Product Manager (Fintech/Consumer Product)

Lagos, Lagos State
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago

About the job Product Manager (Fintech/Consumer Product)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. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.Role OverviewOur client is looking for Product Managers that have built technical products or large-scale platforms, are excited about genuinely understanding the problem space, and love experimenting with the best solutions for users.You should be comfortable dealing with a variety of moving parts, pay exquisite attention to detail and take delight in learning about the payment landscape, new systems, processes and technologies specifically as it relates to consumer-facing products.As the Product Manager for our client, you'll be responsible for driving product innovation that'll be targeted and helping out merchants start and scale their businesses. You'll be the voice of the customer and will help build and maintain delightfully successful products that solve their users' pain points.They believe that more ideas mean more great ideas, and as a Product Manager at our client, you'll ideally be paired with Product Designers, Engineers, and other Product Managers who have a track record of successfully building large-scale products that are adding value to millions of users around the world!Our client's team is small but highly accomplished, so your voice will be heard and your ideas will make meaningful contributions to the business.Job Type: PermanentLocation: Lagos, NigeriaWork Place: HybridRequirements

Computer science, software engineering or data science experience
3+ years experience building and managing technical software products
Based in Nigeria and has a good knowledge of the consumer-product market
Clear and empathetic communicator both verbally and in your writing
Motivated by the opportunity to improve the lives of our users
Have a deep and unrelenting customer focus
Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
Can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid, manageable tasks and action plans
Do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, no matter how big or small the issue may be, whether that means writing a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user's frustration
Creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, analytics, marketing, design and sales
Obsessed about continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, Medium and large releases beyond just shipping new products
Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions
Have excellent organisation skills to ensure that your team is focused and operating efficiently
Experience with working on a financial services platform
Created or worked in a startup before
Worked as a software developer

Responsibilities

Draw out feedback from our users on their experience with using our existing products
Align teams on a shared vision and steer the company towards the execution of that vision
Drive the decision-making process across all the aspects of product development (strategy, design, Technology, launch)
Define, monitor and analyze metrics to guide product improvements
Create and own the roadmap; prioritise initiatives according to aggregate needs, with defensible reasoning that aligns stakeholders and energizes the design and engineering teams
Monitor and communicate updates on product priorities to internal and external stakeholders
Document ideas and plans; be the face of the product working directly with partners and our users
Work with our external partners to deliver solutions that will solve problems for our users
Drive progress across product initiatives by removing blockers from the team and going the extra mile to ensure that the product objectives are met
Represent our client in high value negotiations at industry events
Make several decisions daily on the best path to success for our product objectives

Benefits

Competitive salary
Full medical coverage
Hybrid working environment
MacBook Pro
Free lunch
Leadership in a growing financial institution.
Smart, kind colleagues who're invested in your growth

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