Openings at Peach Cars KE

JOB DESCRIPTION

Tech / product strategy (incl. infrastructure/architecture, systems, security)

• Act as the systems manager from 50,000 ft view as well as on the ground; innovating for a robust, secure, and scalable tech stack sitting at the heart of Peach
• Work with Peach leadership, tech / product team, and other relevant stakeholders to build and maintain a product architecture that is scalable, secure, and robust
• Work with Peach leadership and other, external stakeholders and inspiration to come up with innovative and potentially impactful ideas for internal and external-facing products, whether iterations on existing products or blue sky-style opportunities / ideas - both software only and joint, software/hardware innovations
• Provide technical support for policy or regulatory-related matters of compliance and risk-reduction
• Create technology standards and practices within the organization and ensure they are adhered to
• Have an understanding of and be able to integrate hardware and software systems for harmonious implementation and use

Project / product management

• Manage the product cycle at Peach Cars, including all product / project design, development, deployment, review and iteration (as needed) - with both internal and external stakeholders

Codebase management / strategic implementation

• Establish new / maintain existing processes and standards to ensure high-quality software development. Implement best practices for maintaining code quality and test coverage.
• As needed, by workload or strategic importance, write code 

People management

• Oversee day to day duties of all team members including tooling, personnel career growth, budgeting and collaboration with other teams, through weekly reviews
• Setting KPIs to guide business and people management, and scoping the roles and responsibilities for new hires
• Ensure team members have growth and development within the team 

Business strategy and executive leadership

• As a member of the executive team at Peach Cars, you will be responsible for engaging in other, technology and non-technology related matters such as regular strategy and planning sessions, OKR design and implementation, communication with specific teams, the whole Peach team, investors, advisors, and other external audiences 
• Contribute to the future of Peach Cars apart from tech / product development ~ help make and remake strategy and operations across the business units, problem-solving for challenges and acting thoughtfully but nimbly to take advantage of opportunities  

JOB EXPERIENCE

Requirements 

• Have excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Have experience in web and mobile development
• Comprehend both front-end and back-end development
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in product development and team management
• Be emotionally intelligent, humble and excited to work within a team with a diverse set of

Experiences and skills

• Be highly proactive and have ability to find solutions  
• Knowledgeable in the following technologies: Python / REST API’s / VueJS.

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Role Description

Daily responsibilities are as follows:

• Growth Strategy and Implementation 
  • As the Head of Car Care at Peach Cars, you will be responsible for building and implementing the team’s commercial plan and rolling out growth strategies in current and new markets, by amplifying the things that we can do differently/better in the market. 
  • You will be responsible for engaging internal and external partners in research for the best practices and regulatory policies in the automotive industry that should be implemented.  
  • Owning the business development process as well as building out a funnel of businesses in the Car Care Team e.g fleet management contracts with SMEs,  
  • Ensuring the team has the resources needed to execute on both daily efforts as well as to achieve growth ambitions. For example gathering the right resources to build a semi-permanent garage that would house a hydraulic lift, as well as a camera array that would enable the team to work toward an automated inspection center
  • Contribute to the future of Peach Cars by collaborating on technical innovations and inventions, problem solving for challenges and taking advantage of opportunities.    
• Project Management 
  • Manage current and new projects: from research, project design, implementation and iterations (as needed). 
  • Create proper systems to streamline Car Care team processes. Processes such as car diagnosis, quality checks, customer communication, mechanical works, pricing and souring of spare parts.
• Business Management 
  • Ensure there are seamless operations in inventory management  - this will include forecasting on what spare parts are needed, identifying the right suppliers, sourcing for the products and managing the inventory internally. 
  • Mapping out the team’s expected performance by setting team OKRs to guide business and people management.
• Team Management and leadership
  • Oversee overall duties of all team members including tooling, personnel career growth, budgeting and collaboration with other teams, with assistance from the team Supervisor.
  • Setting KPIs to guide business and people management, and scoping the roles and responsibilities for new hires
  • As a Head of Car Care you will be expected to step up and contribute to other areas of the business apart from your own with senior leadership and other stakeholders. 

JOB EXPERIENCE

Requirements

Candidate should: 

• Have excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Have a minimum of 7 years of experience with unique experience in engineering, management and sales.
• Be highly proactive and have ability to find solutions  
• Have technical knowledge in the automotive industry
• Have great leadership and problem solving skills