About KOKO Networks
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,200+ employees across East Africa & India. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth. Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel; and (3) KOKO Club, a tech-enabled, direct-to-consumer, instant fulfillment retail platform operated in partnership with neighborhood retailers. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC.
Your Role
KOKO provides its customers with smart delivery of fuel and other products through its unique last mile distribution network, enabled by an ecosystem of proprietary integrated hardware and software products. As KOKO expands its reach to multiple countries, we are looking for an experienced Hardware Design Team Lead to provide technical ownership and leadership to a team of multidisciplinary engineers in the ongoing development of our IoT based hardware products that underpin the distribution activities.
Aside from being an expert in your core skills areas, you should be comfortable leading and coaching to shape the team's output as needed. You will act as an individual contributor/subject matter expert in either the mechanical, electronics or embedded software domains and have a working understanding of others in order to tie the product development process together smoothly.
