Technical Product Manager

ALX Africa is a non-profit organization dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. They are seeking a Technical Product Manager to own the Experimentation-Harness for their AI learning platform, focusing on uncertainty reduction and managing beta tests to validate product effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Build a repeatable pipeline of beta learners, engaging the right internal teams to keep them flowing — the constraint that gates everything else, and it rewards hustle over process
• Instrument the AI products in partnership with the LLMOps Engineer — you instrument; they build the evals over what is captured
• Own the experiment loop — a backlog of the team’s biggest uncertainties, experiments designed against them, cycle time measured and shrinking
• Close the loop: data reviewed, UX and learning validation captured, improvements shipped, and the next PoC out the door

Requirements:

• Product experimentation: you have run it end-to-end, hypothesis, instrumentation, decision. A/B testing or structured product testing on a live product
• Technical fluency: you can talk concretely about instrumenting a product, read AI-eval results, and hold your own with engineers. You don't need to code daily
• Operator ability: recruiting and coordinating real users, running a beta programme, and wrangling stakeholders
• You have a scientific mindset. You know what an experiment can and can't conclude, and your favourite experiments include ones that killed an idea you loved
• You'd enjoy the question 'how would you get 50 beta learners in two weeks with no budget?' enough to start answering it in the interview
• Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges
• Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others
• Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond
• Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger
• hands-on eval or analytics skills
• EdTech experience