized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for progress towards decent work and economic growth, is seeking a Junior Product Manager to join our product team and elevate our product strategy, processes and solutions. In this role the successful candidate will collaborate with the Head of Product to articulate a winning strategy, and with the tech, product and other functional teams deliver on a product-market fit by 2022. NawiriPro is forging new and innovative pathways to sustainably impact Out of School Youth (OoSY) livelihoods at scale. We empower and train youth on running successful informal sector businesses, starting with the motorbike courier industry, by teaching them how to increase their income and improve their livelihood. NawiriPro wants to solve the unemployment rate for millions of Out of School Youth in Africa by teaching them successful and dynamic informal sector business models.

NawiriPro is looking for someone who is customer-obsessed, action-biased, delivers results, ruthless prioritizer, highly-motivated individual, proactive and willing to improve on processes. He/She must have first-hand experience building first-class user experience for the mass market user in Africa.

The Junior Product Manager will be reporting to the Head of Product of NawiriPro. This role is crucial to the organization hitting its milestone to get product-market fit. As a result, he\she will be the connection between our customers, partners and our product. Providing a high-quality customer experience is an essential component of our product strategy. He/she will engage with our customers by providing them with real value through exceptional end-to-end customer experience and great content.

You could be the perfect fit for this role if you:

• A good culture fit and and a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product
• Are hungry to learn about and improve on customer experience for an education product
• Are a ruthless prioritizer while balancing the needs of customers and stakeholders
• If you want to take full responsibility for the product and measure your performance in terms of the success of the product.
• Thrive in a scrappy environment and are comfortable with ambiguity and frequent changes to direction as the company works towards product-market fit and learns to operate at scale.