Product Manager at PayU

About the job

• 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).
• 3 - 5 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.