Product Lead, Apps

About Amini

Amini is building the sovereign, AI-native distributed infrastructure stack for the Global South, giving governments and enterprises the data, compute, and connectivity they need to own and govern their digital future, rather than depend on outside platforms. We already work with governments across the southern hemisphere, and our work has been recognised by TIME100 AI, MIT Solve, and the World Economic Forum. We help our partners and customers put AI to work in ways that drive real growth, and make sure that opportunity is shared more equally across the Global South.

Our core values, Collaboration, Trust, Integrity, Humility, and Passion, are at the heart of everything we do. In practice, that means defaulting to sharing credit and information openly, being honest about what we don't yet know, and choosing to admit a mistake early rather than protect an ego.

Our team is small, highly skilled, and non-hierarchical. We recognise the transformational nature of our work, but we stay humble and ego-free about it. We believe in fully using our skills and experience, sharing ideas openly, and making a collective impact, one we intend to grow from the governments and communities we already work with today into a much broader influence on the AI industry and lives across the Global South. This means building the organisational muscle to deploy across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. The Product Apps Lead is a pivotal hire in that transformation.

Product Lead, Apps

As Product Lead, Apps you will be the voice of the customer, from first concept to global launch. You will shape product direction, surface new opportunities, and help bring features to life that governments and citizens across the Global South use every day. You will develop and apply insights to infuse innovative, AI-enabled capabilities into Amini's product-development process.

At Amini, we combine product management and product marketing responsibilities into a single, cross-functional Product Apps Lead role. You will own strategy, development, and go-to-market, collaborating with design, engineering, finance, legal, marketing, BD and customer success. This breadth gives you real influence at every stage of the product lifecycle.

You will own the application layer of the Amini stack, taking our products from early-stage deployments to production-grade, scalable maturity across multiple sovereign jurisdictions. This is both a hands-on product leadership role and a strategic seat at the table as Amini scales its operating model.

You will work at the intersection of government requirements, sovereign compliance constraints and fast-moving technical delivery, translating ambiguous market needs into concrete product roadmaps and shipping outcomes that directly enable Amini's expansion into new markets.

Responsibilities

Product Ownership and Roadmap

Identify opportunities by studying competitors, market trends, and real user and government needs, bringing the voice of the customer into every product decision

Own end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for the Amini application suite

Drive each product from current stage to production-grade, scalable deployments across multiple countries

Develop and maintain a prioritised backlog aligned to government / corporate contract requirements and Amini's priorities

Define success metrics, goals and performance dashboards for the apps portfolio; report progress to leadership weekly

Go-to-Market & Positioning

Define clear, compelling positioning that sets Amini's apps apart, for both technical government buyers and end users

Partner with the Business Development team to translate government requirements into product capabilities and commercial positioning

Partner with marketing and business development to deliver cohesive launches across web, documentation, press and in-country events

Build the product playbook that enables contract to live in under 30 days, from one country to multiple

Formulate product messaging and create outbound marketing materials for both technical and non-technical audiences

Team Leadership

Build and lead a high-performing product team across the apps portfolio

Establish clear decision authority, ways of working and accountability structures within the product function

Lead through influence, storytelling and healthy debate, across engineering, ops, commercial and government stakeholder teams

Mentor team members and support their development; eliminate single points of failure in the product function

Contribute to Amini's broader org transformation, moving from heroic individual effort to scalable, distributed execution

Cross-Functional Execution

Partner with Engineering to ship reliable, secure and compliant features on a cadence that matches market demand

Work closely with Customer Ops and Customer Success to ensure products are deployable, supportable and configurable per jurisdiction

Engage directly with customers during deployment, building trust and translating feedback into the roadmap

Collaborate to ensure products meet residency, compliance and interoperability requirements

Act as product representative across Customer Support, Ops, Legal and Corporate Development

Engineering & Design Partnership

Partner with engineering and design as a product champion, providing clear direction on planning, architecture trade-offs and future features

Navigate trade-offs between scope, schedule and quality to ship products that governments and citizens love to use

Collaborate with collegues to ensure products meet residency, compliance and interoperability requirements

Lead early research and development alongside engineering to define product strategy before a line of code is written

What you will have

Essential

7+ years in application product management or product leadership, with at least 3 years in a senior / lead role

Track record of taking complex software products from early-stage to production-grade at scale, ideally in infrastructure, govtech, or enterprise SaaS

Proven ability to ship AI-powered features that meaningfully expand what users can do, experience with LLMs, AI agents, or AI-enabled workflows strongly valued

Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, digital public infrastructure (DPI), or govtech applications (e.g. citizen-facing platforms, government data products)

Experience working in or with emerging markets, government clients or regulated industries

Ability to operate in ambiguity and translate high-level strategic objectives into detailed, executable product plans

Strong cross-functional leadership skills, able to align engineering, ops, commercial and customer teams without direct authority

Data-driven approach to product decisions; experience building and using product analytics, cohort analysis and market reporting

Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders, including government officials and C-suite

Highly Desirable

Experience with sovereign cloud, data residency, or digital public infrastructure programmes

Exposure to AI-powered products, large language models or Government applications

Experience presenting or speaking at a national or government level, pitching to ministers, presenting at conferences, or representing a product in the press

Prior work in Global South markets

Experience scaling a product function from scratch, building processes, tools and team capability in a fast-growth environment

Technical fluency: comfortable reading architecture diagrams, participating in engineering trade-off discussions and understanding API-first product design

Originally posted on Himalayas