Product Manager: Platform & Transactions at Lesaka Technologies

The role

• This role owns the engine every product rides on. A voucher purchase, an electricity token and a bill payment are all, underneath, a transaction that must authorise, reconcile and settle reliably. You own that shared capability across all verticals- reliability, integrations, scale and cost-to-serve, so the products don’t each solve the same plumbing problem three different ways.

What you’ll own

• Drive transaction success rates, latency and uptime across every product vertical.
• Own the integration roadmap, new payment methods, aggregators and partner APIs with reusable patterns that cut onboarding time.
• Define the non-functional requirements (throughput, latency, failover) that engineering builds against.
• Benchmark our rails against the market- settlement speed, failure rates, payment-method coverage and close the gaps that matter.
• Drive cost-to-serve down through smarter routing and retry/recovery frameworks.
• Filter genuine systemic reliability problems from one-off incidents, and prioritise accordingly.

What you bring

• 3+ years in product management on platform, payments, transactional or infrastructure products.
• Strong grasp of transaction flows, integrations and non-functional requirements.
• Ability to read transaction and failure data and turn it into a prioritised roadmap.
• Confidence partnering closely with engineering on architecture trade-offs without owning the sprint.
• A reliability and cost mindset you treat uptime and unit economics as product features.

Nice to have

• Experience with payment switches, aggregators or token vending.
• Exposure to high-volume, low-latency transaction environments.

Closing Date 10 October 2026