Product Lead, Apps

Responsibilities

Product Ownership and Roadmap

• Identify opportunities by studying competitors, market trends, and real user and government needs, bringing the voice of the customer into every product decision
  
• Own end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for the Amini application suite
  
• Drive each product from current stage to production-grade, scalable deployments across multiple countries
  
• Develop and maintain a prioritised backlog aligned to government / corporate contract requirements and Amini's priorities
  
• Define success metrics, goals and performance dashboards for the apps portfolio; report progress to leadership weekly
  

Go-to-Market & Positioning

• Define clear, compelling positioning that sets Amini's apps apart, for both technical government buyers and end users
  
• Partner with the Business Development team to translate government requirements into product capabilities and commercial positioning
  
• Partner with marketing and business development to deliver cohesive launches across web, documentation, press and in-country events
  
• Build the product playbook that enables contract to live in under 30 days, from one country to multiple
  
• Formulate product messaging and create outbound marketing materials for both technical and non-technical audiences
  

Team Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing product team across the apps portfolio
  
• Establish clear decision authority, ways of working and accountability structures within the product function
  
• Lead through influence, storytelling and healthy debate, across engineering, ops, commercial and government stakeholder teams
  
• Mentor team members and support their development; eliminate single points of failure in the product function
  
• Contribute to Amini's broader org transformation, moving from heroic individual effort to scalable, distributed execution
  

Cross-Functional Execution

• Partner with Engineering to ship reliable, secure and compliant features on a cadence that matches market demand
  
• Work closely with Customer Ops and Customer Success to ensure products are deployable, supportable and configurable per jurisdiction
  
• Engage directly with customers during deployment, building trust and translating feedback into the roadmap
  
• Collaborate to ensure products meet residency, compliance and interoperability requirements
  
• Act as product representative across Customer Support, Ops, Legal and Corporate Development
  

Engineering & Design Partnership

• Partner with engineering and design as a product champion, providing clear direction on planning, architecture trade-offs and future features
  
• Navigate trade-offs between scope, schedule and quality to ship products that governments and citizens love to use
  
• Collaborate with collegues to ensure products meet residency, compliance and interoperability requirements
  
• Lead early research and development alongside engineering to define product strategy before a line of code is written
  

What you will have

Essential

• 7+ years in application product management or product leadership, with at least 3 years in a senior / lead role
  
• Track record of taking complex software products from early-stage to production-grade at scale, ideally in infrastructure, govtech, or enterprise SaaS
  
• Proven ability to ship AI-powered features that meaningfully expand what users can do, experience with LLMs, AI agents, or AI-enabled workflows strongly valued
  
• Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, digital public infrastructure (DPI), or govtech applications (e.g. citizen-facing platforms, government data products)
  
• Experience working in or with emerging markets, government clients or regulated industries
  
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and translate high-level strategic objectives into detailed, executable product plans
  
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, able to align engineering, ops, commercial and customer teams without direct authority
  
• Data-driven approach to product decisions; experience building and using product analytics, cohort analysis and market reporting
  
• Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders, including government officials and C-suite
  

Highly Desirable

• Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, or digital public infrastructure programmes
  
• Exposure to AI-powered products, large language models or Government applications
  
• Experience presenting or speaking at a national or government level, pitching to ministers, presenting at conferences, or representing a product in the press
  
• Prior work in Global South markets
  
• Experience scaling a product function from scratch, building processes, tools and team capability in a fast-growth environment
  
• Technical fluency: comfortable reading architecture diagrams, participating in engineering trade-off discussions and understanding API-first product design