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BURN designs, manufactures, and distributes aspirational fuel-efficient cooking products that save lives and forests in the developing world.BURN has revolutionized the global cookstove sector by proving the business case for selling a high quality, locally manufactured and unsubsidized cookstoves.Since 2013, BURN has sold 200,000+ high quality, locally manu...
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About the Role:
The Senior Product Manager – Electric is the strategic leader responsible for driving BURN’s electric product market entry, customer adoption, and product success. This role combines market-facing strategy, customer insights, and operational oversight to ensure that BURN’s electric induction cookers (IDCs) achieve product-market fit and meaningful impact. Acting as the voice of the customer, the Senior Product Manager ensures that customer and market insights directly shape the product roadmap in collaboration with the Product Owner and development teams.
The role requires a hands-on approach to piloting, validating market assumptions, and refining the economic value proposition for customers in new and existing markets.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Market Entry Strategy
- Lead and execute the new market entry strategy for electric products, overseeing pilot phases and coordinating with Country Leads and local stakeholders.
- Validate market readiness by analyzing infrastructure, fuel spending patterns, and repayment behaviors in residential and commercial segments.
- Work with local teams and stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulations, certifications, and standards in each market.
- Develop customer personas and refine them across each market, including insights into ability and willingness to pay.
- Customer Insights and Market Research
- Act as the voice of the customer, driving market research initiatives to identify customer needs, pain points, and behaviors.
- Develop and own Market Requirements Documents (MRD) to ensure alignment with market demands.
- Collaborate with the Strategy and Market Research teams to refine the economic value proposition (EVP) for different customer segments.
Product / Solution Offering
- Partner with the Product Owner to align the product roadmap with customer and market insights.
- Develop and implement strategies to ensure pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) readiness and successful loan repayment in new markets.
- Lead product package development, aligning features, pricing, and payment plans with market requirements.
Pilot Leadership
- Oversee pilot programs for new markets, ensuring key metrics are met.
- Collaborate with local teams to adapt product offerings for cultural and language preferences.
- Analyze market and pilot data to continuously refine strategies for product, operations, and marketing.
- Maintain documentation on market entry processes, insights, and performance metrics to guide future expansions.
Team and Stakeholder Engagement
- Provide direction to Pilot Leads and market-specific team members to ensure smooth market operations.
- Collaborate with Commercial, Marketing, and Customer Support teams to address any issues related to product, payment, or customer engagement.
- Act as the key interface between internal teams and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment and seamless execution.
Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field; MBA is a plus.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in product management, with a focus on market-facing roles.
- Proven ability to lead market entry strategies and manage pilots in emerging markets.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven decision-making approach.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to engage internal teams, partners, and customers.
Desirable
- Experience working in renewable energy, IoT-enabled products, or PAYGo solutions.
- Familiarity with market entry strategies and product pilots in emerging markets.
- Proficiency in project management and reporting tools (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet, Miro).
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About the Role:
The Senior Product Owner – Electric is a critical role in driving the development and delivery of BURN’s electric products. As the primary owner of Product Requirements, this role ensures that BURN’s products meet technical, market, and customer needs. The Senior Product Owner works closely with the Product Managers, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to translate market requirements into actionable technical specifications and deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.
This role requires a proactive, detail-oriented approach to backlog and schedule management, sprint prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring seamless alignment between product development and market goals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Product Development Leadership
- Own and manage the Product Requirements Document (PRD), ensuring alignment with the Market Requirements Document (MRD) owned by Product Managers.
- Translate customer and market insights into actionable product features and technical specifications.
- Lead sprint planning and backlog prioritization, working closely with engineering teams to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery.
- Oversee the product development lifecycle, including stage gate reviews (Scoping & Feasibility, Preliminary Design, Detailed Design, EVT, DVT, PVT), ensuring all deliverables are met.
Backlog and Sprint Management
- Define, prioritize, and manage the product backlog to align with business objectives and customer needs.
- Ensure engineering teams have clear and detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation.
- Monitor sprint progress and address blockers to keep development on track.
Risk Management and Compliance
- Identify and mitigate risks related to product development timelines, costs, and technical feasibility.
- Ensure all products meet compliance, regulatory, and quality standards in target markets.
- Regularly review and update project plans to accommodate changes and mitigate delays.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Product Managers to align on the product roadmap and ensure the PRD reflects market needs.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and quality assurance teams to deliver features that meet technical and customer requirements.
- Facilitate regular communication with internal and external stakeholders, providing updates on progress, risks, and key decisions.
Documentation and Communication
- Maintain detailed and up-to-date documentation of product features, technical specifications, and development progress.
- Prepare and present product updates to leadership, highlighting key milestones, challenges, and opportunities.
- Contribute to the creation of training materials and support resources for product rollouts.
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in product ownership or related roles, with a focus on hardware-software integration.
- Proven experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies, including backlog management and sprint planning.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
Desirable:
- Experience working in IoT-enabled products, PAYGo solutions, or renewable energy sectors.
- Familiarity with product development and product management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, Miro, etc.
- Experience with hardware development cycles and the stage gate development process.
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About the Role:
The Senior Project Manager – Electric will play a critical role in ensuring the seamless execution of BURN’s new market entry strategies and pilot programs for electric products. This role focuses on operational excellence, logistics, and coordination, serving as the key partner to the Senior Product Manager.
The Senior Project Manager ensures all functions—ranging from shipping and warehousing to team onboarding and on-the-ground training—are executed efficiently to support successful market launches and product pilots.
Duties and Responsibilities:
New Market Entry Execution
- Coordinate and manage the operational setup for new market entries, including:
- Technology integrations with key partners in the market.
- Warehousing and office setup.
- Product shipping and delivery logistics.
Stock management processes.
- Lead the resource allocation and recruitment schedule of local teams in new markets.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, budgets, timelines, and risk mitigation strategies for all market entry activities.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations and operational standards for logistics, staffing, and technology integration.
Pilot Program Coordination
- Support the Senior Product Manager in executing pilot programs for product validation, particularly in early-stage market entries.
- Manage logistical elements of pilots, including product delivery, tracking, and reporting.
- Monitor pilot timelines and resources to ensure programs meet key performance metrics.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Act as the primary liaison between internal teams (Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial) and external stakeholders (logistics providers, regulators, technology partners) to ensure seamless execution.
- Provide operational updates to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Collaborate with the Product Owner to align pilot program needs with product development timelines.
Operational Excellence
- Manage and track budgets for market entry and pilot programs, ensuring cost-effective execution.
- Oversee the setup and maintenance of operational infrastructure in new markets.
- Develop and document best practices for market entry and pilot program processes to support scaling efforts.
Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in project management, preferably in logistics, operations, or emerging markets.
- Certification in PMI or PMP.
- Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills, with the ability to track and coordinate multiple workstreams
Desirable
- Experience working in renewable energy, IoT-enabled products, or PAYGo solutions.
- Familiarity with market entry strategies and product pilots in emerging markets.
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet).
- Understanding of local regulations and operational challenges in East and West Africa.
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