Product Lead (Financial Technology) at iRecruiters Africa Limited

Job Description

• The ideal candidate for this role will be expected to work closely with Internal Stakeholders, to drive product goals, and translate the product vision into technical terms while ensuring the product can compete in the market.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing the product lifecycle process to achieve the objectives of the product.
• Liaising with the Engineering and Merchant Acquiring teams to ensure that the Product development is aligned with the customer requirements.
• Developing and building the Product roadmap.
• Translating Product Strategy into detailed technical requirements.
• Research user needs and experience.
• Generating new ideas to fill product gaps and increase market share.
• Acting as the translator between business and technical community interpreting user needs and translating them into more technical language for the developers (and vice-versa).
• Lead the collaboration with stakeholders and partners to define the scope for projects and enhancements, document risks and assumptions, and develops the delivery approach, and timings.
• Prepare standard reports with appropriate illustrations in intuitive graphs, charts, and other visual representations.

Requirements

• A degree in Business Administration/Management, Economics, or any related discipline.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of experience as a Product Manager of which a minimum of three (3) must have been spent leading a team.
• Solid experience in technical documentation
• Proven experience of the full product management life circle
• Excellent Project Management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• An excellent understanding of Agile methodologies
• An excellent understanding of software development, APIs, and web technology
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, analytical, and time-management skills.
• Experience working within the Fintech or Banking sectors
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• BenefitsCompensation: Flexible budget to be based on quality of experience + other interesting benefits