Product Manager; Payments at Klasha

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the integration of new payment methods across multiple countries on our gateway.
• Work with external payment providers and card networks to drive cost efficiency and optimise payment solutions.
• Partner with legal, network compliance, regulatory and risk stakeholders to effectively manage risks and confirm compliance.
• Analyse projections and forecasts and come up with opportunities to move the metrics and influence strategy.
• The ability to work around existing external infrastructure bottlenecks and country outages is key.
• Analyse and leverage data across various signal sources to drive decision-making ex: Posthog, UXcam, Appsflyer, Firebase, Google Analytics and others.
• Understanding app release trajectories and how to leverage them to continuously achieve double-digit growth on a monthly basis.
• Be very comfortable running user research, prototyping, and other product discovery work to build the right product for our users. Our potential customer base in Nigeria boasts a huge variance in terms of user needs, behaviours, and characteristics.
• Assist in growth initiatives alongside our marketing, content, and engineering teams.
• Drive product launches including working with the marketing team and other product management team members.
• Understand your product’s P&L and drive it as you deem fit.
• Deliver value and impact, regardless of tools and processes. PMs at Klasha are not a ticketing system for engineering but someone who owns their responsibilities and leads teams to solid outcomes.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in any business-related course, computer science, engineering, or equivalent preferred.
• Solid understanding of local and cross-border payment landscape.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience managing B2B SaaS-based products and services, particularly payment products.
• Have built and grown a successful payment gateway before.
• Ability to read and understand payment APIs and workflows, experience gathering business requirements and turning them into detailed technical requirements.
• Solid understanding of the local and global payment regulatory landscape.
• Ability to prioritise and work independently as well as in a team environment
• Automation savvy, with proficiency in analytics and wider tooling.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to identify and defend data-driven recommendations.
• High level of determination and tenacity.

Benefits

Our people are the heart of the business, so we prioritise welfare and offer a wide range of competitive benefits including but not limited to:

• All the latest technology you need to do your role.
• Employee stock option scheme.
• Private health insurance.
• Mental health wellness benefits
• Budget for French language classes.
• Hybrid; remote + office hours and flexible working conditions.
• Diesel and wifi allowance for remote working.
• Work-from-anywhere weeks; work from anywhere for three weeks in a year.
• Paid birthday day off.
• Team building events.
• Paid parental leave.
• Learning and development budget