Job particulars
- Job title
- Chief Technology & Product Officer
- Hiring organisation
- s Expand Recruitment Services
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Industry
- IT
- Level
- Management
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Posted
- 26 Oct 2026
- Closing date
- 9 Nov 2026
Key responsibilities
- Technology and Product Strategy 30% of time.
- Set and own a single technology and product strategy, aligned with Living Goods’ organizational and country strategies.
- Prioritize the digital investment portfolio against health impact, cost-effectiveness and government adoption, and decide which work to start, continue or stop.
- Set the build, buy, partner or adopt policy and apply it to all significant technology decisions.
- Assess emerging technologies, including AI, and decide which to adopt.
- Track technical debt and lead a funded plan to reduce it.
- Manage technology budgets and cloud spend within restricted donor funding.
- Product Management and Delivery 20% of time.
- Own the product roadmap across all software build lines.
- Oversee delivery governance, covering intake, prioritization, release readiness and post-release review.
- Oversee the product management function, including its standards and resourcing.
- Embed hypothesis-based testing, so that new ideas are tested at small scale before further investment.
- Ensure products generate the data needed to monitor use and demonstrate impact.
- Architecture, Engineering and Security 15% of time.
- Set architecture and engineering standards for scalable, interoperable and reliable solutions that work offline on low-cost devices and on a national scale.
- Own platform strategy across country deployments, including upgrade paths, country variation and supplier exit options.
- Oversee engineering quality, delivery predictability, and operational performance.
- Oversee cybersecurity, secure development practice and technology risk management.
- Ensure business continuity, monitoring, and incident response for systems that support clinical decisions.
- Data, Analytics and AI 10% of time.
- Define and lead the implementation of a responsible and safe AI strategy.
- Lead the organization-wide roll-out of the data platform, with information products tailored to each audience.
- Oversee data governance, quality, security, privacy, and access in line with national regulations.
- Integrate AI across the software development lifecycle and the function’s ways of working.
- Government Partnership and Systems Strengthening 15% of time.
- Work with ministries of health and national digital health authorities to strengthen community health information systems.
- Align Living Goods digital work with national digital health strategies, architectures and standards.
- Lead the transition of digital platforms into government systems and ownership, using implementation and cost models that governments can sustain.
- Build government technical capacity to own, operate and maintain digital solutions.
- Promote interoperability, open standards, and reuse of shared national systems.
Candidate requirements
- Essential
- 15 Or more years of progressive technology and product leadership experience, including substantial experience of large-scale digital transformation.
- 8 Or more years in senior leadership roles spanning engineering, product, data and technology organizations.
- Deep technical expertise across software engineering, data architecture, cloud infrastructure and systems integration, enough to set technical standards and challenge design decisions directly.
- A proven track record of building or turning round a product management function, including hiring and developing product managers and setting standards for their work.
- Accountability for AI-enabled products in live use at organizational scale, beyond pilots, including managing and fixing failures.
- Experience designing and applying AI strategy and governance in a high-stakes field such as health, including risk classification, human oversight and escalation, and decisions not to deploy.
- Experience of leading teams of 15 or more across multiple countries,.
- A strong understanding of Africa’s digital ecosystem and health system landscape.
- Experience engaging governments, donors and global partners on technology strategy and digital transformation.
- Desirable
- A dual background spanning technology and health.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field. Equivalent senior-level experience will be considered.
- Private sector experience.
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Hiring organisation
s Expand Recruitment Services