Position Title: Product Manager
Location: Lagos or anywhere in Nigeria
Department: Product
Reports To: Senior Vice President, Engineering
About Us
Rivy (YC S21) finances clean energy in Nigeria. Through Energy Stack, households and businesses get solar panels, batteries and inverters by paying a small amount upfront and spreading the rest. We're also building financing that installers and partners can offer inside their own sales. The goal is simple to say and hard to do: make clean energy the obvious choice for millions of Nigerians who currently run on generators.
The Role
Our sales, operations, credit and customer teams sit closest to the problems that slow adoption down. A customer drops off halfway through an application. An installer can't tell whether a buyer qualifies. A collections team works from a spreadsheet because the tool they need doesn't exist yet.
We need someone who goes and finds those problems, works out which ones matter most, and turns them into products our engineers can build. Some of what you ship will be customer-facing. A lot of it will be the internal tools that let our business teams move faster. You'll decide what gets built and why, and you'll stay with it until it's live and working.
This isn't a people-management role. Engineering reports elsewhere. Your job is the product: the problem, the direction, the spec, and whether it worked.
What you'll do
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Spend real time with our business and customer teams, and with customers and installers directly, to understand where things break.
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Turn what you find into clear problem statements and priorities, and defend them when they're challenged.
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Write specs engineers can build from, then run delivery with them week to week.
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Pull your own data. You'll answer most questions about loans, payments and funnels yourself in SQL rather than waiting on someone else.
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Decide how we'll know something worked before it ships, and check afterwards.
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Get out of the office. Some of the most useful research happens at an installer's shop or on a call with a customer who just missed a payment.
Qualifications
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At least 3 years as a product manager, with real ownership of what shipped. More experience is welcome, and we'd love to see stretches where you operated at a senior level
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Evidence that you started from a business or customer problem, not a feature request, and can show what changed because of your work
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Comfortable with SQL and with drawing conclusions from messy data
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Strong at writing specs and running delivery with engineers, in Jira, Linear or similar
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You do your own research and enjoy it, including in person
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You understand how Nigerians buy, borrow and pay, or you can show us how quickly you learn a market
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Pluses: lending, fintech, energy, or products where an operations team is a core user
How we work
Small team, high ownership, and things move fast. We use AI tools every day and expect you to as well, but the judgement on what to build stays with you.
Compensation
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A dynamic and engaging work environment.
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Competitive pay and staff benefits.
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Opportunity to work with a passionate and dedicated team.
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Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
Process
A short first call, a practical exercise based on a real Rivy problem, and conversations with the team. We move quickly and you'll hear from us either way.
