Product Manager
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.
Note: title may vary depending on candidate’s
experience level with product management.
Responsibilities
- Help design and execute our
product strategy and technology roadmap in close coordination with
Apollo’s Head of Product 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
- Examples of
areas you might lead: designing a marketplace to help farmers
sell their produce in an easy and transparent way; building a fantastic
user experience for our customers across communication platforms including
voice, sms and smartphone; designing products that empower our customers
to invest on their farms and maximize their profits
Qualifications
- 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 (not necessarily as a PM);
- Excited
to overcome challenges and 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: farming, 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
How to Apply
To apply, please submit your resume and a 500
word response to the following prompt: Describe a time in your work experience
where data proved that your prior beliefs/expectations were incorrect. What
happened?
Note: applications without a short answer will
not be considered.
