Overview

PayU is a leading financial services provider in global growth markets. We deliver innovative technology that enables billions of people and millions of merchants to buy and sell online. Our local operations span 17 markets across Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. As a leading online payment service provider, we deploy more than 300 payment methods and PCI certified platforms to process approximately 1.2 million payments every single day. We also specialise in innovative consumer and small business products that improve access to credit and banking services in markets that are underserved by traditional financial services providers.

Job Position: Product Manager

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

  1. The Product Manager is a pivotal PayU leadership role, offering a unique opportunity to take part in shaping and driving PayU’s offering.
  2. 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.

Job Responsibilities

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

Job Requirements

  • 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

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

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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