Product Manager
Apollo Agriculture
Product
Nairobi, Kenya
Posted on Jun 13, 2025
About Apollo Agriculture:
Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to boost profits and farm sustainably. Apollo uses AI and automation to unlock the massive small-scale farming market, enabling farmers to access optimized financing, high-quality inputs, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions. Apollo has grown quickly since launch, already reaching more than 400,000 paying farmers across Kenya and Zambia. Apollo’s technology unlocks a radically better cost structure for financing and supplying critical farming inputs, advice, and risk solutions to smallholder farmers, enabling a future where millions of underserved farmers grow more, earn more, and thrive in a sustainable, market-driven system.
About the Role:
As a Product Manager, you’ll take ownership of one of our core markets, leading the rollout and evolution of Apollo’s platform and driving continuous improvements along the way. You’ll work across functions—from engineering and design to field ops and credit—to understand complex constraints, make tradeoffs, ship high-impact technology, and deliver customer-centric solutions that scale. The ideal candidate rapidly assimilates new information, forms and expresses sound strategic judgments, motivates everyone around them, and is equally comfortable defending their opinion as admitting when they are wrong.
Responsibilities:
- Help design and execute our product strategy and technology roadmap with urgency, deep thinking, and strong ownership—collaborating across Apollo to drive excellence at scale.
- Rally people across the organization to deliver high-quality products, on time, for our customers
- Work closely with our operations teams and learn from our customers in the field to develop technology that dramatically increases our operational efficiency and positions the business for radical scale
- Transform ideas into clear, functional product features and work with our engineers to ensure projects are managed efficiently and features are built to spec.
- Model how we work: be deeply curious, prioritize the customer’s reality over internal theory, and hold the bar high—for your work and for the team around you.
- Your core responsibilities will evolve and shift as Apollo grows. You will thrive in this role if you embrace rather than struggle with frequent change.
You:
- Work fast, think deeply, and take ownership—not just of your lane, but of Apollo’s mission. You seek truth in the field, embrace data and feedback, and build with urgency. You push for excellence, not perfection.
- Collaborate across product, engineering, operations, and credit to design high-leverage solutions that are both customer-centric and operationally scalable.
- Translate complex business needs into clear, functional product requirements—and ensure features are delivered to spec, on time, and with high quality.
- Partner closely with field teams and customers to ground product decisions in reality, not theory. Use field insights to shape strategy and drive iteration.
- Champion clarity, accountability, and momentum across the product lifecycle—from problem definition to post-launch outcomes.
We:
- Are a mission-driven team working at the intersection of technology, operations, and agriculture to solve real problems for smallholder farmers.
- Move fast, take smart risks, and build with urgency—because our customers’ livelihoods depend on what we deliver.
- Know that scale doesn’t come from perfect plans, but from relentless iteration, grounded in deep thinking, field insights, and data.
- Listen deeply, debate openly, and collaborate across boundaries—because the best ideas often come from unexpected places.
- Care about outcomes, not ego. We hold ourselves and each other to a high bar, and we all roll up our sleeves to make the work excellent.
- Take ownership—of our work, our decisions, and our mission—and we do what it takes to move Apollo forward.
- Offer competitive compensation, meaningful ownership, and the chance to grow on a team that takes your work—and your development—seriously.
Apollo Agriculture does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. Apollo Agriculture is an equal opportunity/equal access employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.
Apollo Agriculture is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we may conduct background investigations for all final candidates being considered for employment. Background checks may include, but are not limited to, criminal history, national sex offender search, and motor vehicle history.
Apollo Agriculture does not charge money or any kind of fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
