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We already work with governments across the southern hemisphere, and our work has been recognised by TIME100 AI, MIT Solve, and the World Economic Forum. We help our partners and customers put AI to work in ways that drive real growth, and make sure that opportunity is shared more equally across the Global South.\nOur core values, Collaboration, Trust, Integrity, Humility, and Passion, are at the heart of everything we do. In practice, that means defaulting to sharing credit and information openly, being honest about what we don't yet know, and choosing to admit a mistake early rather than protect an ego.\nOur team is small, highly skilled, and non-hierarchical. We recognise the transformational nature of our work, but we stay humble and ego-free about it. We believe in fully using our skills and experience, sharing ideas openly, and making a collective impact, one we intend to grow from the governments and communities we already work with today into a much broader influence on the AI industry and lives across the Global South. This means building the organisational muscle to deploy across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. The Product Apps Lead is a pivotal hire in that transformation.\nProduct Lead, Apps\nAs 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.\nAt 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.\nYou 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.\nYou 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.\nResponsibilities\nProduct Ownership and Roadmap\nIdentify opportunities by studying competitors, market trends, and real user and government needs, bringing the voice of the customer into every product decision\nOwn end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for the Amini application suite\nDrive each product from current stage to production-grade, scalable deployments across multiple countries\nDevelop and maintain a prioritised backlog aligned to government / corporate contract requirements and Amini's priorities\nDefine success metrics, goals and performance dashboards for the apps portfolio; report progress to leadership weekly\nGo-to-Market & Positioning\nDefine clear, compelling positioning that sets Amini's apps apart, for both technical government buyers and end users\nPartner with the Business Development team to translate government requirements into product capabilities and commercial positioning\nPartner with marketing and business development to deliver cohesive launches across web, documentation, press and in-country events\nBuild the product playbook that enables contract to live in under 30 days, from one country to multiple\nFormulate product messaging and create outbound marketing materials for both technical and non-technical audiences\nTeam Leadership\nBuild and lead a high-performing product team across the apps portfolio\nEstablish clear decision authority, ways of working and accountability structures within the product function\nLead through influence, storytelling and healthy debate, across engineering, ops, commercial and government stakeholder teams\nMentor team members and support their development; eliminate single points of failure in the product function\nContribute to Amini's broader org transformation, moving from heroic individual effort to scalable, distributed execution\nCross-Functional Execution\nPartner with Engineering to ship reliable, secure and compliant features on a cadence that matches market demand\nWork closely with Customer Ops and Customer Success to ensure products are deployable, supportable and configurable per jurisdiction\nEngage directly with customers during deployment, building trust and translating feedback into the roadmap\nCollaborate to ensure products meet residency, compliance and interoperability requirements\nAct as product representative across Customer Support, Ops, Legal and Corporate Development\nEngineering & Design Partnership\nPartner with engineering and design as a product champion, providing clear direction on planning, architecture trade-offs and future features\nNavigate trade-offs between scope, schedule and quality to ship products that governments and citizens love to use\nCollaborate with collegues to ensure products meet residency, compliance and interoperability requirements\nLead early research and development alongside engineering to define product strategy before a line of code is written\nWhat you will have\nEssential\n7+ years in application product management or product leadership, with at least 3 years in a senior / lead role\nTrack record of taking complex software products from early-stage to production-grade at scale, ideally in infrastructure, govtech, or enterprise SaaS\nProven ability to ship AI-powered features that meaningfully expand what users can do, experience with LLMs, AI agents, or AI-enabled workflows strongly valued\nExperience with sovereign cloud, data residency, digital public infrastructure (DPI), or govtech applications (e.g. citizen-facing platforms, government data products)\nExperience working in or with emerging markets, government clients or regulated industries\nAbility to operate in ambiguity and translate high-level strategic objectives into detailed, executable product plans\nStrong cross-functional leadership skills, able to align engineering, ops, commercial and customer teams without direct authority\nData-driven approach to product decisions; 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