Product Lead, Apps at Amini

Product Lead, Apps at Amini | Iko Kazi

As Product Lead, Apps you will be the voice of the customer, from first concept to global launch. You will shape product direction, surface new opportunities, and help bring features to life that governments and citizens across the Global South use every day. You will develop and apply insights to infuse innovative, AI-enabled capabilities into Amini's product-development process.

At Amini, we combine product management and product marketing responsibilities into a single, cross-functional Product Apps Lead role. You will own strategy, development, and go-to-market, collaborating with design, engineering, finance, legal, marketing, BD and customer success. This breadth gives you real influence at every stage of the product lifecycle.

You will own the application layer of the Amini stack, taking our products from early-stage deployments to production-grade, scalable maturity across multiple sovereign jurisdictions. This is both a hands-on product leadership role and a strategic seat at the table as Amini scales its operating model.

You will work at the intersection of government requirements, sovereign compliance constraints and fast-moving technical delivery, translating ambiguous market needs into concrete product roadmaps and shipping outcomes that directly enable Amini's expansion into new markets.

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

Product Lead, Apps at Amini

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