Senior Product Manager at Yoco

Job Description
Yoco is looking for a senior product manager to help enhance our product offering to Yoco merchants, specifically looking at our Point of Sale initially. The ideal candidate has extensive experience as a product manager for SME or small business solutions and has performed well previously in a rapidly changing and growing organization.

ROLE | WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING?

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop product strategy and roadmaps for features related to our Point of sale, and SME focused business solutions.
• Along with engineering leadership, develop appropriate planning, prioritization, and release management processes to enable us to launch new features across Android, iOS, and Desktop / Web.
• Drive superb execution against plan, anticipating staffing needs, risks, and the need for frequent and clear communication internally and with customers.
• Prioritize and design features for the thousands of customers who use Yoco to grow and manage their businesses every day.
• Manage the rollout of beta programs, the onboarding of our initial customer base, and the P&L of new product offerings.
• Develop effective reports that help the rest of the company understand the performance of the various product lines you manage.

IDEAL CANDIDATE | WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?

Key requirements to perform responsibilities:

• Product management experience building and maintaining mobile products and features Strong technical background to enable you to contribute meaningfully to features.
• A good understanding of the problems that small businesses face, and a willingness to hit the ground and get your hands dirty.
• Passionate about Yoco and the problem we are solving
• Relentless desire to understand customers
• Natural talent for mediating competing interests and finding creative solutions
• Great track record of working with engineering and design teams: people want to work with you again

EXPECTATIONS OF YOCO EMPLOYEES

• Dealing with People
• Communicating & influencing: Strong communication skills across various mediums, building collaborative relationships internally and externally
• Dealing with Business
• Preventing & solving problems: Diagnostic information gathering and research, analytical thinking, application of conceptual thinking to problem-solving.
• Achieving results:Proactive / initiative, customer orientated, fostering innovation, continuous improvement mindset, appreciation of results, business acumen, thoroughness and detail orientated
• Dealing with Self-management
• Self-confidence, personal credibility, flexibility, adaptability and strong sense of personal accountability

VALUE PROPOSITION | WHY WORK FOR YOCO?

• As part of the Yoco team, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in the growth of the mobile Point of Sale and payments solution opportunity in South Africa.
• To support this we have built a role-based organisation; where every individual is given the space to focus and develop his or her innate strengths. Everyone here has the opportunity to lead a project and become a specialist, enabling flexibility, collaboration and accountability at all levels.
• We offer a competitive package for an early stage venture; with flexible working hours and time off when you need it. In addition to this, you will have the opportunity to participate in our Equity Incentive scheme, which will be uncapped based on performance.