Product Lead
Nairobi 🇰🇪
Overview
📍 Nairobi, with occasional national and international travels for meetings, team activities, and conferences;
💺 Ability to work remotely - but we offer co-working space options;
💻 Strong back-end and data modelling experience with knowledge of product development and management who will help Briter scale its business intelligence and technology offering;
We are a dynamic and innovative technology company specialising in developing a cutting-edge market intelligence platform focused on business and investment data in emerging markets. Our platform empowers businesses and investors with actionable insights and data-driven strategies to make informed decisions in these rapidly evolving economies. We are seeking a skilled Product Lead to join our team in Nairobi and contribute to the ongoing enhancement and development of our platform.
As a Product Lead at our company, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our market intelligence platform. Your expertise in various technologies will be strategically assigned to different aspects of the platform's architecture, ensuring a high-performance, user-friendly, and scalable application that meets the needs of our clients in emerging markets.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership: Guide the product team through the development and execution phases of AgBase, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and user requirements. Formulate and iterate on the product strategy to optimise for scalability, efficiency, and impact.
Technical Expertise: Direct technical efforts in evolving the platform, encompassing features from bulk uploads and advanced scraping capabilities (ranging from 50 to 250 sources) to innovative solutions like dynamic datapoint creation and a conversational query system for business intelligence.
Milestone Delivery: Oversee the successful delivery of key milestones, including but not limited to:
Development and refinement of scraper versions and UI enhancements for a better user experience.
Implementation of an authorization and authentication system with comprehensive fine-grained policies, email automation for content distribution, and SEO-driven development and optimisations.
Strategic planning for upcoming quarters, ensuring the platform's growth and relevance.
Integration of invoicing functionalities, subscription management and data export features to streamline operations for users.
Continuous development of the AgBase platform, including version upgrades, feature expansions, and user interface improvements according to future user-interface research studies and A/B testing.
Enhancement of user engagement through new UI designs, user analytics, and automated A/B testing systems.
User-Centric Development: Prioritise user experience by addressing UI bugs, refining filters and dashboards, and introducing new functionalities to meet diverse user needs, including profiles and engagement metrics.
Required Skills and Qualifications
10+ years of proven experience in product management, with a focus on building technological products or business intelligence platforms.
10+ years of proven experience in overseeing end-to-end software development processes as well as strong coding skills, both backend and frontend.
10+ years of proven experience in leading product development from ideation through launch and iteration.
10+ years of proven experience in SEO strategies and optimisation.
Deep understanding of data scraping, analysis, and visualisation technologies.
Proficiency in agile methodologies and tools for project management.
Outstanding communication skills, able to articulate technical and business insights to diverse audiences..
Strong leadership, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
Proficiency in agile project management methodologies.
Excellent problem-solving, organisational, and leadership skills.
Excellent communication abilities, with the skill to convey complex technical and business concepts to a diverse audience.
Desirable Skills
Knowledge of payment and invoicing systems integration (e.g., Xero, Stripe).
Familiarity with data privacy and security protocols.
How to Apply
Submit your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are the ideal candidate for this role to jobs@briterbridges.com. Please include examples of previous work or projects that demonstrate your fit for this position.
This job description can be tailored further based on the specific requirements and culture of your organisation.
Scope Year 1
Backend and frontend scope of work
Develop, design and document new features of AgBase Platform v1.0 together with stakeholders.
Bulk upload data feature (organisations, deals, people, etc.)
50+ automated data gathering software for the following markets: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Agriculture and food.
Grow the number of automated data gathering software to more than 250+ by the end of the year.
User Interface for internal data analysts to manage the automated data gathering system as well as quickly help with data cleaning.
Fine-grained authorization and authentication attribute-based system using policies.
Conversational Query System BI with user interface.
Configurable email automation communication system based on customer preferences as well as based on predefined rules.
Full SEO optimizations for Briter Bridges website
Subscription management system with automatic invoice generation integrated with third-party tools.
Ability to select, filter and post process export in multiple formats from a simple user interface for the internal data analyst team.
Dynamic data points creation from user interface with attributes connected to the authorization system.
Extend existing database design to fit new types of entities, such as projects, corporates, LPs, tech stack etc.
Develop & implement both BB website and AgBase website, automatically connected to the database through an authorization system to prevent data exfiltration.
Increase data tracking of usage of the platform as well as extract common user flows to define new data-driven features for the platform.
Design, define and implement new user interface based on predefined user personas.
Design, define and implement a crowdsourcing system based on the user personas.
Planning for Q3/Q4
New features
New UI slides
User analytics, usage, etc
End to end process for payment and invoicing (Xero, Stripe)
UI in Data Room for payment and invoicing
New UI for LPs, etc
User profile
Email automation
AgBase features
Charts in overview
Create account
Usage tracking metrics
Confirmation email from Agbase
Market comparison
Bug fixing sessions
Change filters in Deals
Crowdsourcing system
Crowdsourcing UI
Impact dashboard v1
Impact dashboard v2
Founder persona UI
Government persona UI
Investor persona UI
Corporate persona UI
Emerging markets UI
Perks
🏄🏻 Flexibility in hours, and the opportunity for hybrid work;
💻 A company Macbook;
📍 Co-working in the heart of Nairobi;
🦸🏻 A cute avatar and personalised mug :)
🥂 A friendly and fun international team;
🛫 Opportunities to travel and attend events globally;
📚 Support on courses and training certificates to increase skills;
🤓 Opportunity and support to build personal brand and network;
🎂 Annual company birthday party and offsite;
Deadline for Applications
May 1st, 2024. Ongoing screening.
Send your portfolio, past projects, a CV, and a brief intro via the link button with the subject Product Lead. Be creative, we are not a boring law firm.
About Briter
Briter is on a mission to build the go-to point of reference for emerging markets’ data and our team believes in the ability of better information to drive a proactive, business and opportunity-centred narrative. More and clearer data have the potential to boost business, creative, and investment activity, and Briter has been relentlessly working alongside several public and private stakeholders to create an accessible portal to knowledge about underserved markets.
Briter saw the light as a digital publication in late 2018 and quickly converted into a data-driven research firm focused on analysing business environments across underserved markets - i.e. those lacking the adequate supply of information able to showcase the number of opportunities they offer. Briter has released the largest collection of visualisations focused on technology ecosystems across Africa, South Asia and MENA and its research has grown to become a point of reference for major corporates, international organisations, governmental institutions, and investors.
Its work has now been featured in major media outlets such as CNN, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Forbes, African Business, Quartz, The Africa Report, and several major regional magazines. Briter’s ultimate goal consists of building a constructive narrative about business, creative, and investment opportunities across underserved economies by means of making more data available and digestible.