IT Product Manager at AB Microfinance Bank

Job Description:

Strategic leadership to drive and support business growth and revenues, development and deployment of technology for all stakeholders, acceleration of product/service delivery, innovation and implementation of technology solutions at optimized costs.

Role description:

• Actively contribute to developing the company’s strategy for using technological resources, aligned to business goals
• Prepare businesses to react, adapt and evolve with resilience and success.
• Ensure the organization is on an ‘always future-ready’ technology mode.
• Strong domain knowledge and business acumen to ensure company’s technologies are used appropriately.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
• Prioritize opportunity area that can be solved given the organizational capacity and feasibility.
• Create product concepts to achieve the goal of business solutions for our customers.
• Refine, validate and identify top product concepts using available data.
• Rapidly test and iterate identified product concept among users.
• Create prototypes of the successfully tested product concepts.
• Translate insights into a product strategy from driving consensus internally, design, engineering, operations, forging required partnerships, and developing success metrics.
• Work with operations subject matter experts and use a broad range of sources to develop innovative functionality.
• Design processes, workflows, and functional components to improve efficiency.
• Work with designers, developers (both locally and remotely) and subject matter experts to get project requirements well scoped, designed and built.
• Map out talent requirement for the product.
• Closely cooperate with internal teams such as business operations and sales, e-channels to launch the product.
• Establish product delivery timelines in close collaboration with internal teams and keep stakeholders updated on.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, systems and infrastructure for competitive advantage in the current, dynamic digital finance ecosystem in Nigeria.
• Manage all technology assets with the right teams to ensure optimum return of investment using the ITIL framework — including availability, quality, performance, capacity management, financial management, change management, risk management, incident and problem management and license management.  
• Build payments landscape, upgrade plan /roadmap to support business growth and innovation.

Necessary experience, skills, knowledge and Technical Proficiency:

• Minimum educational qualification: B.Sc. / HND in any related discipline with cognate experience
• 7+ years of proven experience as a product manager, Developer, IT infrastructure systems engineer or similar leadership role, preferably in Fintech, Banking, or software development industry.
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy.
• Understanding of budgets and business-planning would be an additional asset.