Korapay is a payment infrastructure servicing a wide band of businesses making local and international payments. We are a marketplace for digital financial services across Africa. Our vision, which is at the core of what we do every day, is to create a world void of digital financial barriers across Africa. We are committed to delivering reliable, secure, and easy-to-use digital financial solutions to every single customer with a guarantee that it is improving their lives.
We are hiring for:
Job Title: Senior Product Manager.
Location: Lagos.
Employment Type: Full Time.
Department: Product Management.
About the Role
- We are looking for a senior product manager to join our growing product management team at Kora. We are seeking a senior product manager to lead our pay-in and payout products.
- As the Product Manager for Pay-ins, you’ll be responsible for optimizing the current payment methods we support and building new ways for our merchants to accept payments.
- As the Product Manager for Payouts, you’ll be responsible for optimizing and improving the current payout channel we support while building new channels in other countries we are expanding to.
- Product managers at Kora own the end-to-end problem they are trying to solve with their team. As the Senior Product Manager for either Payouts or Pay-ins, you will develop and execute the product strategy that enables seamless payment experiences for our users.
- This role is a unique opportunity to impact how global and local businesses accept payments from customers all over Africa.
What you’ll be doing
- Strive to deeply understand user needs by conducting user research and identifying opportunities and pain points. And advocate for user needs through the cycle of building products.
- Define, document, and drive roadmaps, project plans, and precise product specifications that consistently deliver quality products for your customers.
- Work with a team of engineers and designers to discover solutions to customer pain points and build and launch products for local and global businesses.
- Define and drive roadmaps, project plans, and precise product specifications that consistently deliver quality products.
- Ensure successful product launches by working cross-functionally with marketing, merchant success, sales, operations, legal, and compliance teams.
Reporting Relationships & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Report to the Head of Product working as part of the Product Management team.
- Working collaboratively with our Product Management, Engineering, Product Design, Business, Compliance, and IT Team to ensure each feature/product is delivered effectively and with the highest quality.
- Strong working relationships with the managing team, directors, and team leads around the business.
What you’ll need
- 4+ years of experience in product management with demonstrated experience in successfully building and shipping impactful products.
- Experience building payment solutions in the fintech industry.
- Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- You have a good understanding of how software is built and operated and experience in building technical software products.
- Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs.
- Excellent ability to bring clarity and focus to complex and ambiguous situations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate and lead teams: Product roles bring responsibility without direct authority. We’re looking for leaders who can motivate and earn the trust of stakeholders and teams with a collaborative approach.
- Curiosity and drive.
- Great attention to detail and cares about building quality products.
- Experience working with both qualitative customer insights and quantitative data to inform decisions. You’ve conducted user research and a/b tests and have worked closely with product analysts.
Application Closing Date
Unspecified.