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At Emata, we have a brilliant and driven team of developers, product managers, and data scientists.
With us, you get the freedom and responsibility to innovate and create work that makes you stand out.
We continuously invest in your personal development through training and certifications, in addition to offering health insurance, salary loans, flexible "Work from home"- policy, offsites, daily lunches in our office garden, and excellent games of table tennis.
Benefits include
Friendly, hard-working team of professionals
Investment in your professional & personal development
Health insurance, employee shareholder plan, salary loans
Flexible hours and vacation
Open positions
📍 Mbarara, Uganda
Do you get satisfaction from a clean repayment schedule and loans that land in a farmer's account within minutes? We're looking for a Portfolio Associate to keep our dairy loans flowing and our portfolio healthy across Southwest Uganda.
About Emata
We are a fast-growing Ugandan fintech transforming agricultural finance. Since launching in 2021, we have served 60,000+ farmers and partnered with 100+ agri companies and cooperatives, including several of the continent’s most renowned agri company players. We blend AI, technology, and deep industry expertise to deliver world-class lending products tailored for farmers.
- Products: Digital loans, crop insurance, digital payments
- Team: 20+ engineers, data scientists, product & business
- Culture perks: cappuccinos from farmers we lend to, freedom to learn & innovate, flexible remote days, and more.
At our core, we value teamwork over titles, critical thinking over copying, ownership of outcomes, fast learning, and integrity without compromise.
What you’ll do
You'll be the engine behind our Dairy Southwest portfolio – making sure money goes out fast, comes back on time, and every farmer keeps their loan limit growing. Specifically:
- Keep loans flowing: set up loan products, run KYC and CRB checks, make pre-disbursement calls, and get most loans disbursed within 15 minutes
- Protect portfolio quality: keep PAR within target, chase on-time repayments, and reconcile every shilling against the repayment schedule
- Spot trouble early: flag repayment issues before they grow and work them through with clients and farmers
- Grow our lendables: drive MIS usage and keep farmer data clean and complete
- Keep insurance tidy: make sure cover is in place where relevant and claims are settled without delay
- Support launches & partners: help prepare (re)launches in the field, and keep partnership reporting and status overviews up to date
You might be the one if you are...
- Detail-obsessed and comfortable with numbers, schedules, and reconciliation
- Proactive – you chase the issue, you don't wait for it
- Confident on the phone and in the field with farmers and partners
- A team player who takes ownership of outcomes
- Fluent in Runyankole and English
What we offer
A unique opportunity to build your career in an award-winning, venture-capital-backed startup that's reshaping how African farmers access finance. Competitive package, health insurance, employee shareholder plan, salary loans, and a friendly, hard-working team.
Ready to have real impact? Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis – don’t wait!
📍 Kampala, Uganda
We're looking for a product person to work alongside our CPO across the full product cycle — from talking to farmers and partners, to shaping features, to getting them built, tested, and out the door.
You'll sit close to the marketing and branding side of the house, so we especially want someone who understands how people hear about a product, decide to trust it, and start using it. This is a genuine product manager role at a junior level: you'll learn the craft on the job and grow fast.
About Emata
We are a fast-growing Ugandan fintech transforming agricultural finance. Since launching in 2021, we have served 60,000+ farmers and partnered with 100+ agri companies and cooperatives, including several of the continent’s most renowned agri company players. We blend AI, technology, and deep industry expertise to deliver world-class lending products tailored for farmers.
- Products: Digital loans, crop insurance, digital payments
- Team: 20+ engineers, data scientists, product & business
- Culture perks: cappuccinos from farmers we lend to, freedom to learn & innovate, flexible remote days, and more.
At our core, we value teamwork over titles, critical thinking over copying, ownership of outcomes, fast learning, and integrity without compromise.
