Product Manager

Minimum requirements:

- Bachelors Degree (preferably in IT-related, Marketing or Commerce)

- MBA (preferred)

- 5+ years experience working as a Product Manager, or Product Owner

- Experience working with Development teams using agile methodology

- Exposure into the Africa landscape preferred

- A passion for technology and the large picture of how it can impact the continent

- A passion for inclusion in technology and how language can facilitate that

- Leadership capacity

- Strategic thinking

- User empathy

- Superb articulation and communication capabilities

- Customer-facing experience

- Experience in a Technology Company

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the product vision and roadmap

- Deeply understand our customers needs and challenges

- Explore and analyse the competition globally to build product strategy

- Create epics and user stories for new products and enhancements to existing products

- Approve the product readiness prior to launch (UAT)

- Document and communicate newly released features to stakeholders and provide training where required

- Align and communicate with internal stakeholders, partners, and providers

- Coordinate product releases with marketing, sales, operations, and development team

- Gather feedback from customers, partners, and stakeholders

- Understand the African payment market

- Stay up to date with industry trends and players

Originally posted on Himalayas