Our unique mFarming digital platform addresses the significant and increasing problem of low food production in Africa. Our customers are multi-national corporations. Well-known non-profit organisations are our strategic partners. The emerging market of digital solutions for agriculture in Africa is estimated to be worth billions of €. As a digital farming pioneer in Africa, we are in the pole position to capture it.

Role

Your role is to ensure the success of our mFarming digital platform (web, mobile apps, SMS/USSD) for agriculture stakeholders in Africa, by becoming fully acquainted with the market, our user groups, competition, and our product development. The market, Africa, may not be familiar to you but you find what you need from our team of pioneers, from public sources, and from customers.

You take responsibility that our engineering team is aligned with strategic customer needs. You can explain, and maybe even design yourself, the interaction between different agriculture stakeholders on our mFarming platform. You are customer focused and see complexity that comes from the market as an opportunity to penetrate it, simplify it, and win over competition. You enjoy business strategy for the product performance.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Acquiring continuously user and market information as guidance to your work

• Steering product design and end-to-end testing

• Analysing customer feedback (data and verbal) for product improvements

• Leading the product team with customer focus

• Prioritising work tasks according to strategic needs

• Ensure the platform performance translates into business performance (SaaS subscriptions)

Your Background

You have a university degree, and several years of work experience in leading product development teams. Further you have:

• Excellent understanding of e-commerce platforms, subscriptions, SaaS model

• Hands-on experience with software developers; familiar with developer tools

• Very good language skills in English; French is a big plus

• Strong analytical skills and the capability to simplify solutions

You find Ben Horowitz' 15 year old article "Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager" still intriguing and motivating (https://a16z.com/2012/06/15/good-product-managerbad-product-manager).

Working in Sibesonke

We are a diverse, international team, cooperating remotely and across functions.

• family-work balance