The Baobab Network is looking for Dynamic, Innovative and Visionary people to fill 3 Job Vacancies. Applications close on 30th June, 2021.
The Baobab Network is advertising for three vacancy positions: Venture Partner- Growth & Business Development, Junior Venture Partner- Marketing/ Branding and Junior Venture Partner- Technical Product Manager.
They are dedicated to developing the leading early-stage investor for frontier markets.
About The Roles
Venture Partner- Growth & Business Development
The Baobab Network is looking for someone who will help them develop and roll out their capacity growth support to start-ups founders in Africa. It is for someone who can work with tech start-ups and traditional tech start-ups where perhaps end customers are not as digital savvy to drive business growth.
In summary your main roles are divided into 3 segments:
- Growth Marketer– you are required to work with their internal teams to establish growth and expansion strategies to support their portfolio’s companies and fill in opportunity gaps.
- Business Development- Identify and unlock business opportunities for growth by supporting start-ups’ effort in understanding market positions, improve their negotiations strategies.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in a growth / business development / partnerships role in start-ups.
- You must be a blend between an analytical and creative person.
- Analytical mindset to drive user growth, engagement and conversion.
- Solid project management skills: ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners.
- Strong communication and presentation abilities. Comfortable communicating, discussing, and debating insights with leaders within the start-ups.
- You’ve worked in a start-up or, even better, have started your own business.
- You have a demonstrable passion for Africa, technology and entrepreneurship.
- You’re a people person, capable of identifying, nurturing and amplifying the potential in others.
- You’re an excellent communicator and are fluent in English, with bonus points if you also speak French or Portuguese.
- You are always learning and constantly challenging yourself and others around you to be better
Junior Venture Partner- Marketing & Branding
This role is for someone with good knowledge and exposure to marketing and branding for early-stage ventures with software design knowledge.
You are expected to Play an active role managing and supporting start-ups within their portfolio, blending project management, strategy consulting, marketing principles; work alongside founders remotely and in-market to help grow their businesses.
- Marketing– Work closely with the startups to create and implement successful marketing campaigns from ideation to execution to our portfolio companies
- Branding– Create brand identity, mission & values, positioning, and voice for their audiences. As well as to define key consumer target segments & point of brand differentiation.
Requirements
- 2 to 5+ years experience in marketing / branding.
- Experience in developing content for digital communications channels, including web sites, intranets, email campaigns, and social media.
- Very data driven and should be curious about and tell stories using data.
- Experience with traditional & digital marketing.
- AdWords and analytic platforms, mail programs such as Constant Contact and Mailchimp, blogging and blogging platforms, website creation and management.
- Genuine intellectual curiosity, strong interpersonal skills and ability to build diverse relationships.
- Energy, hustle, and initiator mentality.
- Strong communication and presentation abilities. Comfortable communicating, discussing, and debating insights with leaders within the start-ups.
- Start-up experience is essential as the ideal candidate must be able to illustrate where you’ve encountered difficulty and must understand the demands of a start-up environment. You’ve worked in a start-up or, even better, have started your own business.
- You have a demonstrable passion for Africa, technology and entrepreneurship.
- You’re a people person, capable of identifying, nurturing and amplifying the potential in others.
- You’re an excellent communicator and are fluent in English, with bonus points if you also speak French or Portuguese.
- You are always learning and constantly challenging yourself and others around you to be better.
Junior Venture Partner- Technical Product Manager
This is a technical product role; they are looking for someone who has a technical background (i.e. computer science etc.) applied to product and data management.
You will specifically work closely with their portfolio companies on the following:
- Product and Business Analysis- Identify and unlock opportunities in key growth areas of focus, including user acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, international, and mobile growth.
- Product Growth and Experimentation- Partner with product, design and engineering to design, build and implement experiments that test hypotheses informed by data
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience with product optimization or growth methodologies.
- Consistent track record in using quantitative analysis to drive product and/or business decisions.
- Experience supporting senior team members and contributing to multiple product visions.
- Preferably a quantitative engineering background (computer science, engineering, economics, finance).
- Strong communication and presentation abilities. Comfortable communicating, discussing, and debating insights with leaders within the start-ups.
- You’ve worked in a start-up or, even better, have started your own business.
- You have a demonstrable passion for Africa, technology and entrepreneurship.
- You’re a people person, capable of identifying, nurturing and amplifying the potential in others.
- You’re an excellent communicator and are fluent in English, with bonus points if you also speak French or Portuguese.
- You are always learning and constantly challenging yourself and others around you to be better.
All applications close on 30th June, 2021.
About The Baobab Network:
The Baobab Network is an accelerator program that seeks to invest in the next generation of African tech entrepreneurs. They invest USD$25,000 into early-stage tech ventures across Africa and provide founders with a global platform to scale their business.
The organization seeks the boldest tech entrepreneurs in Africa with the intention of helping them grow and scale up their businesses. They build strategic partnerships with investors and corporates across the world, many of whom have already backed some of the world’s biggest technology companies. To add value to their people they provide industry-leading insights and data to keep their partners informed on key market developments and trends.
