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The Stitch team hold deep experience building fintech and developer-facing products in Africa. We started building the Stitch API to make it easier for African fintech developers to create new, improved, more ambitious products.
Description
The Role
Stitch is a B2B fintech startup with on a mission to enable African fintech startups to setup and scale more quickly. Creating innovative financial products is incredibly difficult, and we believe that unlocking the way people interact with their finances starts with enabling developers with the tools and infrastructure needed to execute on their vision. We provide an API which allows fintechs to interact with their user's bank accounts for data and payments.
You will be the only person at Stitch working on Product Strategy & Operations. You ****will work directly with our Chief Product Officer to define our product strategy and to be a key interface between the Product & Engineering team and the rest of the organization. This is a wide ranging role requiring a mix of operational and strategic capabilities.
Responsibilities
Perform user, competitor and industry research to inform our product strategy
Work with our CPO and the broader organization to shape our product strategy at a company level and at a product level
Convert the product strategy into an actionable set of goals, a plan and a product roadmap
Design and lead the process of collecting and prioritizing user requirements from our GTM team and self-service channels
Design and lead the new product launch process including how we run pilots, and publicly launch products with our GTM team
Requirements
Bachelor's degree, ideally in Computer Science, Economics, Engineering
5 - 10 years of relevant work experience
Experience in strategic planning and product development, particularly in fast moving technology company would be advantageous
Experience at a top-tier management consulting firm would be advantageous
Advantageous
Strong network and content knowledge in the local Fintech or Banking space
Interest in Open Banking
Experience working in B2B SaaS, API or Payments companies
Strong knowledge of customers and customer needs in various key markets - including South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana
Description
The Role
The role will be based in our head office in Cape Town. South African work permit sponsorship is available for this role.
Stitch is a developer-first API startup with a mission to deeply connect financial systems with the wider world. We provide an API which allows third-party apps and websites to interact with their user's bank accounts in ways that unlocks the ability for companies across Africa to build innovative technology products quickly.
Creating innovative financial products is incredibly difficult today, and we believe that unlocking the way people interact with their finances starts with enabling developers with the tools and infrastructure needed to execute on their vision.
We're looking for a Product Manager with experience in online payments in Nigeria to join our product team. Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, this individual will be responsible for helping shape and define Stitch's product roadmap, and in particular leverage their experience in-country to provide discovery, insight, and planning leadership for products launched in Nigeria.
As a Product Manager, you'll be responsible for helping to define and manage the products which will enable Stitch and our customers to shape the future of financial services. You'll connect with our users to understand their needs, develop product strategy, prioritise and roadmap key features, and work closely with Engineering to ship products.
You will be responsible for coordinating teams across Stitch to move a product from ideation to scale including engineering, design, legal, data science, marketing and sales. As a result you will need to be a strong communicator that can work cross functionally.
The ideal candidate has built technical products from scratch.
Responsibilities
Deeply understand Nigerian customer needs by spending time with customers, sales, and support and observing patterns/trends across their feedback and the market
Define the product strategy and roadmap for our payments, data, and verification products with a specific attentiveness to the needs of the Nigerian market
Provide insight into the Nigerian market landscape, including competitive and alternative offerings that may inform Stitch's approach to productizing in-country
Work closely with our engineers to build new products and features
Own decisions directly impacting the growth of Stitch’s data business
Work cross functionally with engineering, design, data science, legal, marketing and sales to build and grow our data products
Requirements
Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience
6-10 years of total work experience in Nigeria
2 - 4 years in a product role, most recently as a product manager
Strong knowledge of customer payments and data needs in Nigeria
A track record of success in financial technology or a related technology start-up
Has built APIs, products, and complex systems at scale
Top-tier technical acumen, curiosity, and familiarity with new technologies, APIs, Developer Experiences and database
Advantageous
Strong network and content knowledge in the local Fintech or Banking space
Strong knowledge of customers and customer needs in other various key markets - including South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana
Experience in working in B2B SaaS, API or Payments companies
Strong understanding of developers and what makes a good developer experience
Experience developing APIs
Experience working on B2B2C products, or experience with both developing products for developers and developing products for end-users
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