Product Manager

Product strategy and roadmap

• Own the product roadmap from Season 1 MVP to Season 2 scaled platform — prioritising what gets built in what order based on operational evidence, not assumptions
• Define the build sequence for core modules
• Make explicit trade-off decisions: what stays manual vs what gets automated, what gets built vs what gets integrated (e.g. mobile money APIs, third-party NDVI tools)
• Maintain a living product brief that founders and engineers can use as a single source of truth — updated after every field observation, not once a quarter

Field operations and discovery

• Spend time on the ground during Pilot — observing where the manual process breaks and where it does not
• Conduct structured discovery with farmers, field liaisons, union leaders, and input suppliers to understand actual user behaviour vs assumed behaviour
• Document every workaround, improvisation, and failure mode in the manual process — this is the product spec for Season 2
• Validate that onboarding flows work on feature phones before a single farmer is registered — not after

Technical coordination

• Work directly with the Technical Lead to scope, specify, and prioritise the engineering build for Season 2
• Write product requirements that are specific enough to build from — not vague feature descriptions
• Own acceptance criteria: nothing ships without field-tested validation that it works on the devices and connectivity conditions farmers actually have
• Manage the integration architecture

Lender and partner product experience

• Own the lender-facing product: the real-time portfolio dashboard used to monitor the loan book — the single most important feature for lender trust and retention
• Work with the founder on the Mahsooli Partners onboarding and process flow

Data and risk model

• Develop the data models
• Work with the founder to formalise the models and adopt ML and AI
• Manage the monitoring product

Required Experience and QualificationsEssential

• 3+ years of product management experience — at least 2 years in a startup or early-stage environment where the product did not yet exist in its final form
• Demonstrable experience building digital products for low-connectivity environments — USSD, WhatsApp, feature phone interfaces, or offline-first mobile applications
• Experience working directly with end users in the field — not just with analytics dashboards; you must have sat with the people who will use what you build
• Strong data literacy: comfortable with spreadsheets, SQL basics, and the ability to interrogate a dataset to validate a product assumption without needing a data analyst
• Arabic fluency — spoken and written — is preferred - and the cultural literacy to work effectively with farming communities, union leaders, and rural agro dealers
• English proficiency sufficient for lender, investor, and insurance partner communications
• Based in or willing to relocate to Sudan for Pilot

Strongly preferred

• Experience in agricultural technology, agricultural finance, or development finance in Sub-Saharan Africa or MENA
• Familiarity with agtech platforms
• Working knowledge of agricultural systems or out-grower programs

Pay: Up to AED15,000.00 per month

Willingness to travel:

• 75% (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in UAE