Head of Products

Salary: competitive, plus performance bonus

About us

African Institute of AI and Enterprise Transformation (AIET Africa™) is an African institution for executive capability, technology development, enterprise engineering, digital transformation, applied research, policy engagement, innovation and economic development.

Its work will serve:

Private enterprises, from SMEs to large corporations.

Government ministries, agencies and public institutions.

Universities, schools and other education providers.

Entrepreneurs, startups and incubated ventures.

Investors, development partners and industry associations.

Your organisations, subsidiaries and affiliated initiatives.

Individual executives, professionals and institutional leaders.

As a fast-growing group, We are building digital platforms across fintech, commerce, trade, lifestyle, education, investment and mining. Our first six operating systems exist as working prototypes. We are now building them properly and taking them live, with many more products planned across new sectors.

The role You will be our first product leader. At the start you will personally own all six products: defining what each one launches with, guiding a shared engineering team, and taking them live in sequence. As we grow, you will hire and lead a team of Product Owners and set how product works across the whole group. You will report to the CEO.

What you will do

Set the product vision, roadmap and launch sequence for a multi-sector portfolio

Act as Product Owner for six platforms: launch scope, backlogs, user stories, betas and go-live

Make sure every product reuses one shared platform for identity, payments, data and AI

Build compliance, security and great customer experience into every product

Hire, coach and lead Product Owners as each product grows

Work with our Commercial and Media Leads to price, position and grow each product

What you bring

10+ years in product, including 4+ years leading product teams or a portfolio

Several products launched from early build to real users, in more than one sector

Still hands-on: you can write user stories and run a backlog yourself

Strong technical and data fluency, including AI and platform thinking

Experience working within regulation (fintech, investment, data protection or similar)

Deep understanding of Nigerian and African digital customers

Why join

Shape an entire product portfolio from day one, with a seat at the leadership table

Breadth few roles offer: payments, commerce, trade, learning, investment and mining

Build and lead your own team as the group expands

Competitive pay, performance bonus, HMO, pension, learning budget.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Minimum qualifications

MBA/MSc/MA

How to apply

Send your CV and a Cover Letter with proposed strategic impact and action plan if employed to jobsearchconsults@gmail.com and searchrecruitments@gmail.com with the subject "Head of Product". In your note, describe how you would decide the launch order of six products with one shared engineering team, and one product decision you got wrong and what you learned.

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