Product Manager

Product Manager

 

This business is a financial technology organisation making it easy for organizations to pay anyone, anytime, anywhere in the emerging markets.

Paying people in poverty-stricken regions of the world has always proven to be a challenge. My client’s technology has made it easy, being the central hub of facilitating payments across Africa and Asia through an integrated platform with support for both corporate payments and social programs. Their payment technology is helping refugees restart their lives in Europe, helping villages rebuild after Ebola in Liberia, and supporting gig economy workers in East Africa, among many other applications.

In many of the countries this business work in, people do not have bank accounts, so the digital mobile money services they provide have become a vital part of their financial ecosystem. Their payments platform provides a web app and developer API to send money - \ to mobile money networks in 11 countries and counting across Africa. Their team combines talented engineering with expertise in emerging-markets payments. This includes the co-founders along with early technical leaders behind the IBM SmartCloud, Facebook’s internationalization team, and Google’s search query monetization and Palantir’s expansion into commercial work. Investment is led by a well-known multi billionaire American businessman alongside a team of savvy technology entrepreneurs.

 

The Role

As a Product Manager here, you’II work closely with stakeholders across the team to prioritize, spec and build new products and features. As they look to expand their offering to new payment modalities, countries and use cases, they’re looking to bring someone on board who can work with an exceptional engineering team to deliver products and features that people around the world rely on and help them build momentum with new customers.

This role requires a solid technical background and attention to detail, as they provide API services to multinational organizations that rely on them to deliver payments on time. They will look to you to collaborate with engineering on API design, execute reliably, and show sound judgement to improve and maintain their platform, along with implementing smooth processes for their team as they grow.

You'll be joining a team that’s passionate about mission and technology and helping to build products that they’re all proud of.

 

What you’ll be doing

• Work closely with their Head of Product to develop roadmaps and prioritize features
• Collaborate with Engineering, Sales, Deployment and Operations to gather requirements and write detailed specification documents for the team
• Create wireframes and mocks to help specify User Experience requirements for the engineering team
• Talk directly with clients to understand their businesses and use of our service to develop insight, formulate recommendations, and help prioritize features
• Keep everyone on the same page through quality documentation and timely communication
• Help keep team process running smoothly by leading issue triage and sprint planning

 

Requirements

• 4-year bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical major
• 2 years’ experience in product management or as a tech lead, writing specs for complex features and systems
• Strong written and spoken communication skills
• Good strategic thinking and product intuition
• Project management experience
• Ability to analyze quantitative data and use it to inform decision making

 

Ideally you also

• Are motivated by our mission and want to work on something with significant impact on the world
• Are enthusiastic about collaborating with others on a small team ina fast-paced environment
• Take and give feedback well
• Have digital payments experience
• Have experience managing an API product
• Can write SQL queries and a script or two in a pinch
• Can whip up mocks on a whiteboard or in Sketch to help explain ideas visually Have travelled to and would like to travel to countries in the developing world

If you’d like to know more about this role or to submit your CV, please get in touch: aaron.crosbie@ashmorestark.com +442071000975