Lead Product Manager at Ilara Health

We've started our journey by bring diagnostic support and essential tests to patients and providers who currently are unable to access these basic life-saving tools. We partner with companies that are disrupting the diagnostic device landscape, integrate their devices into our tech platform, and offer this diagnostic package plus smart financing to health facilities in peri-urban areas across Africa. As a result, our facilities are now able to offer their patients essential tests through our affordable, tech-enabled, point of care (POC) diagnostic suite.

Requirements

• You’ll be a member of ilara Health's leadership team and report to the CTO with a dotted line to the CEO. You’ll be joining an extremely fast-paced startup environment, a team of proven emerging and frontier market entrepreneurs, and build projects that have a real impact on health outcomes. We’re all super passionate about the work we do, and are looking for people with a drive to make real change in the world.
• 3+ years of product experience (product manager, engineering manager/lead, UX lead or related experience) and previous senior product role for fintech or other startups that have scaled across emerging markets.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, able to developed a strong product vision and to make strategic decisions about a market which you may not know well, able to build new products and features to increase growth and improve customer experience.
• Use data from user research/feedback, prior lessons learned and gut feeling, to form an opinion which you can sustain to the rest of the leadership team.
• Work with cross-functional teams both internally and externally to evaluate ways to increase growth rates.
• Build out a rapid experimentation framework that makes it cheap and easy to run experiments to enable data driven decisions.
• Think creatively beyond what has been done before, to build strategies based on qualitative and quantitative data.

Benefits

• At ilara Health, we are a diverse team of highly energized local and international individuals, committed to listening to the needs of our customers in peri-urban/rural primary healthcare facilities that do not have access to common diagnostic tests.
• Every individual from our interns to the company founders contributes to the success of the company in different ways.
• Every team member at ilara Health has the same drive an excitement towards achieving the collective goals. Working hard and being creative are synonymous in our start-up ethos.
• You will have the opportunity to directly/indirectly impact primary healthcare facilities/patients by dramatically improving the quality of healthcare for millions.
• Discover Africa, if you've never been here. See elephants (and medical practices far from your office) over the weekend and work hard during the week, with a lot of field work.
• This is your chance to make the world a better place for millions of people who today can't afford or don't have access to a simple blood, and join a team of equals who will treat you like a human!