Product Manager at PayU

The Product Manager is a pivotal PayU leadership role, offering a unique opportunity to take part in shaping and driving PayU’s offering. You will play a key role in implementing our long-term strategy, product roadmap, feature set, and market success for our solutions.

Who you are:

• If you are passionate about building groundbreaking products, delivering delightful experiences, understanding needs of customers, execution obsessed, highly analytical, a team player, and are only satisfied when work has an impact ...we'd love to hear about it.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the platform vision and roadmap
• Deeply understand our customer’s needs and challenges
• Write specifications for new and updated epics and user stories.
• Approve the development results (UAT)
• Document and communicate newly released features to stakeholders
• Align and communicate with internal stakeholders (sales, compliance, legal, product managers, etc)
• Work closely with development team
• Gather feedback from customers, partners and stakeholders
• Good understanding of local payment market – Africa (South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and ROA)
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and players.

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in IT or Commerce).
• 2-3 years’ experience working as a Product Manager or Business Analyst.
• Payments/Banking/Financial Services experience preferred.
• Experience in Africa – Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
• Experience working with Development teams using agile methodology.
• Experience within web, online and ecommerce/payments systems preferred.
• Exposure into the Africa Landscape.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Career progression program
• Wellbeing programs
• Flexible program and hybrid way of working
• Free subscription to an Internal Elearning platform with courses from Udemy, Coursera, and many others
• Truly International Environment with almost 40 different cultures
• An inclusive environment that listens to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
• A positive, get-things-done workplace
• A dynamic, constantly evolving space (change is par for the course – important you are comfortable with this)
• Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale
• A democratic work environment where you can drive your outcomes