Engineering

Project Manager

Kwetu Labs·Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya, kenya·Full Time·Onsite
EngineeringEntry levelFull TimeOnsite
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Company Description Kwetu Labs is a Web3 localization and market-integration agency, founded in 2025, that focuses on driving blockchain adoption across Africa. The team specializes in Swahili and other African language localization, ensuring products are accessible and culturally relevant to local users. Through user research and grassroots field testing, Kwetu Labs helps global blockchain projects understand real-world behaviors and needs in underserved markets. By combining language expertise with on-the-ground insights, the company enables partners to adapt their solutions and expand sustainably in diverse African communities.
Role Description The Project Manager will oversee end-to-end delivery of localization and market-integration projects for Web3 and blockchain clients, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met. This full-time role involves coordinating multidisciplinary teams, managing stakeholder expectations, and aligning project scope and objectives with client requirements. Day-to-day responsibilities include planning and tracking project milestones, organizing resources, monitoring risks and dependencies, and resolving operational issues that may affect delivery. The Project Manager will collaborate closely with localization specialists, user researchers, and field teams to ensure activities in Swahili and other African languages are executed effectively. This is an on-site role based in Mombasa, requiring regular presence for team collaboration, client meetings, and coordination with local partners.
Qualifications
  • Candidates should possess strong Project Management skills, including planning, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Candidates should possess practical Expeditor and Expediting skills to ensure timely movement of tasks, materials, and deliverables across project phases.
  • Candidates should possess Inspection skills to verify quality, compliance with requirements, and accuracy of localized content and field-testing outputs.
  • Candidates should possess Logistics Management skills to coordinate people, resources, and field operations across different locations and timelines.
  • Relevant experience in managing cross-functional projects, ideally in technology, Web3, localization, or emerging markets.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication abilities, with attention to detail and clear documentation practices.
  • Ability to work on-site in Mombasa, collaborate in diverse, multicultural teams, and interact effectively with community stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Familiarity with blockchain, Web3 ecosystems, or African language localization is an advantage.
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Company

Kwetu Labs

Location

Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya, kenya

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Entry level

Valid until

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Created

November 13, 2026

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Technology strategy, architecture, the data platform and engineering standards sit with the Chief Technology and Product Officer and the Director, Software Engineering.Key ResponsibilitiesProduct Strategy, Roadmap and Evidence35% of timeSet and own the product strategy in line with our Program and Innovation strategy: what the products are for, who they serve, what they should do three years from now, and where AI earns its place.Own a single roadmap across the active software build lines, with AI features sequenced on it alongside everything else, and decide how it is ordered.Define the objectives and key results for the product function and for each product, and review performance against them.Lead discovery with community health workers, supervisors, programme staff and government partners, and bring evidence to decisions honestly, including recommendations to stop.Design for real constraints and for government ownership: intermittent connectivity, low-end devices, variable literacy, and a recurring cost a ministry can carry.AI Capability and Practice30% of timeLead the transformation to a truly AI-native engineering organisation, set the strategy and roadmap to move the department up its AI-maturity curve. This is a multi-stage journey and we are still early; part of the job is bringing the whole team up, including those who haven't yet reached today's baseline, and then getting to the next level and the one after.Lead from the front - stay genuinely hands-on. Pair with engineers and set the standard for AI-assisted development: agentic workflows, skills, memory, and the day-to-day craft. You are the head of engineering people look up to, not a project manager.Turn functions into leverage reshape roles like QA and product design away from per-team, per-task work toward factory capabilities: building the agents and systems that test and design at scale. Build the machine that tests the products, don't test them by hand.Manage the human side of the change take engineers through a fundamental shift in how they work, address the real fears that come with it, and turn the transition into something the team is energised by.Deliver ship against programme and product commitments with a lean, high-leverage team, and keep quality high as more of the work moves through an agentic toolchain.Building Product Culture15% of timeDefine what good product management looks like at Living Goods and make it visible: problem statements, outcome measures, written decisions and honest post-release review.Establish the operating rhythm of the function, covering intake, refinement, release planning and outcome review.Shift the default question from what should we build to what problem are we solving and how will we know it worked.Accelerate experimentation and hypothesis-based learning: frame work as testable hypotheses, design the cheapest test that could disprove one, and treat a disproved hypothesis as a good outcome.Make the case for product management across programmes, engineering and country teams, and make it safe to stop things on evidence.Coaching and Capability Development10% of timeLine manage, coach and develop the product management team, with clear expectations and regular, specific feedback.Build a structured development path for the team, covering core product skills: user research, written communication, stakeholder management and commercial judgement.Support colleagues moving into product from other disciplines with proper onboarding and a real transition plan, not just a change of title.Recruit consistently against a clear bar, and build succession so the function doesn't depend on any one person.Stakeholder and Partner Engagement10% of timeInput accurate technical content for donor proposals and reports.The Person We are Looking ForWe are looking for a product leader who has built a product function from nothing, who coaches by instinct, and who has real AI depth. The role suits someone who measures success by what the team can do without them, who is comfortable running discovery in a village and arguing a model choice with engineers, and who is honest about limitations, because overclaiming is fatal with an evidence-literate audience.EssentialWhat the Role Requires 10 or more years in product management, including 3 or more years leading, coaching and developing product managers.Experience establishing product management where it did not previously exist, including the work of persuading colleagues to adopt it.AI features shipped into production, covering evaluation, quality control and human oversight, not proof of concept work alone.Judgement in choosing between models and providers on capability, latency, offline behaviour, data residency, cost and exit options.Ownership of several products at different lifecycle stages, with evidence of having stopped or changed direction on the basis of data.Strong discovery practice with users in low-connectivity, low-literacy or resource-constrained settings.Excellent written communication. The post-holder must make the case for product management in writing to sceptical audiences, so this is near-disqualifying if weak.DesirableExperience in digital health, community health systems or international development.Experience of building for or handing over to government systems.Experience of open-source health platforms such as CHT, OpenSRP or CommCare.Leadership CompetenciesImpact First. Uses digital products to improve health outcomes and system performance, not as an end in themselves.Product Judgement. Decides what to build, what to stop and what to leave alone, and can explain the reasoning to engineers, programme staff and donors alike.Evidence Over Enthusiasm. Tests claims before making them, and is precise about what has been proven and at what scale.AI Fluency. Applies AI to real health system problems with a clear grasp of capability, cost, risk and the limits of current models.Builds Capability in Others. Coaches rather than corrects, and leaves colleagues more capable than they were.How To ApplyProcessApplications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is closed. Early applications are strongly encouraged.CompensationA competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.Bottom of Form

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