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  • Posted: Dec 12, 2019
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Africa has millions of payments everyday day, but very few happen online. In Nigeria, just about 1% of transactions happen online. There are many barriers businesses have to face to accept payments online and that’s what Paystack is fixing. We're making progress. We've simplified the previously difficult customer experience, reduced integration time...
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    Senior Product Manager

    About the Senior Product Manager Role

    We are looking for Product Leaders that have led technical products or large-scale platforms, are excited about genuinely understanding the problem space and love experimenting with the best solutions for users; you should be comfortable dealing with a variety of moving parts, pay exquisite attention to detail and take delight in learning about the payment landscape, new systems, processes and technologies.

    As a Senior Product Manager at Paystack, you’ll be responsible for leading teams that build APIs, platforms, and interfaces for our users. You’ll get to work closely with our customers, external partners and internal teams to conceptualize, build and maintain delightfully successful products that solve our users' pain points.

    We believe that more ideas mean more great ideas, and as a Senior Product Manager at Paystack, you'll ideally be paired with Product Designers, Engineers and other Product Managers who have a track record of successfully building large-scale products that are adding value to millions of users around the world!
    Our team is small but highly accomplished, so your voice will be heard and your ideas will make meaningful contributions to the business.
     
    This is a full-time role based in Paystack’s headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
    What you'll be doing

    You'll:

    • draw out feedback from our users on their experience with using our existing products
    • align teams on a shared vision and steer the company towards the execution of that vision
    • drive the decision-making process across all the aspects of product development (strategy, design, technology, launch)
    • define, monitor and analyze metrics to guide product improvements
    • create and own the roadmap; prioritise initiatives according to aggregate needs, with defensible reasoning that aligns stakeholders and energizes the design and engineering teams
    • monitor and communicate updates on product priorities to internal and external stakeholders
    • document ideas and plans; be the face of the product working directly with partners and our users
    • work with our external partners to deliver solutions that will solve problems for our users
    • drive progress across product initiatives by removing blockers from the team and going the extra mile to ensure that the product objectives are met
    • represent Paystack in high value negotiations at industry events
    • make several decisions daily on the best path to success for our product objectives

    What it takes to succeed in the role

    You:

    • are a clear and empathetic communicator both verbally and in your writing
    • are motivated by the opportunity to improve the lives of our users
    • have a deep and unrelenting customer focus
    • thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
    • can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid, manageable tasks and action plans
    • do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, no matter how big or small the issue may be, whether that means writing a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration
    • are a creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, analytics, marketing, design and sales
    • obsess about continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium and large releases beyond just shipping new products
    • take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions
    • have excellent organisation skills to ensure that your team is focused and operating efficiently

    Required skills:

    • A computer science, software engineering or data science experience
    • 3+ years experience building and managing technical software products
    • Experience managing large scale platforms or building APIs

    While this isn't a requirement, it'll be a plus if you have:

    • Experience with working on a financial services platform
    • Created or worked in a startup before
    • Prior experience with leading a team
    • Worked as a software developer

    Benefits

    • Competitive salary
    • Housing assistance
    • Full medical coverage
    • MacBook Pro
    • Gym membership
    • Free lunch
    • Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Paystack on boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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