Our client is a US non-profit funder-doer that builds projects to expand human agency at scale. They embed engineers and product managers directly inside evidence-based nonprofits across East Africa, South Asia, and beyond, helping them build data infrastructure, run experiments, and scale impact through automation and product thinking. Their small, global team combines expertise in software, AI, social psychology, and development economics, and their community of 200+ partner organizations reaches millions of people annually.

Our client is growing its technical team to meet accelerating demand from its portfolio and is hiring a Technical Product Manager to work at the heart of its accelerator. Embedded with 3–4 NGO partners at a time, you will lead product engagements end-to-end and help shape how the organization delivers at scale. This is a senior, delivery-focused role, split roughly 50/50 between partner-facing and internal-facing work.

Responsibilities:

• Partner engagement (50%): Act as the primary interface with 3–4 NGO partners at any given time, building trust, scoping collaborations, and surfacing pain points through structured discovery
• Translate partner needs into roadmaps and provide technical advisory on product, data, evaluation, and experimentation
• Report back on learnings from partner work, trace patterns across different organizations, and help release lessons learned in public goods that benefit the wider sector
• Product & engineering execution (50%): Build dashboards, data pipelines, AI evaluations and production integrations; analyze data to extract trends, run A/B tests and perform user research
• Define and drive product roadmaps across our client's tools, translating complex partner workflows into clear engineering requirements and running agile sprints with the engineering team
• Ship critical features and own the full loop from partner need to shipped product to feedback
• Team and talent (ongoing): Coach partner organization staff, help upskill their technical and leadership skills, and help them hire for critical roles
• Coach and mentor Lighthouse Fellows on how to navigate nonprofit partners, run structured engagements, and operate effectively in a resource-constrained environment
• Contribute to our client's internal playbook by documenting what works, codifying engagement frameworks, and building institutional knowledge

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Have 5+ years of experience in technical product management, solutions engineering, or tech consulting — ideally with both client/consumer-facing and engineering-facing responsibilities
• Have shipped AI/LLM product features, data pipelines or warehouses, and production APIs — not just managed people who did, but actually built alongside them
• Can read and write SQL, navigate a codebase, build data pipelines and dashboards
• Have demonstrated experience using quantitative and qualitative methods to define problem statements and measure effectiveness for causal inference (A/B tests etc.) or predictive analytics
• Can design a study, interpret the results, and present them to a non-technical programme director
• Are fluent in agile: sprints, backlog grooming, estimation and retrospectives, and can run these processes well in a small team
• Can demonstrate experience managing competing stakeholder needs across engineers, behavioral scientists, and NGO programme teams — without formal authority over any of them
• Bonus: Experience with global development data stacks such as ODK, DHIS2, Kobo, Metabase, dbt, or similar
• Bonus: Familiarity with the evidence-based development ecosystem — J-PAL, IPA, IDinsight, or similar RCT/MEL contexts
• Bonus: Proven experience scaling products with data-driven approaches
• Bonus: Exposure to GenAI product development — evaluation frameworks, prompt engineering and LLM integrations
• Bonus: A meaningful track record in a low-resource, mission-driven, or Tech for International Development context

If you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to ljoubert@caglobalint.com  

Please visit www.caglobalint.com for more exciting opportunities.

Lara Joubert

Specialist Recruitment Specialist

CA Finance

CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.

Job Description:

Our client is a US non-profit funder-doer that builds projects to expand human agency at scale. They embed engineers and product managers directly inside evidence-based nonprofits across East Africa, South Asia, and beyond, helping them build data infrastructure, run experiments, and scale impact through automation and product thinking.

Our client is looking for an AI Data Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI/ML data systems that power our client's platforms and partner applications, from large language model integrations and recommendation engines to data pipelines and evaluation frameworks. The role will directly contribute to improving outcomes for people served by NGO partners.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build AI/ML evaluations and features for our client’s technology platforms and partners, including LLMs, NLP and recommendation systems.
• Develop robust data pipelines and evaluation frameworks for model training, inference and post-deployment efficacy.
• Work closely with behavioral scientists and researchers to translate insights into AI-powered features.
• Architect and maintain production ML systems with an emphasis on observability, performance, reliability and scalability.
• Conduct rapid prototyping and experimentation to validate AI approaches before full buildout.
• Document technical decisions and maintain engineering standards across AI components.
• Stay current with applied AI research and bring relevant advances to the team.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• 3–7 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML systems.
• Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and HuggingFace.
• Experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
• Strong understanding of ML fundamentals, including model training, evaluation, fine-tuning and inference optimisation.
• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP or Azure, with experience deploying models in production.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-engineering audiences.
• A strong commitment to building AI responsibly and with direct social benefit.
• Experience with multilingual NLP or working with low-resource languages.
• Familiarity with behavioral science or designing AI for behavior change.
• Prior work in global health, international development or social impact technology.
• Experience with data annotation pipelines and evaluation methodology for LLMs.
• Background in AI safety, alignment or responsible AI frameworks.

If you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to ljoubert@caglobalint.com  

Please visit www.caglobalint.com for more exciting opportunities.

Lara Joubert

Senior Recruitment Specialist

CA Global | Finance

CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.