Senior Product Manager, Mobile Operator Data

Job Role: Senior Product Manager - Mobile Operator Data

Exp Required: Atleast 5+ years of relevant work experience in technical or data-focused role, ideally in mobile technology, humanitarian tech, data science, or international development.

Job Location: fully remote but must overlap with an East Africa time zone by at least 3 hours Nairobi, Kenya

Company Name: Indsafri

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

NOTE:

***********************KINDLY DO NOT APPLY IF YOU HAVE LESS THAN 5 YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXP IN TECHNICAL OR DATA FOCUSED ROLE - MOBILE TECHNOLOGY, DATA SCIENCE OR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - (IT). FRESHERS OR LESS THAN 5 YEARS OF EXP IN TECHNICAL OR DATA FOCUSED ROLE - MOBILE TECHNOLOGY, DATA SCIENCE OR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLEASE DO NOT APPLY *****************

******************WE HIRE ONLY KENYAN CITIZENS, SO OTHER COUNTRY CITIZENS PLEASE DO NOT APPLY********
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Job Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager, Mobile Operator Data to lead our approach to working with MNO data and provide technical supervision of our collaborations with telecommunications companies and related partners globally. This role will sit within the International Rapid Response Product team and support our mission to deliver cash assistance in crisis situations more rapidly and equitably.

You will drive the design, implementation, and scale-up of systems that use mobile phone data — including call detail records (CDRs), mobile money usage, and cell tower metadata — to identify individuals or communities in need of humanitarian assistance. You'll work at the intersection of technology, data science, and humanitarian aid, enabling faster, more targeted response efforts.

This is an opportunity to build a high-impact recipient identification and enrollment

capability that can transform crisis response and directly support people displaced

by conflict, natural disasters, and economic shocks.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead mobile data program design initiatives: Design and manage end-to end data analysis approaches using mobile network operator (MNO) data for recipient identification and enrollment, in collaboration with internal teams and external partners

• Partner with telcos: Serve as organization technical lead in negotiations and collaboration with telecommunications companies to enable access to and use of mobile data for program design.

• Technical Backstop: Serve as the technical backstop for country teams, vendors and partners to ensure high quality, principled analytic and processing approaches to mobile network operator (MNO) data.

• Develop and refine data pipelines: Oversee the creation and validation of mobile data processing pipelines to ensure data integrity, privacy compliance, and analytical rigor.

• Support program operations: Work with country teams and internal and external data science capacity to pilot and implement mobile-data-informed enrollment strategies that improve targeting speed, accuracy, and inclusivity.

• Ensure ethical use of data: Uphold principles of responsible data use and data minimization in all work, ensuring privacy, consent, and security are upheld.

• Contribute to strategy and innovation: Identify new opportunities to integrate mobility data into company's humanitarian and cash transfer programming across countries.

• Build Momentum: Ensure company's experience with mobile data across contexts is advancing a broader goal to create a global capacity to work with mobile network operator (MNO) data wherever relevant.

Qualifications:

• Atleast 5+ years of relevant work experience in technical or data-focused role, ideally in mobile technology, humanitarian tech, data science, or international development.
• Extensive experience managing complex partnership relationships and negotiating collaboration frameworks to achieve project outcomes.
• Experience working with or for mobile network operators and a demonstrated understanding of the MNO business model, incentive structures, and sensitivities.
• Experience working with or analyzing mobile phone data (e.g. call records, tower data, mobile money).
• Ability to coordinate the evaluation of machine learning algorithms for appropriate methods, model validation, and fairness metrics and guide model design in collaboration with technical teams.
• Deep understanding of data privacy and protection principles, particularly in relation to the use of telecommunications and geolocation data in humanitarian settings. Experience applying frameworks such as GDPR,
• Responsible Data for Children, or Humanitarian Data Ethics standards is strongly preferred.
• Excellent project management skills,
• Language Requirement: English fluency

Preferred:

• Familiarity with GIS tools, Python, R, and/or SQL.

• Advanced data science degree or commensurate experience with machine learning

• Experience in humanitarian response, displacement, or poverty alleviation contexts.

Technical Skills Required: (Mandatory)

• Atleast 5+ years of relevant work experience in technical or data-focused technology, ideally in mobile technology, humanitarian tech, data science, or international development.
• Extensive experience managing complex partnership relationships and negotiating collaboration frameworks to achieve project outcomes.
• Experience working with or for mobile network operators and a demonstrated understanding of the MNO business model, incentive structures, and sensitivities.
• Experience working with or analyzing mobile phone data (e.g. call records, tower data, mobile money).
• Ability to coordinate the evaluation of machine learning algorithms for appropriate methods, model validation, and fairness metrics and guide model design in collaboration with technical teams.
• Deep understanding of data privacy and protection principles, particularly in relation to the use of telecommunications and geolocation data in humanitarian settings. Experience applying frameworks such as GDPR,
• Responsible Data for Children, or Humanitarian Data Ethics standards is strongly preferred.

Note:

This is a 1 year renewable contract role (Contract can be further extended or renewed based on your performance). Kindly don't apply if you are looking for a part-time, freelancing, and moonlighting jobs.

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WHY INDSAFRI:

We believe anything is possible We humans have the potential to create and build anything we can imagine. we have walked the entire planet, climbed the greatest mountains, sailed once infinite oceans, inspired by birds we decided to fly, in our once impossible quest for space, now we even float in the outer space. Everything started with a simple belief that something is possible, from simple beginnings, we have come a long way, to building technology that is indistinguishable from magic. And we believe that technology is at its best when it can make people smile. If we do it with all our passion & intelligence, together nothing is impossible. How do we do it? In the future, every business will be a technology company, & the future is now. From food to finance every business is rapidly transforming & embracing cutting-edge technology at its core & good humanistic design at its heart. Indsafri can transform your business for growth, as we have done for numerous organizations big and small, by working as your trusted technology partner and bringing our deep industry experience. If you have a challenging business problem we believe there is always a solution, with the right process, talents & technology anything is possible. The Impact we create: We work with some of the Best Organizations around the world, with a distributed global network of Partners & Talents, using state-of-the-art cutting-edge Technology & High-end Human-Centred Design.

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