Product Manager at PayFast

• We're looking for a Product Manager to help us build our Product solutions and improve our merchant experience. If you love working in cross-functional teams, and come alive solving real-world problems, you’ll love working at Payfast. The focus will be aligned with Value added Service, Stores of value and various integrated payment channels. 

About the team

• We care deeply about designing and building products that help our customers get paid and grow their businesses. We love solving problems together by combining data and creative thinking to customer and business challenges. Mostly we love making things real and having fun doing it. 

About you

• You’d love to work with us if you’re a fun and self-motivated person who has a passion for people and care deeply about learning and improving your personal and technical skill. 

We'd love to meet you if you...

• You have some experience in Product Management, preferably with digital and/or financial or payment products.
• You understand the power and value of design. You also understand how an authentic brand can be shaped to make a product that users genuinely love.
• You have a passion for learning and want to grow in your knowledge of payments and fintech. 
• You have a bias to action. You know how to get things done by staying focused on the things that really matter and forging a path into the unknown.  
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Understand that product development is a team sport and working well with others is the key to your own success. 

What you'll be doing

• Set vision and strategy:  Your work should be grounded in research with a clear short and long-term strategy. This strategy needs to be translated into a comprehensive plan for what features will be viable for the various market segments we serve, along with the relevant cost and revenue projections. 
• Create:Lead the discovery and development of new products, while optimizing existing product features.
• Drive execution: Create and set clear goals with your team, regularly checking progress, learn and adjust course as you progress. Develop success metrics and continued analysis of performance and reports post-launch.
• Lead the roadmap: Understand our market, competition, and user requirements in-depth and translate them into a well-structured and executable roadmap.
• Understand our customer:Build a deep understanding of our merchants by speaking to them regularly, testing your work with them to apply actionable insights before requirements are drafted.
• Collaborate:Work with a multidisciplinary team consisting of engineering, data, design, and UX to deliver on the strategy.
• Make good decisions:Make decisions and help others to make decisions that enable us to deliver great products and services to our customers. 
• Contribute: be actively engaged in helping us improve how we work. 

What you'll need

• Have a proven track record of product launches where you have taken a product from concept to launch, driving product vision, creating product roadmaps, driving UX decisions, and steering technical implementation discussions
• You have significant experience (5+ years) as a software product manager, with demonstrable experience in App design & development. 
• You have a strong commercial mindset and are able to empathize with our core customer base. (Small, medium, and large enterprises).
• You understand the power and value of design. You also understand how an authentic brand can be shaped to make a product that users genuinely love.
• You have enough technical knowledge to quickly understand our payments ecosystem and how to maximize its value to our merchants. 
• Financial services, payments, or working in a regulated card scheme environment is preferred.
• You have a bias to action. You know how to get things done by staying focused on the things that really matter and forging a path into the unknown.  
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Understand that product development is a team sport and working well with others is the key to your own success