Senior Product Manager
Lagos, Nigeria
GPO EMEA – GPO EMEA - Product /
Full-time /
Hybrid
The Product Manager is a pivotal PayU leadership role, offering a unique opportunity to take part in shaping and driving PayU’s offering. You will play a key role in implementing our long-term strategy, product roadmap, feature set, and market success for our solutions.
Who you are:
If you are passionate about building groundbreaking products, delivering delightful experiences, understanding needs of customers, execution obsessed, highly analytical, a team player, and are only satisfied when work has an impact ...we'd love to hear about it.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contribute to the platform vision and roadmap
- Deeply understand our customer’s needs and challenges
- Write specifications for new and updated epics and user stories.
- Approve the development results (UAT)
- Document and communicate newly released features to stakeholders
- Align and communicate with internal stakeholders (sales, compliance, legal, product managers, etc)
- Work closely with development team
- Gather feedback from customers, partners and stakeholders
- Good understanding of local payment market – Africa (South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and ROA)
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and players.
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in IT or Commerce).
- 2-3 years’ experience working as a Product Manager or Business Analyst.
- Payments/Banking/Financial Services experience preferred.
- Experience in Africa – Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
- Experience working with Development teams using agile methodology.
- Experience within web, online and ecommerce/payments systems preferred.
- Exposure into the Africa Landscape.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Career progression program
- Wellbeing programs
- Flexible program and hybrid way of working
- Free subscription to an Internal Elearning platform with courses from Udemy, Coursera, and many others
- Truly International Environment with almost 40 different cultures
- An inclusive environment that listens to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
- A positive, get-things-done workplace
- A dynamic, constantly evolving space (change is par for the course – important you are comfortable with this)
- Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale
- A democratic work environment where you can drive your outcomes
