Product Manager

Job Description

About Nomba :

Nomba is a leading payments company with a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage their financial transactions and affairs. We provide innovative, secure, and user-friendly solutions that enable businesses to streamline their payment processes, optimize their financial operations, and grow their businesses with confidence.

Our Mission and Vision is to build a cashless Africa.

We're building tools and infrastructure to help businesses start, run and scale their business from anywhere in Nigeria. That's where you come in : we're looking for product managers to join our Product team to manage 3rd party technical integrations. This helps accelerate the growth of businesses and in turn enables them to grow their business with us.

This role is a unique mix of technical product development, business, strategy, and execution, all in the name of helping businesses grow. You will identify and prioritise various growth levers, including :

a) Leading the team towards integrations with API providers

b) Diagnosing problems with existing integrations to identify areas for improvement

c) Identifying ways to ensure efficient routing of transactions to optimise reliability and cost

d) Drive the adoption of new features / providers added

You will push boundaries, trying anything and everything that helps drive long-term success for the credit product and the businesses we serve.

The right candidate will have extensive experience of working within a technical product manager setting and should be able to demonstrate a strong track record of managing technical integrations and API builds.

About the Role

Manage product lifecycle; gathering and prioritising customer requirements, defining product vision and working closely with necessary stakeholders to deliver winning products.

Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to establish technical integration patterns and adequately liaise between technical and business stakeholders

Manage the process from conceptualisation, design, prototyping, development, testing, business, support, product launch and post deployment analytics.

Maintain and manage the product roadmap owning and writing the relevant PRDs for all features.

Identify and meticulously track key success metrics for product features.

Have a clear plan for product operations : the achievement of growth

Create an avenue to receive input from product stakeholders ensuring their input is a key influence in product development.

Drive product launch alongside marketing team and other product management team members.

Gain deep understanding of customer experience in a bid to identify and fill product gaps that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive business growth.

Partner with the Legal and Compliance teams to ensure the products developed are compliant with relevant regulations.

Requirements

A technical background or computer science / software engineering degree or equivalent work experience in a technical product development and management setting.

Ideally an engineer who has transitioned to product development

Strong Agile SCRUM experience

At least 2yrs Experience working in the Financial Technology Industry.

Proven track record of working with sales, designers, engineers and various stakeholders to coordinate, plan, execute and track product releases.

Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products.

A self-starter who works well both collaboratively as an individual contributor.

Exceptional communication (written and oral) and presentation skills.

Empathy, and a genuine desire to solve our customer’s problems.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without enforcing authority.

The Process :

• First level call with the Product Lead and HR Team.
• Assessment.
• Final call with the CTO and Product Lead.

Requirements

A technical background or computer science / software engineering degree or equivalent work experience in a technical product development and management setting. Ideally an engineer who has transitioned to product development Strong Agile SCRUM experience At least 2yrs Experience working in the Financial Technology Industry. Proven track record of working with sales, designers, engineers and various stakeholders to coordinate, plan, execute and track product releases. Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products. A self-starter who works well both collaboratively as an individual contributor. Exceptional communication (written and oral) and presentation skills. Empathy, and a genuine desire to solve our customer’s problems. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without enforcing authority. The Process : - First level call with the Product Lead and HR Team. - Assessment. - Final call with the CTO and Product Lead.