Product Manager - Payments at Kuda Bank

Role Overview

We're in search of a Product Manager to join our Payments Platform team which powers both the Kuda Retail and Kuda Business apps. The ideal product manager would be a visionary who has a good understanding of different modes of payments present in Nigeria, continuously researches the market finds new opportunities guides new payment product ideas from an initial concept to a full-blown product launch. Along the way, you will be collaborating with world-class engineers to maximize Kuda's impact on the world.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the development process to achieve the planned objectives of the payments platform.
• Liaise with stakeholders and other teams to ensure that the development is aligned with customer feedback.
• Employ product management techniques to keep the scope, time, and cost of the development in check.
• Work with the engineering teams as a product expert.
• Comprehend payment product challenges and innovate solutions for achieving development objectives with greater efficiency.
• Work on company-defined aspects of the project and meet forecasted development goals.
• Manage and build payment data pipelines for seamless flow of payment information across connected systems.
• Work closely with product teams as a subject matter expert who can answer questions raised by the technical/developer community.
• Coordinate the quality assurance processes.
• Be comfortable with database queries to measure performance KPIs and evaluate payment experiments.
• Define payment product success criteria vis-a-vis testing and post-launch sequences.
• Constantly innovate on the payment product roadmap, managing product sprints cycles, and feature releases.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience with SQL.
• A high level of understanding in regard to product management processes and workflows.
• An ability to discuss technical issues and solutions with software engineers.
• Experience working with a product or engineering team within the banking or fintech industries working on a payments product.
• Ability to properly document user stories, and functional and technical requirement documentation.
• Advanced level experience with project and document management tools such as Notion and Jira.
• A high-level understanding of the software development process, particularly in the context of payment solutions