About the Role
You will help shape how Africa-first language models move from the build stage into real-world deployment. Working across mobile operators, startups, researchers, public-sector partners, and digital service providers, you will identify priority use cases, define pilot pathways, structure partner propositions, and support the commercial logic for early deployments.
Success in this role will mean that priority language model projects have clear use cases, credible pilot designs, defined partner roles, practical routes to users, and measurable success criteria. You will translate model capabilities into product, service, and market propositions that partners can understand, support, and ultimately deploy.
Key Responsibilities
- Pilot Development: Support the development of practical pilot concepts for priority language models, defining pilot structures and KPIs.
- Market Proposition: Translate model capabilities into market-facing opportunities for operators, partners, funders, and public-sector stakeholders.
- Use-Case Library: Strengthen the initiative’s use-case library across priority languages, sectors (including digital health, agriculture, education, financial services), and markets.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Work closely with technical, policy, and ecosystem colleagues to ensure that deployment pathways are feasible, responsible, and aligned with the wider objectives of the initiative.
- Strategic Planning: Shape value propositions, deployment logic, sustainability considerations, and routes to scale.
- Execution: Help move ideas from concept to structured pilots with clear actions, timelines, owners, and success measures.
Qualifications and Experience
- Education: BA/BSc/HND qualification in a relevant field.
- Experience: Demonstrable experience in go-to-market strategy, commercialisation, innovation delivery, product strategy, or pilot-to-scale execution.
- Technology & AI: Comfortable taking early-stage digital, AI-enabled, or technology-led products from concept into pilot.
- Ecosystem Knowledge: Experience with mobile operators, digital platforms, public-sector innovation, or African markets. Familiarity with sectors such as health, agriculture, education, or digital public infrastructure is valuable.
- Soft Skills: Strong stakeholder management skills; ability to communicate clearly and persuasively when translating technical work into market-facing opportunities.
- Mindset: Delivery-focused, practical, self-directed, and able to work in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
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