Vacancy title:
Head of Product & Engineering

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Insurance, Category: Management,Computer & IT,Science & Engineering,Business Operations]

Jobs at:
Turnkey Africa

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, May 27 2026

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 21 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Required profile

• 5+ years in product, engineering, delivery, technical operations or platform execution roles.
• Has led people, squads, workstreams or delivery teams, even if not yet at large-company head-of-function level.
• Experience working in a live customer-facing platform environment.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams and business/commercial teams.
• Experience with SaaS, fintech, InsurTech, marketplace, payments, lending, agency banking, platform operations or integration-heavy environments.

Technical and delivery capability

• Understands APIs, integrations and basic distributed-system issues.
• Can read system diagrams and integration flows.
• Understands release management, QA, rollback, monitoring and incident response.
• Can ask engineers practical questions and challenge respectfully.
• Can distinguish between product issues, engineering issues, support issues, user-training issues and partner-side issues.
• Can communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical teams.

Leadership attributes

• High ownership.
• Learns fast.
• Stays calm under pressure.
• Direct and clear communicator.
• Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Can bring order without creating bureaucracy.
• Comfortable being coached.
• Can challenge respectfully.
• Can work with senior leaders without becoming passive.
• Can grow quickly as the business grows.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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