Product Owner Nairobi/Berlin – Education  Platform

At EIDU, we create a mobile learning platform for young children in poor areas where it’s hard to get the high-quality education that all children deserve.

We are looking for a Product Owner who will develop solutions for our challenges: How to bring our system to children in need? How to increase learning? How to engage teachers and parents into the project? How to scale globally…

What we do and why

We believe that all children should be given the chance to reach their full intellectual potential, however more than 600 million children in the world are not even learning foundational skills like reading and basic math despite the majority of them going to school. Our solution enables them to learn by themselves and provide teachers with high quality teaching support. It works globally, even on the cheapest smartphones and tablets.

We are developing the EIDU system in the toughest conditions we could find: with many thousand children in two of the largest urban slums in Africa, located in Nairobi, Kenya and we are on our way to scale to many different places in the world. We collect data from all players, children, teachers, parents and school owners and so have a vast, rich dataset, qualitative and quantitative.

If you would like to know more, see the TEDx talk about EIDU’s beginning at www.eidu.com

You will

• Work at least half of the year out of our Nairobi office to collaborate with our team in Kenya to choose validated, valuable problems to solve or opportunities to embrace.
• Use your experience in agile product development, design thinking or similar methodologies and create a very fast test environment in Nairobi to quickly come up with the best solutions to our current product challenges and opportunities.
• Work in a result-oriented way to increase the core KPIs of EIDU like teacher engagement.
• Use qualitative and quantitative methods to understand our users and how they use our products.
• Help the team that implements your stories to understand the problem, compare and contrast opportunities and select among possible solutions.
• Coach and nurture those of your colleagues who want to move towards a product management role.

Your experience includes

• Management of end-to-end product development of one or more successful, preferably consumer-focused, digital app products or features.
• Delivering projects with little to no supervision.

You have

• A drive to make the world a better place with the help of software.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills – we speak English here.
• Preferably worked in education or edtech or for a mobile app product.

We offer

• An international team (from 9 countries) with professionals in learning experience design, UX, psychology, systems development & data analysis.
• Passionate colleagues, who support and challenge each other to achieve our great vision.
• Great flexibility regarding working hours, vacations. We focus on results, not time spent in the office.
• An attractive compensation scheme consisting of a competitive salary and company shares.
• One of the coolest office locations in Berlin
• Real possibilities to improve what we do and how we do it.
• Free flights to Nairobi and help with everything you need on the ground