Mwangi Kiprotich

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Group Product Manager at Rivet HQ · Logistics · operations, supply chain

Rivet HQ
Kigali, Rwanda · CAT (UTC+2)
9+ years experience
Lagos Business School
English, Kinyarwanda, French
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Based in Kigali. I lead logistics at Rivet HQ. Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 14 days to 3. Before that: Access Bank and Google. Most at home with supply chain and last-mile delivery.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on logistics
  • Questions about logistics
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on activation
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Crypto token projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
activationroutinglast-mile deliverySQLsupply chainoperations
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 5 weeks

Office hours for engineers moving into product: logistics and activation

Topics
logistics, routing, activation
Format
Calls
Terms
Equity
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

14 years of logistics. One call a month or async reviews.

Kigali, Rwandaactivationoperationsrouting
Open

Experience

  1. Group Product Manager
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Rivet HQ · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Took logistics activation from 31% to 54% in three quarters.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 11 days to 2.
    • Ran 162 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  2. Senior Product Manager
    Jun 2023 - May 2025
    Access Bank · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Took logistics activation from 23% to 55% in three quarters.
  3. Product Manager
    Dec 2021 - Jun 2023
    Google · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Grew logistics revenue from $5 million to $45 million ARR.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
    Naspers · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Launched the logistics product in 3 markets.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 16 days to 4.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
    Microsoft · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kigali, Rwanda
    • Grew logistics revenue from $6 million to $17 million ARR.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from logistics
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling logistics.

Write-up: logistics in practice
2022

A long-form guide to logistics for people starting out.

References

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Education

  1. Lagos Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2014 - 2016
  2. University of Nairobi
    BSc, Business Administration
    2007 - 2011

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