Founders Associate

Nairobi (hybrid working) London or Paris (remote working)

About Us:

Amini is a dynamic, fast-growing deep tech startup. We are building environmental data infrastructure for Africa and the tropical belt. Amini is at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, utilizing Geospatial Data and AI / Machine Learning capabilities to solve environmental data scarcity for countries in the global south.

Our passion and energy for our mission are truly infectious. We envision Africa as a catalyst for global transformation by empowering our ecosystem through data and resolving the inequalities stemming from environmental data scarcity, we aim to foster opportunities for over 1 billion lives. At Amini, we empower our partners and customers to leverage artificial intelligence for innovation, growth, equality, and success.

Our core values of Collaboration, Trust, Integrity, Humility, and Passion are at the heart of everything we do.

Our team embodies inclusivity, diversity, agility, and dynamism. Comprising highly skilled experts, we recognize the transformational nature of our work while remaining humble, ego-free, and non-hierarchical. We believe in fully utilizing our skills and experiences, sharing ideas, and making a collective impact to drive change and positively influence the AI industry and billions of lives.

The Role:

Working alongside Our Founder / CEO primarily and sometimes our COO, playing a pivotal role in both strategic and operational aspects of our company.

You will work closely with CEO, supporting the daily work, and contributing to the strategic direction of the company. This includes participating in high-level discussions, managing projects and ensuring that our long-term goals are met. Your work will directly impact the company's growth and overall success.

You will help to bring the founder’s ideas and vision to fruition. Acting as a sounding board and trusted thought partner, providing valuable feedback and insights to help refine and improve upon the CEO’s vision.

The type of work you will be doing:

• Strategic Goals Facilitating the strategic planning process, including road mapping and undertaking regular progress updates and reporting this to the CEO and Exec Team
• Projects Monitoring and enabling companywide projects, ensuring bottlenecks are removed, issues are brought to the CEO / COO’s attention at the appropriate time and working with colleagues to solve problems and keep everything moving and on track
• Brand Amplification : Preparing all materials for customer meetings, conferences and CEO’s presenting commitments
• Business Development - Managing sales prospects on behalf of the CEO, helping to prepare for customer meetings,, attending meeting and ensuring all of the actions are captured and managing these actions with colleagues on behalf of the CEO. Identify and showcase successful customer use cases on social media
• Communication: Act as a bridge between the CEO and other team members, ensuring clear and effective communication. Prepare reports, presentations, and briefings for executive meetings
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including investors, partners, and clients. Represent the CEO when necessary and handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
• Impact Planning : Develop and implement a comprehensive sustainability and ESG strategy that aligns with Amini's overall goals and objectives
• Comms & Branding : Working with the CEO and Marketing to develop our overall brand strategy, ensuring it aligns with long-term business objectives and growth targets. Define and communicate the brand’s core values, positioning, and unique selling proposition (USP) to ensure clarity and consistency
• Investors : Preparing investor update reports and help manage investor relations and helping to prepare for funding rounds

What you will need:

• A curious and low-ego person with a customer-centric mindset, eager to tackle unprecedented challenges and excited by our mission
• The ideal candidate is a pragmatic generalist focused on shipping features quickly and obsessed with understanding and meeting customer needs
• Agile and super flexible to thrive, the projects and your to do list will change Week-to-week, which is super exciting and fun
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (MBA or advanced degree preferred). and a track record of personal, academic and professional achievements
• Strong understanding of technology trends
• Resourceful problem solver with a can- do attitude
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• A proactive and adaptable mindset
• Discretion and the ability to handle confidential information
• Entrepreneurial mindset and can effectively work in an independent, structured and goal-oriented manner
• You have a high degree of comfort with analytics, numbers and the capability to draw decisions based on both intuition and data

Additional Information

This is a hybrid role, ideally based Nairobi (hybrid working) or London or Paris (remote working)

Why Join Amini?

• Be part of a ground breaking AI start-up at the forefront of innovation
• Be instrumental in a truly transformational mission, positively impacting billions of lives
• Our people and team Culture – it really is special. Work in a non-hierarchical, open, positive environment, where egos are left at the door and people are happy to come to work
• Collaborate and learn with a highly skilled, talented, and inclusive team of professionals
• Massive opportunity for career growth and development
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Make a meaningful impact on the future of AI technology
• Remote and hybrid working opportunities
• Laptop and all necessary technology tools provided for effective remote working

Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.

If you're a collaborative, resourceful professional with a wealth of experience in this field, a passion for working alongside truly exceptional individuals and our core values resonate with you, we invite you to apply and join us in shaping the future of AI!