EXP Product Strategist , Uganda - Internal

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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 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: Introducing an employment-focused school subject into secondary and Delivering livelihood boot camps for out-of-school youth, with a focus on marginalized rural girls and young women. 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. Good to note: To Our Awesome Applicants! 🚀💫 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. Position Overview 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 a Product Strategist, you will own a product or priority feature end to end - its strategy, its learning agenda, its design quality, and the team that makes it happen. The Educate! Experience is Educate!'s most mature product, impacting 36,000 youth annually and serving as a critical R&D lab for the entire organization. As the Product Lead, you will own the end-to-end product strategy and the learning agenda required to sustain impact at scale. This senior role demands an evidence-driven approach to navigate the complex trade-offs inherent in a large-scale delivery model, ensuring the product continues to evolve as a rigorous and impactful solution. You will manage a team of designers and/or product associate(s), run stage retreats, and navigate a rich stakeholder landscape - from youth and frontline teams to impact unit leaders and senior leadership. You will work in close partnership with a senior product leader and business unit leader, and across functional leaders in design, metrics, and implementation. You will have the mandate to build something rigorous, evidence-based, and deeply connected to the people you are designing for. Expected Impact Uphold product quality in Educate!'s most mature product by maintaining a coherent product strategy and LX design to consistently measurably impact 36,000 youth Contribute to a constructive and healthy team culture in the wider EXP impact unit and frontline teams by advancing co-creation, effective collaboration and simplified product design Produce credible and actionable insights on agency/growth mindset interventions through well-executed experiments and continuous discovery Maintain a strong product team in EXP and facilitate growth for designers, training experts and product associate. Lead with evidence informed proposals for the future of EXP. What You'll Do 🌟 Develop and execute EXP Product Strategy to measurably impact 36,000 youth annually Lead the process of developing EXP's stage strategy - generating the evidence, analysis, and options that inform the investment memo and enable well-grounded Investment Committee decisions - within the strategic direction and priorities set by the business unit leader; maintain critical strategy artefacts that keep the team and leadership aligned Lead stage retreats and quarterly planning cycles, surfacing key strategic issues, tr

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