Product Manager at Apollo Agriculture

About the Role

Apollo Agriculture is seeking a Product Manager to help us change how African farmers access farm inputs, credit, and customized advice. We are looking for someone to help design and drive our product strategy as we scale. The ideal candidate rapidly assimilates new information, forms and expresses sound strategic judgements, motivates everyone around them, and is equally comfortable defending their opinion as admitting when they are wrong.

Management

This position reports to Apollo’s Lead Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Help design and execute our product strategy and technology roadmap in close coordination with Apollo’s lead PM and key stakeholders across Apollo
• Rally people across the organization to deliver high-quality products, on time, for our customers
• Work closely with our operations teams and learn from our customers in the field to develop technology that dramatically increases our operational efficiency and positions the business for radical scale
• Transform ideas into clear, functional product features and work with our engineers to ensure projects are managed efficiently and features are built to spec.
• Your core responsibilities will evolve and shift as Apollo grows. You will thrive in this role if you embrace rather than struggle with frequent change.

You:

• Rapidly assimilate new information and turn it into clear strategic judgements with sound logical reasoning 
• Understand the implications of today’s design decisions for future scale and intuitively “see the forest for the trees”
• Are a considerate listener who takes the time to deeply understand customers, teammates, and partners
• Have demonstrated success in a fast-paced environment (but not necessarily as a PM); your exact title may vary depending on your experience level with product management
• Are willing to make sacrifices to change the world for the better at massive scale
• Are technically fluent and excited about having a technical conversation with an engineer
• BONUS Have built working software and/or are comfortable using SQL
• BONUS Are experienced in one of these areas: agribusiness, consumer app development, Mobile UI/UX

We:

• Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers 
• Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise 
• Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve
• Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree
• Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration, and growth
• Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment
• Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package including equity