Product Manager at PayU

PURPOSE OF THIS ROLE                                                                      

If you would like to help change the e-commerce world with cutting edge technology, join a leading Fintech company, PayU is a great place for you. The Product Manager is a pivotal PayU leadership role, offering a unique opportunity to take part in shaping and driving PayU’s offering. 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. 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACTIVITIES

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

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE                                                                                                

Entry-level Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in IT or Commerce)

Professional Requirements

• 2-3 years’ experience working as a Product Manager or Business Analyst
• Payments/Banking/Financial Services experience preferred
• Experience in Africa – South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and ROA
• Experience working with Development teams using agile methodology
• Experience within web, online and ecommerce/payments systems preferred
• Exposure into the Africa Landscape

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCIES                                                                                    

Desired Skills

• Superb articulation, communications, and overall leadership capabilities
• Technical and development background - demonstrated relevant experience
• 2-3 years of product management experience
• Customer-facing experience – a must
• Experience in a Technology Company
• Experience working with large complex systems
• Experience in the fintech– an advantage
• Fluent in English – we are a global company... so, ya - it's a must

Soft skills: Communication skills, charisma, team-player, execution driven, organized and methodological, sense of humor

Tech skills: ​tech/development understanding, familiar with product development lifecycle, experience working scrum/rapid/agile development environments, exposure to relevant working tools

 FinTech/industry: ​familiar of ecosystem, understanding of financial payment systems, e-commerce