Yidnek Tamirat
Senior Product Manager — AI · Telecom · Digital Public Goods

Building products that
move continents.

12+ years turning complexity into impact — from AI-powered advisory platforms in rural Ethiopia to Safaricom's enterprise cloud infrastructure.

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About

I Build for the People at the Edge.

I'm Yidnek — a Senior Product Manager with over 12 years of experience building and scaling digital infrastructure across AI, telecom, agriculture, and employment ecosystems in emerging markets.

Tech as a bridge to close the digital divide.
AI Product Leadership0→1 Product LaunchesEmerging Market StrategyRegulatory DiplomacyLast-Mile Tech DeliveryDigital Public GoodsStakeholder AlignmentRAG & LLM Deployment

Experience

12+ Years

BSc Information Science, AAU

CGPA 3.83

Credentials

Africa PLA 2026CSPO

McKinsey Forward Fellow

Availability

Open · 2026

Remote & relocation considered

Trusted Across — NGO · Government · Big Tech
Safaricom/
Digital Green/
MoA Ethiopia/
Mastercard Foundation/
InfoMind Solutions
OPERATING IN
2 Countries
Ethiopia · Kenya
STAKEHOLDERS ALIGNED
Ministries · NGOs · Banks
C-Suite to field level
LANGUAGES
English · Amharic
Professional fluency
Impact in numbers

Outcomes, not output.

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Farmers Reached
via AI-powered advisory platform
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0M+
AI Interactions
processed in the first year
03
0%
Cost Reduction
per-impact vs. human-led models
04
$0M+
ARR Generated
at Safaricom Ethiopia, Year 1
05
0M+
Active Candidates
on Ethiojobs platform
06
0+
Years of Experience
in AI, Telecom & Digital Products
Case Studies

Projects with Measurable Impact.

From AI platforms serving 200,000 farmers to building Ethiopia's first enterprise cloud portfolio.

Digital Green

Product Manager – AI & Digital Transformation

Scaled trusted AI advisory to 200K+ farmers while reducing advisory cost by 77%.

AIRAGAgritechEmerging Markets0→1
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Safaricom Ethiopia

Product Manager – Cloud Services & Connectivity

Created Ethiopia’s enterprise digital infrastructure market and generated $1.2M+ ARR in year one.

TelecomB2BCloud InfrastructureMarket Creation
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InfoMind Solutions

Senior Product & Growth Lead

Scaled Ethiopia’s largest talent marketplace to 1M+ candidates by improving how talent and employers connect.

MarketplaceHR-TechSearchProduct-Led GrowthTalent
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BeU Delivery

Product Strategy & Data Automation

Turned fragmented operational data into a real-time decision system, cutting support response time by 90%.

OperationsData AutomationAPI IntegrationAnalytics
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Experience

12 Years of Building.

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Led AI-enabled digital transformation in agriculture through scalable, farmer-centric platforms serving 200,000+ smallholder farmers nationwide.

Key Highlights

Led end-to-end strategy, launch, and scale of FarmerChat (AI-powered Ag-Advisory), reaching 200,000+ farmers within the first year

Improved farmer onboarding activation from 45% to 78% through data-driven acquisition and retention initiatives

Facilitated a 40-person Ministry of Agriculture workshop that pivoted national agricultural policy toward feedback-driven advisory

Managed cross-functional teams across engineering, AI research, field operations, and product

Achieved 77% reduction in cost-per-impact vs. traditional human-led models

Technologies

Generative AIRAGLLMsRLHFOffline-first ArchitecturePythonMixpanelFirebase

Education & Certifications

BSc, Information Science

Addis Ababa University

2009–2013 • CGPA 3.83

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

Mar 2026

McKinsey Forward Program

McKinsey & Company

Alumni

Africa Product Leadership Accelerator

PLA

2026 Cohort

Skills & Expertise

The Full Stack of Product Leadership.

Technical depth. Strategic breadth. Emerging market expertise.

Product Craft

0→1 Product LaunchRoadmap PrioritizationAgile / ScrumProduct-Led GrowthGTM StrategyUser ResearchA/B TestingOKR & KPI FrameworksProduct DiscoveryGo-to-Market ExecutionMarketplace LiquidityB2B Enterprise Strategy

Technical Domain

AI / LLMs / RAG / RLHFCloud InfrastructureAPI Integration & OrchestrationElasticsearchFiber / Layer 2–3 ConnectivityTier III Data CentersOffline-First ArchitectureNode.jsPythonPHPSystem ArchitectureReal-time Data Pipelines

Analytics & Growth

Product AnalyticsGrowth ExperimentationSEO / SEMConversion OptimizationRetention ModelingAdvanced SQLData VisualizationPerformance DashboardsCohort AnalysisFunnel Optimization

Leadership & Stakeholder

Regulatory DiplomacyMinistry-Level Stakeholder ManagementCross-Functional LeadershipCrisis ManagementEmerging Markets StrategyExecutive CommunicationVendor & Partner ManagementWorkshop FacilitationTeam BuildingStrategic Planning

Tools & Platforms

JiraConfluenceFigmaMixpanelGoogle AnalyticsPowerBIFirebaseAdvanced SQLElasticsearchPythonNode.jsNotion

Domain Expertise

AgritechTelecommunicationsHR-Tech & MarketplacesFintech & Mobile MoneyEdtechDigital Public GoodsEnterprise CloudOn-Demand Delivery

Let's Build Something That Matters.

I'm open to senior product leadership roles, fractional engagements, and strategic conversations about AI, digital infrastructure, and emerging market platforms.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · Open to remote & relocation
yidnektame@gmail.comDownload CVConnect on LinkedIn
(+251) 961 03 8281
(+251) 799 12 3401