Product Manager at Nomba (Formerly Kudi)

Location: Lekki, Lagos

Job Description

• We're building tools and infrastructure to help businesses start, run and scale their business from anywhere in Nigeria. That's where you come in: we're looking for product managers to join our Product team to drive and own out our credit product and design custom credit offerings for businesses across different verticals.
• This helps accelerate the growth of businesses and in turn, enables them to grow their business with us.
• This role is a unique mix of product, business, strategy, and execution, all in the name of helping businesses grow. You will identify and prioritize various growth levers, including:
  • Development of new features
  • Optimizing existing features
  • Experimentation to drive acquisition/retention
• You will push boundaries, trying anything and everything that helps drive long-term success for the credit product and the businesses we serve.

Job Responsibilities
About the Position:

• Manage product lifecycle; gathering and prioritising customer requirements, defining product vision and working closely with necessary stakeholders to deliver winning products.
• Manage the process from conceptualisation, design, prototyping, development, testing, business, support, product launch and post-deployment analytics.
• Maintain and manage the product roadmap owning and writing the relevant PRDs for all features.
• Identify and meticulously track key success metrics for product features.
• Have a clear plan for product operations: the achievement of growth objectives including market share, revenue, profit and return on investment for all the channels/categories of business and/or key customers.
• Identify new areas for growth through customer research and development.
• Create an avenue to receive input from product stakeholders ensuring their input is a key Influence in product development.
• Drive product launch alongside marketing team and other product management team members.
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience in a bid to identify and fill product gaps that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive business growth.
• Work with third party Lenders to craft amazing credit products for our customers.
• Partner with the Legal and Compliance teams to ensure the products developed are compliant with relevant regulations.

Requirements
About You:

• A technical Degree or equivalent work experience in product development and management.
• At least 2 years of experience working in the Financial Technology Industry.
• Proven track record of working with sales, designers, engineers and various stakeholders to coordinate, plan, execute and track product releases.
• Demonstrated success in defining and launching excellent products.
• A self-starter who works well both collaboratively as an individual contributor.
• Exceptional communication (written and oral) and presentation skills.
• Empathy, and a genuine desire to solve our customer’s problems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without enforcing authority.