Product Manager
BURN Manufacturing
Product
Nairobi, Kenya
Posted on Mar 25, 2026
About the role
BURN is looking for a Product Manager to lead the end-to-end development and lifecycle of innovative clean cooking products, ensuring they deliver strong customer value and align with business goals. The role involves working cross-functionally with R&D, commercial, and operations teams to bring products from concept to market while driving continuous improvement through data and customer insights.
Duties and Responsibilities
BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).
BURN is looking for a Product Manager to lead the end-to-end development and lifecycle of innovative clean cooking products, ensuring they deliver strong customer value and align with business goals. The role involves working cross-functionally with R&D, commercial, and operations teams to bring products from concept to market while driving continuous improvement through data and customer insights.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Put the customer first. Work closely with Market research, Industrial design and Commercial team to design products that deliver functional and lifetime value to the customer, with a scalable business model.
- Developing a comprehensive product roadmap that aligns with the company's overall product strategy.
- Work with design engineers to develop and maintain product BOM and Spec sheets.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product introduction into operations.
- Managing the product development process, from ideation to launch, to achieve planned timelines.
- Documenting product development processes and creating new ones as needed to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Serving as a liaison between R&D, operations, and commercial business functions to ensure alignment on product goals and strategies.
- Analyzing and interpreting product performance data to inform product optimization and improvement efforts.
- Managing the product lifecycle, including product end-of-life decisions and exit strategies.
- Developing and executing product marketing plans, including pricing, promotion, and distribution strategies.
- Monitoring industry trends and competitor activity to stay ahead of market developments and identify potential threats or opportunities.
- Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and partners, to ensure successful product outcomes and collaboration.
- Product Ownership: Takes full accountability, accurately scopes projects, and follows through on execution from product ideation to launch activities.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Simplifies complex decisions by framing discussions around real data, including customer feedback, lab tests, costs, profitability analysis, and durability data.
- Completeness of Work: Consistently self-checks and validates assumptions to ensure critical details are not missed. Strives to deliver the best results by considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.
- Responsiveness & Documentation: Master key aspects of the product quickly and adopt best documentation practices to efficiently extract and share vital information.
- Anticipatory Project Management: Stays on top of all the moving pieces in the cross-functional team. Anticipates next steps, risks, and opportunities.
- Empathetic Stakeholder Management: Listens and takes feedback with empathy. Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers and suppliers, to ensure successful product outcomes.
- Customer Obsession: Demonstrates a deep, obsessive understanding of customer needs and possesses the technical skills necessary to translate those needs into product features.
BURN does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).
