Product Manager at Korapay

About The Role

We are looking for a Product Manager to join our growing Product Management team at Kora. Product Managers at Kora own the end-to-end problem they are trying to solve with their team. As a Product Manager at Kora, you will execute a 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.

Here’s 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

• 2+ years of experience in product management, with demonstrated experience in successfully building and shipping impactful products
• You have a good understanding of how software is built and operated and experience in building technical software products
• Excellent ability to bring clarity and focus to complex and ambiguous situations
• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs
• Strong 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.
• Project Management skills - Previous experience seeing projects through from beginning to end and owning the entire process;
• Curiosity and drive
• Great attention to detail and cares about building quality products