Sun King
About the role
The Associate Product Manager will work as part of the Enterprise Products team to help Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products and strong communication skills for our in-house software development team.
What you will be expected to do:
- Gather, prioritise and refine requirements while keeping team members well informed.
- Create use cases, flow charts, mock screens, PRDs for business requirements, user requirements, functional & non-functional requirements and system requirements.
- Work on the Go-To-Market / rolling out of new products/apps/automations and resolving stakeholder queries/issues.
- Work with cross-functional groups and assist in the entire product lifecycle from design to development to launch.
- Test applications/solutions/web panels at various stages of the life cycle.
- Work with the development team/or independently on integrations (using 3rd party tools to create mobile applications).
- Travel as per company requirements to places including but not limited to Kenya, India Uganda, Nigeria, Myanmar and Tanzania.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- A bachelor’s degree and prior 1-2 years of experience in software product management.
- Experience of rolling out successful products in the past.
- Able to structure and analyse ambiguous problems.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly through workflows, feature descriptions etc.
- Decent hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel and SQL, and any designing tools like Figma etc.
- Attention to detail and good documentation skills.
- Proactive and have willingness to get hands dirty.
- Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with the team and diverse mix of stakeholders within the organization.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
To apply for this job please visit sunking.pinpointhq.com.
