Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose - to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Product Manager
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Financial Services
Reports to: Senior Product Manager or Head of Product Management
Job Summary
- Product development activities at Paga fall within the Product Development group, which has distinct, full-stack (from a resource perspective) teams dedicated to a functional organization unit.
- For example, one of the functional teams in the Product Development team is the Agent Network Team, which is responsible for the development and delivery of products used by the large network of financial service delivery points (agents), across the countries where Paga exists.
- As a full-stack team, this team includes project management, product management, software and database engineering, quality assurance, and UI/UX/Product-Design resources. All teams execute product development using Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
- As a Product Manager at Paga, you will individually or jointly have ownership for the success of several specific products and/or features from the set of Products that Paga delivers to its external and internal customers.
This means:
- Driving strategic decision-making for the products/features within your purview and driving tactical decisions for them
- Overseeing the development of new products and features.
- Curating and growing existing products
- Generally delighting your customers (both internal and external)
At Paga, a product manager's role is both strategic and tactical. To be an effective product manager at Paga, you must:
- Have good customer/market empathy to drive a consumer-centric design ethos
- Have very strong critical thinking skills to be able to translate user needs into meaningful products in a variety of diverse use cases
- Have the ability to multitask and effectively prioritize a competing number of objectives simultaneously
- Be comfortable with rapid change and be willing to take ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment
- Be able to work well in a team comprised of multiple product development skills, including other product managers
- As a distributed product development team member, communication and collaboration are key. You will need to be excellent at utilizing remote communication tools and applying clear communication and collaboration practices to effectively engage with your “customers”, teammates, and other company stakeholders.
Primary Responsibilities
- Product development activities - Executing product-development activities (ideation, specification, design, development feedback, and post-deployment product curation) for specific products and features
- Market engagement - Engaging with end-users and the marketing team to refine product vision.
- Product curation - Continuously improving existing product offerings through both qualitative and quantitative analysis of product performance and product/market fit.
- Partner Engagement – Working effectively with industry/ecosystem partners to accomplish product goals
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- 3+ years of product management or similar product development experience
- Agile product development methodology experience.
Key Competencies:
- Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
- Excellent in team and cross-team collaboration skills
- Great verbal/written communication skills
- Highly observant with an attentiveness to detail
- Strong multi-tasking and self-management skills
- Curious, self-driven, and empathetic.