A community for African product managers
ProductCraft Africa is the home for payments, fintech and platform PMs across the continent — and the place where talent from Lagos, Nairobi and Cape Town gets hired in London, Dublin and Berlin.
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About
The problem
African product managers solve harder problems with thinner tooling than most of their global peers — yet referrals, certifications and the unwritten rules of FAANG and fintech hiring stay locked behind passport queues and conference badges.
Our response
Cohort-based programmes, mentorship from operators inside Stripe, Wise and Paystack, and a live placements network. We don't sell courses — we move careers.
Programmes
All cohorts are remote-first. Most are free for verified members; the Career Accelerator is paid.
Led by Ayobami Osho
Monthly · open to all
Matched in 7 days
12-week intensive
Impact
Placements wall
Co-founders
Founder · Lead instructor
Payments Product Lead, Paysend (UK)
Currently shipping payments products at Paysend in London. Previously product at Moniepoint, where he helped scale agency banking infrastructure across Nigeria. Author of Constraint-First PLG — the framework now taught inside Wise, Stripe and three African neobanks.
Leads the Payments PM Series, ProductCraft's flagship cohort.
Co-founder · Community
Ex-Flutterwave. Leads partnerships, events and the placements pipeline into European fintech.
Co-founder · Programmes
Ex-Andela, Microsoft. Designs cohort curricula and runs the mentor network across Lagos, Nairobi and Accra.
Members
"The Payments PM Series rebuilt how I think about ledgers. Six weeks after the cohort I had a Wise offer in hand."
Tolu Adebayo
Senior PM, Wise · London
"ProductCraft's mentor network is the only reason I knew what a Series-B PM interview at a payments company actually looks like."
Kehinde Mensah
Product Manager, Paystack · Cape Town
"Ayobami's Constraint-First framework went straight into our roadmap doc. Then it went straight into my interview answers."
Zola Nkosi
PM, Stripe · Dublin
Upcoming
In partnership with PM Africa
Writing
The redesign was beautiful. The metrics moved the wrong way. Six months later we shipped a uglier, simpler version that worked. The story of the gap between those two versions is the most useful thing I know about product judgement.
Sade Bakare · August 19, 2025
Read essay →Six years as a backend engineer. Then I made the switch to product. Most of the advice on the internet about this transition is wrong, or at least incomplete. Here is what actually worked.
Daniel Mwangi · June 24, 2025
Read essay →I have run more than three hundred PM interview loops in the last four years. The patterns that separate the strong candidates from the strong-on-paper candidates are not the ones the prep guides talk about.
Ireti Sanusi · May 13, 2025
Read essay →Join
Membership is free for verified African-based or African-diaspora product managers. Applications are reviewed weekly.
Cohorts that ship
Average member completes the Payments PM Series in 8 weeks with a portfolio piece reviewed by a Stripe or Wise PM.
A real placements pipeline
412 international placements and counting. We open the door; you walk through it.
No fluff, no gurus
Operators teach. The framework is whatever shipped revenue last quarter.