Product Manager
Product Manager
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Job Description
Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable envied and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline manage their operations and grow their business. The team is driven by excellence innovation and customer satisfaction.
Role Overview
Our client is looking for Product Managers who have built technical products or large-scale platforms at multi-country/global scale are excited to deeply understand problem spaces and love experimenting to find the best solutions for users.
Youre comfortable juggling many moving parts obsessing over details and taking delight in the payments landscape systems processes and technologies across multiple countries (consumer-facing and merchant products).
As a Product Manager youll drive product innovation that helps merchants launch and scale in multiple markets acting as the voice of the customer and building delightfully successful products that solve real pain points. Youll work with Product Designers Engineers and other PMs who have a track record of shipping large-scale products serving millions of users across Africa and globally. The team is small and highly accomplished your ideas will be heard and will move the business.
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Lagos Nigeria
Workplace: Hybrid
Requirements
Background in computer science software engineering or data science (or equivalent experience).
5 years building and managing technical software products including end-to-end launches across multiple countries/regions.
Proven experience in payments across markets: local payment methods multi-currency FX/settlement reconciliation taxes/invoicing PCI KYC/AML data privacy and varied regulatory environments.
Based in Nigeria with strong knowledge of African and global consumer/merchant markets; comfortable working across time zones.
Clear empathetic communicatorverbally and in writing.
Deep and unrelenting customer focus; motivated to improve users lives.
Thrive in collaborative environments with diverse stakeholders and subject-matter experts.
Can turn incomplete or conflicting inputs into solid actionable plans.
Will do what it takes to make the product and team successful (from writing a QA plan to tracing the root cause of a user issue).
Creative product thinker; partners well with engineering analytics marketing design and sales.
Obsessed with continuous improvement: can optimize a portfolio of small/medium/large releases not just net-new launches.
Evidence-based data-driven decision-maker with excellent organization and prioritization skills.
Internationalization/localization (i18n/l10n) and pricing/packaging by market experience.
Nice to Have
Experience on a financial services/payments platform operating in multiple regions.
Track record in cross-border payments global acquiring and partnerships with banks/PSPs/networks.
Startup experience or prior role as a software developer.
Exposure to risk/fraud compliance tooling or ML-driven decisioning.
Responsibilities
Drive continuous discovery with merchants across key African markets and selected global regions; synthesize insights into clear problems and opportunities.
Align teams on a shared vision; own a multi-country roadmap and sequence rollouts by impact readiness and regulatory complexity.
Lead product decisions across strategy design and technology from inception to launch and iterations.
Define monitor and analyze metrics (including geo-segmented KPIs) to guide improvements and run experiments across markets.
Own go-to-market for new countries/regions: localization payment methods multi-currency pricing/billing tax compliance and support readiness.
Work with legal/compliance on market-specific regulations (KYC/AML/PCI/privacy) and ensure launch readiness.
Build and manage external partnerships (banks PSPs card schemes wallets) to unlock regional capabilities.
Document product decisions and plans; serve as the face of the product with partners and users.
Remove blockers drive delivery and communicate progress to internal and external stakeholders.
Represent our client at industry events and negotiations with high-value partners.
Employment Type
Full Time
