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Product Manager

  • Role: Product Manager
  • Organization: M-Shule
  • Location: Nairobi, Kenya

M-Shule is the first adaptive, mobile learning platform in Africa to connect primary school students with personalized education even through SMS. Meaning “mobile school” in Swahili, M-Shule’s platform uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized learning support in Math and English over SMS and chatbots, building students’ concept mastery, exam performance, and confidence. Then M-Shule shares data and insights with their parents, schools, and organizations to power better instruction and collaboration. By making a 21st Century learning platform possible with the simplest feature phone, M-Shule unlocks new opportunities for millions of students across sub-Saharan Africa and the world. Find out more on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

About You

You will be a major part of a small and agile development team driving the first-ever artificial intelligence-based learning tool in primary schools in East Africa. We are looking for someone who is excited by the opportunity to draw from innovations in the international EdTech space, and figure out how to apply them in a developing market. How do you deliver a transformational adaptive, mobile learning product when we can’t rely on regular electricity, digital literacy, or quality education standards? That’s what you get to find out!

We have already built and are implementing our product in primary schools across Kenya. We now invite you to tackle projects like developing new product and feature roadmaps, using quantitative and qualitative data to understand user experience, and helping the team test and iterate new ideas for scale.

Responsibilities

  • Work with and across M-Shule teams to understand various stakeholder needs and develop strategies for product success.
  • Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform product direction and decisions.
  • Design and implement processes around design, development, and quality assurance throughout product lifecycle
  • Manage projects across product teams to fulfill students’ learning goals from troubleshooting bugs to prioritizing enhancements.
  • Support other teams and stakeholders in training, sales, business development, and growth.

Sound exciting? Here’s who we are looking for.

Skills & Qualifications

A desire to impact education, independent project management skills, and exceptional problem-solving abilities are all essential prerequisites on the M-Shule team. For this role, we’re also looking for someone with the following:

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) – with experience in product management.
  • Outstanding product management skills and comfort juggling issues of all shapes and sizes at once.
  • Expertise with design and product development processes.
  • Flexibility and willingness to jump in and lead projects in a hands-on, fast-paced startup environment.
  • Extremely user-centric.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Enough technical background to have meaningful conversations with engineers and development team members.
  • Enthusiasm and commitment to learning and collaboration across cross-functional, cross-cultural teams.

Preferred

  • Knowledgeable (or willing to learn quickly) about lean software development, agile software development, and lean startup methodology.
  • Experience working in instructional or education environments.
  • Software development experience.

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