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.

Management: This role reports to Apollo’s Head of Product

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.
• Your core responsibilities will evolve and shift as Apollo grows. You will thrive in this role if you embrace rather than struggle with frequent change.

Requirements: 

• 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”
• 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); your exact title may vary depending on your experience level with product management
• 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
• Have built working software and/or are comfortable using SQL
• BONUS Are experienced in one of these areas: machine learning, credit, agriculture, UX design