About Sand

Sand Technologies is a fast-growing enterprise AI product company that solves real-world problems for large blue-chip companies and governments worldwide.

We’re pioneers of meaningful AI: our solutions go far beyond chatbots. We are using data and AI to solve the world’s biggest issues in telecommunications, sustainable water management, energy, healthcare, climate change, smart cities, and other areas that have a real impact on the world. For example, our AI systems help to manage the water supply for the entire city of London. We created the AI algorithms that enabled the 7th largest telecommunications company in the world to plan its network in 300 cities in record time. And we built a digital healthcare system that enables 30m people in a country to get world-class healthcare despite a shortage of doctors.

We’ve grown our revenues by over 500% in the last 12 months while winning prestigious scientific and industry awards for our cutting-edge technology. We’re underpinned by over 300 engineers and scientists working across Africa, Europe, the UK and the US.

About the Role

Sand Technologies is building a unified health operating system for Africa. Many of our most important countries use French as the working language and have distinct cultural and operational contexts. We need a Product Manager who understands these realities and can bridge them with our product teams.

This role sits between our healthcare product squads and our francophone markets. You will spend time on the ground across West and Central Africa. You will learn how operators, health workers and ministries use our tools. You will translate those insights into clear product requirements. You will shape roadmaps with the product owners for partnerships, operations, intelligence and platform. You will help us build products that work for francophone Africa at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Understanding. Build a deep understanding of how our products are used across francophone countries. Conduct field visits with operators and ministries. Capture the practical and cultural details that influence adoption.
• Product Requirements. Translate country needs into clear requirements that can be used by product owners across partnerships, operations, intelligence and platform. Make sure these requirements speak to real user behaviour.
• Roadmap Contribution. Work with product owners to bring francophone market needs into the shared roadmaps. Help prioritise features that unlock adoption across multiple countries.
• Customer Engagement. Act as a trusted product counterpart for francophone ministries, partners and operators. Support discovery sessions, demos and feedback loops.
• Cross Team Coordination. Work closely with engineering, design, data and country teams. Make sure everyone has the context to build for these markets.
• Quality and Consistency. Ensure that product decisions stay aligned with our core architecture, design standards and long term direction. Promote reusability across countries.
• Field Validation. Test products in real settings. Collect structured feedback. Make sure launches address the realities of language and context across francophone Africa.

Experience and Qualifications

• 4 to 6 years of experience in product management or product discovery roles.
• Native or fluent French speaker with strong English.
• Experience working in francophone Africa across health, tech or public sector environments.
• Strong user research skills and comfort working on the ground with operators, health workers or government teams.
• Ability to turn qualitative insights into clear structured product requirements.
• Experience working across multiple product squads in fast moving environments.
• Understanding of digital health systems or data platforms is an advantage.
• Proven experience as a Product Manager, with a track record of successfully bringing products to market in a dynamic environment
• Experience building B2C or B2B products
• Experience with African public sector and/or public services
• Ideally consulting experience
• Strong understanding of product management methodologies and tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical mindset and proficiency in data analysis
• Project management skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Expertise in agile development methodologies
• An inclination towards action and clarity
• Relevant undergraduate degree; MSc or PhD preferred

You will thrive in this role if you

• Enjoy working with people and understanding how they actually use tools.
• Can turn messy field insights into simple and actionable product inputs.
• Are able to move between detail and strategy.
• Care about building products that fit real contexts and not only ideal designs.
• Want to help shape a continent wide health operating system that works for everyone.