Senior Product Manager

About the Company

Our Client is a global, technology-driven not-for-profit committed to accelerating job creation, innovation, and skill development in emerging economies. Through a portfolio of programs in skilling, entrepreneurship, and innovation, They aim to empower millions by 2030.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Overall Product Leadership
• Identify key program and user needs.
• Develop corresponding requirements and success metrics for the Innovation Platform.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Design teams to build or customize platform features, taking full advantage of AI technologies as appropriate.
• Represent the platform to external stakeholders as required.
• Unified Researcher Support
• Design and develop a new researcher support system that enables researchers to efficiently submit reports on their grant progress (via existing Grants Management tool) while also obtaining support in areas of critical needs
• Enable integrated tracking and monitoring, with data aggregation and disaggregation
• Entrepreneurship Capacity-Building
• Design and scale programs that equip researchers with translation and startup skills.
• Embed founder-readiness content (videos, playbooks, templates) and expert-led master-classes into researcher journeys
• Oversee Content staff in instructional design decisions and in operationalizing content development and curation.
• Resource Network
• Oversee development and implementation of algorithms to efficiently match researchers with mentors, experts, investors, incubators, accelerators, service providers, and funding organizations.
• Design and deliver tools to capture expert insights and track usage, outcomes, and satisfaction to continuously improve network quality.

Skills and qualifications

• 10+ years experience in software product development, with 5+ years experience in one or more of (a) business entrepreneurship support, (b) Learning & Development, and (c) start-up or business mentor networks
• Experience managing data-rich, multi-feature platforms that integrate learning, CRM, and/or workflow tools
• Strongly preferred: Experience overseeing content development
• Strongly preferred: Experience in innovation, research translation, and/or startup incubation
• Demonstrated experience building and managing high-performing teams across diverse functions.
• Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills, combined with excellent execution skills.

What's On Offer

• End‑to‑end product ownership of a mission‑critical platform (0→1 and 1→N)
• Direct influence on organization‑level strategy, not just feature execution
• build and scale a national‑level innovation platform with global visibility, deep ownership, and long‑term impact