Senior Product Manager, Payments

• We want to make B2B payments as simple as P2P payment apps. Most business payments in Africa are made offline….yikes. We are on a mission to transform this.
• We are backed by top investors including Point Nine,Tribe Capital, Commerce Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, My Asia VC, Soma Capital, YCombinator, Oui Capital, and others.
• This is a unique opportunity. You'll have the responsibility and resources to take a significant part in the creation of a paradigm-changing product that will impact millions.

Responsibilities:

• Translate platform vision into a product roadmap that balances customer needs with internal resources
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define a compelling and feasible product vision for our platform strategy execution
• Own and execute end-to-end technical product partnerships with financial institutions to leverage payment rails
• Be a resident domain expert in one or more of product capabilities and functions/features
• Communicate progress against the roadmap, product performance across the cross-functional team as well as throughout the organization and growth opportunities
• Refine product vision based on feedback from end users, support teams, and other internal and external stakeholders
• Track product effectiveness and continually work toward a tangible and sustained value proposition
• Build, manage and launch various APIs, including API-based products and services
• Responsible for the developer experience and overall responsibility for creating and maintaining API Tooling, Developer Portal, and documentation for our users
• Work with marketing team to develop a marketing plan for the APIs
• Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Work closely with the business leads to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Provide technical pre-sales support to the sales team

Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• A computer science, software engineering or quantitative educational background.
• MBA is an added advantage
• Experience with different aspects of payment provider integrations: payment processing, card acquirers, online banking, alternative payment methods
• 5+ years experience building and managing technical software products
• Experience managing large-scale platforms or building APIs.
• Excellent project management skills.
• An excellent understanding of agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, analytical and time management skills.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams.