Senior Product Manager – Point of Sale (POS)

Maisha Meds is hiring! We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our Point of Sale (POS) product that is currently being used in over 1000 facilities in East Africa. The POS app helps health facilities run their business with easy to use features like inventory management, customer credit, reporting, insights, & much more. We also use data from our point of sale product to design programs that leverage financial incentives to improve uptake of high impact health products.

Join Our Team

Maisha Meds is an organization dedicated to improving health care in Africa. We began full-time operations in 2017 and over the past few years has grown to support over 2.5million patient encounters annually across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia with our suite of software products.  We are building the financial and technology infrastructure to enable global health funders to pay for health outcomes at the last mile, with a focus on malaria case management (and results from a RCT with UC Berkeley due out later this year), injectable contraceptives, prenatal care, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, and COVID testing and vaccination.

We measure our success by our ability to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare diagnosis, treatment, and prevention for low-income patients across Africa.  And we work with a mix of leading global health funders, pharmaceutical companies, and ministries of health to make this happen.

Who We’re Looking For

An enthusiastic and diligent team member who would join the Product team with a key focus on creating the best digital experiences for customers.  You will be responsible for product strategy, planning and execution throughout the full product lifecycle. This includes but is not limited to researching, gathering, and prioritizing requirements, defining the product vision, goals and success metrics. This role is a mix between discovery and delivery and you’ll work closely with the UX/UI Designer, Chief Product Officer, and the rest of the product, tech, and operations teams. The ideal candidate should have a background in product management, preferably with some prior experience working with healthcare or payments products. You ​​should also be data-driven in decision-making and comfortable with monitoring analytics and deriving insights from how products perform and determining the future path of iterative improvement.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Develop and implement product strategies consistent with Maisha Meds vision
  • Collect and analyze user insights from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products and lead design sprints  for key product features
  • Work with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps, prioritize backlog, and oversee feature breakdown
  • Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
  • Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision
  • Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users and use data to drive decisions, experiment, and optimize experiences using A/B testing and other methods.  
  • Represent the voice of the end consumer throughout the development process.
  • Ensure that high standards of reliability, quality, usability and measurement are adhered to throughout each phase of product development
  • Field visits at least once a month to Maisha Meds facilities with the main aim of gathering insights and making recommendations
  • Own and be accountable for the in-market performance of delivered products, ensuring that your product meets improvement, usage, and customer satisfaction objectives. 
  • Build team culture to ensure our engineers, operations team, and others collaborate effectively and love working together

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of product management or equivalent experience with demonstrated ability to discover opportunities, and then define and deliver products
  • Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
  • Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams
  • Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
  • Analyze market data to develop sales strategies, and define product objectives for effective marketing communications plans
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, operations, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization
  • Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates Maisha Meds and its features across primary market segments

Tell me more about Maisha Meds

  • On a roll: Doubling year over year with new funding partnerships soon to be announced and recent expansion into Uganda, Nigeria, and Ethiopia
  • Great team: Founded, managed and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, mPharma, I&M bank.  We have technologists, clinicians, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
  • Great funders: We’re backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO FIND, and Pfizer to pay for healthcare on behalf of patients, with others to be announced soon.
  • Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing $50+ billion market for healthcare payments for low-income patients, with a focus on paying for health outcomes to ensure patients get better.
  • Great customers: Create incentives that ensure our nurses, pharmacists, and clinicians provide excellent care and pay them when this happens.
  • Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact.

We offer competitive salary and benefits for the African continent, including health insurance, 401(k) / pension, stock options, and sponsorship for work visas in Kenya.

Apply here!