Product Manager - Payments
Kuda Technologies Ltd, Nigeria
Job Description
Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable, and rewarding for every African on the planet. We're a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love, so it's only right that we ended up with the name 'Kuda,' which means 'love' in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa. We're giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering payment solutions, smart budgeting, and instant access to credit through digital devices. We've raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we're rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.
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
Benefits
Why join Kuda?
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- Pension
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Group life insurance
- Health insurance
- Lamp;D training
- We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
Kuda are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.
We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.