What I do
Senior product strategy, discovery, specifications, cross-functional delivery, M-PESA integrations
Senior Product Manager & Builder - Nairobi - Remote-first
Brian Chirchir builds trusted fintech, SaaS, AI, and civic tech products for 1M+ users.
I turn constraints into products people trust. Across M-PESA, PAYGO solar, civic tech, edtech, and enterprise platforms, I lead discovery, product strategy, technical specification, delivery, and stakeholder alignment for teams working across East Africa and global remote markets.
Open to senior product roles - consulting engagements - remote-first across time zones
Where I thrive
Remote teams solving hard problems in fintech, edtech, civic tech, and enterprise
Home base
Nairobi, Kenya, collaborating with teams across East Africa, Europe, and the US
Right now
Building BizFramer (ILO SIYB SaaS) and WealthTrack (personal finance PWA) under Civanta.io
7
products built, managed, or specified across high-trust domains
8+
years building products across fintech, civic tech, and enterprise
1M+
users directly impacted through platforms, services, and field programs
30+
countries worked across through research, delivery, and partnerships
Built for and alongside
Safaricom
M-PESA
Unilever
FCDO
EY
Davis & Shirtliff
PREO
TRANSFORM
CMU-Africa
ILO SIYB
Products
Built around real constraints.
01
Fintech · Clean Energy · IoT
LivePaygo Solution
A Pay-As-You-Go digital financing platform that lets Kenyan smallholder farmers access solar water pumps through M-PESA micro-payments. Jointly developed with Davis & Shirtliff, whose distribution network spans 50+ branches and 700+ stockists across East Africa, and funded by PREO.
02
B2B · FMCG · Credit
Pilot completedDuka+
A digital ordering and credit platform for small informal shops, known as dukas, that form the backbone of last-mile retail in sub-Saharan Africa. Funded by TRANSFORM, a joint initiative between Unilever, FCDO, and EY, it connects micro-retailers directly to Unilever and Upfield distribution with a flexible credit line and same-day green delivery through Skoot.
03
Fintech · PWA · AI
Live betaWealthTrack
A personal finance Progressive Web App for East African users who transact primarily through M-PESA. It parses mobile money statements, auto-categorises transactions using an AI taxonomy built for East African money movement, and surfaces net worth across mobile money, bank accounts, and cash.
04
Civic Tech · Security
Spec delivered · Pending developmentSANK e-Election Platform
A secure digital voting platform for the Sweden Alumni Network Kenya, a community of roughly 200 members. It handles candidate nominations, voter eligibility verification, secret ballot casting, and result tabulation in a single integrated system designed so trust is the architecture, not an afterthought.
05
EdTech · B2B · HCD
In developmentBDS Mentorship Platform
A Business Development Services mentorship platform for the Institute of Certified SIYB Trainers Kenya. It connects certified trainers with aspiring entrepreneurs through structured mentorship programmes, group facilitation sessions, and trainee progress tracking, digitising a process that had been informal and undocumented.
06
SaaS · EdTech · AI
LiveBizFramer
An AI-guided business plan builder that transforms the ILO Start and Improve Your Business methodology into a structured digital experience. The methodology is active in 100+ countries through thousands of certified trainers, and BizFramer is built under Civanta.io.
07
AI · Agile · Developer Tools
Live betaYodaAI
An AI-powered co-facilitator for agile retrospectives. It guides teams through structured 4Ls retrospectives, Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For, with intelligent prompts, cross-sprint pattern recognition, and automated follow-up grounded in PMI Disciplined Agile best practices.
Thinking
Lessons worth sharing.
Essays and frameworks from 8+ years of building in fintech, civic tech, clean energy, and entrepreneurship training.
What I bring
Your product problem
deserves someone who has shipped under pressure.
I bring 8+ years of building across M-PESA, IoT, SaaS, and civic tech in markets where constraints are real, trust is earned, and there's no room for features that don't solve problems. If you're looking for a product person who can move from whiteboard to shipped code and take your team along, I'd like to hear what you're working on.