What you’ll do
- Get out and talk to farmers, field agents and agri-company partners — dig for what they actually need, not what we assume from behind a desk
- Turn that raw insight into clear product requirements the team can build from
- Team up daily with our product, AI and engineering colleagues to move features from sketch to launch
- Own the last mile: shape how we position and roll out new features so farmers don't just get them, they actually use them
- Put new features through their paces before they ship — test them, break them, and make sure they work in the field, not just on the screen
- Chase down the story in the data: spot what's landing, what's tripping people up, and what to fix next
- Keep the product backlog orderly and help the CPO prioritise
What we're looking for
- 3–5 years of experience, ideally with a marketing or branding background and a real pull toward tech and product
- Comfortable with technology — you pick up new tools quickly and enjoy figuring out how things work
- Good with ambiguity — you can take a fuzzy problem, make sense of it, and move it forward without waiting for perfect instructions
- Conceptual thinker — you see the bigger picture and can connect the dots between farmer needs, product, and business
- Strong communicator — you write clearly and explain an idea simply, whether you're talking to a farmer, an engineer, or a partner
- Organised, self-driven, and happy in a small team where roles stretch
- A genuine interest in agriculture, financial inclusion, or East African markets
Nice to have
- Exposure to fintech, agri-tech, or working with rural or underserved customers
- Hands-on experience with product tools, no-code builders, analytics dashboards, or running campaigns
Ready to have real impact? Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis – don’t wait!
📍 Kampala, Uganda
We're looking for a product person to work alongside our CPO across the full product cycle — from talking to farmers and partners, to shaping features, to getting them built, tested, and out the door.
You'll sit close to the marketing and branding side of the house, so we especially want someone who understands how people hear about a product, decide to trust it, and start using it. This is a genuine product manager role at a junior level: you'll learn the craft on the job and grow fast.
About Emata
We are a fast-growing Ugandan fintech transforming agricultural finance. Since launching in 2021, we have served 60,000+ farmers and partnered with 100+ agri companies and cooperatives, including several of the continent’s most renowned agri company players. We blend AI, technology, and deep industry expertise to deliver world-class lending products tailored for farmers.
- Products: Digital loans, crop insurance, digital payments
- Team: 20+ engineers, data scientists, product & business
- Culture perks: cappuccinos from farmers we lend to, freedom to learn & innovate, flexible remote days, and more.
At our core, we value teamwork over titles, critical thinking over copying, ownership of outcomes, fast learning, and integrity without compromise.
What you’ll do
- Get out and talk to farmers, field agents and agri-company partners — dig for what they actually need, not what we assume from behind a desk
- Turn that raw insight into clear product requirements the team can build from
- Team up daily with our product, AI and engineering colleagues to move features from sketch to launch
- Own the last mile: shape how we position and roll out new features so farmers don't just get them, they actually use them
- Put new features through their paces before they ship — test them, break them, and make sure they work in the field, not just on the screen
- Chase down the story in the data: spot what's landing, what's tripping people up, and what to fix next
- Keep the product backlog orderly and help the CPO prioritise
What we're looking for
- 3–5 years of experience, ideally with a marketing or branding background and a real pull toward tech and product
- Comfortable with technology — you pick up new tools quickly and enjoy figuring out how things work
- Good with ambiguity — you can take a fuzzy problem, make sense of it, and move it forward without waiting for perfect instructions
- Conceptual thinker — you see the bigger picture and can connect the dots between farmer needs, product, and business
- Strong communicator — you write clearly and explain an idea simply, whether you're talking to a farmer, an engineer, or a partner
- Organised, self-driven, and happy in a small team where roles stretch
- A genuine interest in agriculture, financial inclusion, or East African markets
Nice to have
- Exposure to fintech, agri-tech, or working with rural or underserved customers
- Hands-on experience with product tools, no-code builders, analytics dashboards, or running campaigns
Ready to have real impact? Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis – don’t wait!
Can’t find a role that fits but feel you belong at Emata?
We’d love to hear from you: Open Applications
We review open applications regularly and reach out when there’s a match.
Offices
Emata is a licensed Microfinance Institution. Visit us at our offices in Kampala and Mbarara for a glass of milk and a demo.
Call us: +256 (0) 741 445 718