Gothenburg, Sweden · Remote OK
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Ed…
Skills: Product management, Product strategy, Strategic planning, Data analysis, Lean startup methodology
Gothenburg, Sweden · Remote OK
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Ed…
Skills: Communications strategy, Team leadership, Editorial management, Content strategy, Media relations
Dar es-Salaam, Coastal Zone, Tanzania · Hybrid
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Ed…
Skills: Strategic planning, Program management, Team leadership, Data analysis, Budget management
United States · Remote OK
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Ed…
Skills: Relationship Management, Portfolio Development, Fundraising, Strategic Communication, Network Mapping
Dar es-Salaam, Coastal Zone, Tanzania · Hybrid
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Ed…
Skills: Monitoring and Evaluation, Learning Strategy, Theory of Change, Stakeholder Management, Partnership Coordination
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda · Remote OK
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Ed…
Skills: Network Mapping, Donor Prospecting, Relationship Management, CRM Management, Strategic Communication
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda · On-site
Who We Are! 🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Ed…
Skills: Product Strategy, Learning Experience Design, Team Management, Data Analysis, User Research
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The Product Director will lead the strategic direction and scaling of the SIFA AI-powered coaching product from MVP to a multi-million user platform. They are responsible for managing cross-functional teams, driving evidence-based decision-making, and overseeing the product's financial and impact performance.
Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in product management or leadership, with a proven track record of scaling complex products. Strong analytical skills, experience with lean methodologies, and the ability to manage senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams are essential.
🌍 Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined.
At Educate! we're obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent.
Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by:
To date, more than 500,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa.
Educate! is a team of over 300 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We prioritize building an engaging, fulfilling and growth oriented work environment. 50% of our top 30 leaders have been with us for over 5 years, 10+ alumni have started their own organizations, and 6 current or former team members were Acumen Fund East Africa fellows.
We have been backed by top foundations such as Imaginable Futures, Livelihood Impact Fund, Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, CIFF and Echidna Giving. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize and a 2015 WISE Award, and has been highlighted by the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, BBC, The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies on scaling education, and the Gates Foundation as a Goalkeepers Accelerator. In 2022, we received a catalytic investment from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott to scale our systems change work.
Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
We know that incredible candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply!
We’re looking for passionate individuals who believe in our mission and can bring unique perspectives to our team—not just those who check every box. We value diversity and strongly encourage women and individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
At Educate!, we create and deliver learning experiences reshaping what youth employment looks like across Africa — building products that reach hundreds of thousands of young people in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. As Product Director for SIFA, you will set strategic direction across a complex, high-ambition digital product, leveraging impact through Product Leads, cross-product coordination, and a high-performing team of designers, engineers, coaching experts, and product associates.
SIFA is Educate!'s AI-powered business coaching product, delivered digitally to help out-of-school youth micro-entrepreneurs make profit visible, strengthen cashflow discipline, and reduce capital trapped in customer credit. It is the product with the clearest ambition to become the digital backbone of the entire Educate! portfolio — scalable, data-generating, and increasingly intelligent with every cohort it runs. The Product Director joining now steps into a product that has moved from concept to MVP, has generated its first real evidence of impact, and is now navigating the most consequential strategic decisions in its lifecycle: how to go from 1,200 youth to 20,000, and then to scale the product to millions of youth.
This role demands more than oversight of a well-run team. You will weigh external research, evaluation findings, and experimental results to guide high-stakes trade-offs under genuine uncertainty. You will own the investment case, resolve cross-product and cross-functional trade-offs, and influence business unit priorities through the quality of your product strategy — operating within the strategic direction set by the business unit leader while exercising real strategic authority within that frame.
The decisions you make here carry very high irreversibility. Investment memo recommendations, stage-gate calls, and portfolio positioning choices for SIFA materially affect Educate!'s digital strategy for years. This role is for a product leader who understands what it means to hold that kind of accountability and who can build a team culture where evidence quality, learning rigour, and strategic coherence are non-negotiable.
For an experienced product leader who wants to operate with a high degree of ownership, build a strong team, and work in a genuinely mission-driven environment, this role offers the chance to do your most impactful work.
This role sits at the most consequential inflection point in SIFA's lifecycle. The product has moved from concept to MVP and generated its first credible evidence of impact — and the Product Director joining now will determine whether that evidence holds at scale, and whether SIFA becomes the digital backbone of Educate!'s portfolio or remains a promising pilot. Within this role's tenure, SIFA is accountable for the following outcomes:
Application Process: Rolling basis, interviews happening soon!
We’re ambitious. Are you? Educate! is growing fast, so new opportunities are opening up and expanding all the time. We’re inspired by people with drive, and we love to help them reach their full potential. We expect everyone at Educate! to contribute above and beyond their job description, grow their skills, and advance their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey of their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey.
Every person at Educate! — from interns to the executive director — is evaluated by how they live up to these five cultural tenets. They are at the core of how we achieve our mission and why we work as well as we do. Educate is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all who interact in our community. In creating this environment, we encourage people from a variety of cultures, backgrounds and life experiences to join our diverse team.
We’re committed to ensuring all candidates are screened for child and youth safety. As part of the process, candidates must successfully complete our standard background verification and safeguarding review in accordance with local legal standards. Educate! reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment if any screening results indicate potential risks to youth.
Preparing youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy
Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Educate!, we're obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent. We aspire to become the largest youth employment organization in the world. Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by: 1) introducing an employment-focused school subject in secondary education, and 2) delivering livelihood bootcamps for young people unable to access secondary education, with a focus on girls and young women in rural communities Our work has been validated by several independent evaluations, which found positive outcomes on income, employment, gender equity, family planning and sexual and reproductive health, educational attainment, and climate change resilience. To date, more than 600,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa. Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
Offices: Kampala, UG
Preparing youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy
Africa has the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. By 2035, the continent is poised to contribute more young people to the global workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. At Educate!, we're obsessed with impact. We leverage iterative learning to build highly scalable youth employment solutions aimed at unlocking the potential of the world’s youngest continent. We aspire to become the largest youth employment organization in the world. Educate! prepares youth in Africa to learn, earn and thrive in today’s economy by: 1) introducing an employment-focused school subject in secondary education, and 2) delivering livelihood bootcamps for young people unable to access secondary education, with a focus on girls and young women in rural communities Our work has been validated by several independent evaluations, which found positive outcomes on income, employment, gender equity, family planning and sexual and reproductive health, educational attainment, and climate change resilience. To date, more than 600,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and along the way, Educate! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa. Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.
Offices: Kampala, UG
