About the Role

We are looking for a Commercial Director who will lead a critical role, charting our path towards future growth towards first and the largest low cost fully integrated physical and digital model for primary care.
Our dream ideal candidate is thinks big, is analytical, collaborative, with strong commercial awareness. You are a leader, but ready to roll up your sleeves and work... alongside our team. You have strong communication skills and experience leading both internal and external project implementation and scale up.

Responsibilities
Commercial Strategy

Take ownership of key initiatives to drive revenue and growth including pricing and sales architecture for our digital and SaaS offerings.
Develop existing commercial channels across business lines including our mDaktari virtual clinic. 
Understand requirements of existing and potential customers to ensure their needs are met.
Lead Growth, Customer Engagement and Finance teams.
Oversee strategic client relationships, understand and manage customer insights, across all strategic customer types.

Fundraising and Financial Management

Work with the executive team and board; develop and deliver the company’s growth financing strategy including a mix of debt, equity and grant capital to fund the company’s growth.
Work with the CEO to develop strategy, financial targets and raise capital for growth, including financial presentations to existing and potential funders.
Manage our financial department, currently one company accountant and two separate financial entities. Manage (and improve!) our financial policies and reporting.
Present financial insights to the Board and CEO, including maintaining financial models, and using them to make strategic business decisions.

Qualifications and Relevant Experience

Background at top management consulting firm and/or experience at a high growth start up.
Strong financial management experience and demonstrated experience in financial planning and analysis.
Experience in raising or being on a team that has raised capital for social ventures or other startups.
Strong communicator with an ability to partner with a young, diverse team. more

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product designer and platform engineers in translating product designs into functional and usable product features.
Write readable and testable code inline with company-wide coding style configured in linters.
Write automated tests for all code written with good coverage percentage. Improve coverage over time for code with less coverage
Ensure new features... are continuously shipped. Automate this over time with appropriate CI/ CD tooling.
Monitor deployed product for errors and act appropriately to make sure all deployed features are not crashing in production. Fix errors in production as soon as they are identified.
Collaborate with platform engineers to make sure platform services meet product needs.
Participate in weekly brainstorming sessions focused on improving business services, product and engineering.

Job Specifications/ Qualifications

B.Sc. Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics, or related experience in Software Engineering
Experience writing JavaScript and TypeScript
Experience working with GraphQL and RESTful APIs
Experience building applications in React using custom tooling for SPAs or related SSR frameworks.
Experience using application state management tools (redux preferred) or alternative but performant approaches.
Experience building Progressive Web Apps in React and implementation of related caching strategies as needed for various features of the app.
Experience build API in REST or GraphQL (preferred)
Growth mindset. See challenges as learning opportunities and have a can-do attitude more

Responsibilities

Collaboratively design and implement a stable and efficient data platform for data analysis and machine learning
Build and deploy data platform infrastructure apps and machine learning algorithms,
Build services for data access in client apps,
Ensure availability of data and platform services,
Collaborate with other product engineers to make sure platform services meet... product needs
Participate in weekly brainstorming sessions focused on improving business services, product and engineering

Job Specifications/ Qualifications

B.Sc. Computer Science or related role in Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics,
Experience writing Java/ Scala and Python
Experience working with SQL Databases and Document Databases e.g. MongoDB
Experience working with data at scale using Kafka, MapReduce, Solr, Pig, Spark
Growth mindset. See challenges as learning opportunities and have a can-do attitude more