JOB TITLE:
Product manager (Core
Gateway)
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Do you care about Product
development and enjoy designing and delivering cutting edge products?
The Product/ Tech team is
looking for a Product Manager to lead product development end to end from
owning the vision to ensuring delivery of the same.
This role sits at the core
of the organization’s growth path. It requires being a product strategist
and a communicator — which translates to a product roadmap, requiring you to
convey the “why” behind the products you’re building. Essential is professional
interaction, active and passive listening skills and the ability to utilize
analysis skills in a highly effective manner to educate and provide accurate
responses & solutions to customer inquiries, along with the innate ability
to be compassionate and empathetic when handling customers and their product
requests.
About the team:
You will lead and directly
work with a cross-functional set of team members. (Kindly input who this role
would interact with)
As a product manager, the
role is cross functional and responsible for managing communication of the
business needs and the product delivery across teams of different disciplines.
Duties & Responsibilities
Communicate the product
vision and mission to the teams
Generate reports
- Gather
requirements and provide quality documentation of detailed user/market
requirements.
- Bring
vision to the team in the form of new ideas and approaches.
Develop roadmaps and execution
- Drive
the coordination and clear communication of a multi-product roadmap,
working across multiple groups.
- Research
new use cases, bugs, issues, platform architecture, stack changes in
various industry segments.
- Define
and drive product strategies, and overall roadmaps in collaboration with
business partners.
- Drive
prioritization and resourcing planning, and decision alignment across
functions and levels.
Define, track and manage product performance
- Owns
Product Performance in a specific Industry.
- Monitors
and analyzes product performance, converts data into meaningful business
insights and make recommendations to stakeholders for improvisation.
- Design
wireframes, graphics, screen mock-ups and participate in usability
evaluations.
Research and Development
- Develop
detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to
create product specifications and architecture for each product and
application.
- Work
closely with the engineering teams to design, schedule and deliver in an
agile environment.
- Convert
localized trends and requirements into product features.
Qualifications
Must have experience:
- Around
5~10 years of Industrial experience (Telecom, Banking, Fintech, Mobile
Money etc.).
- Product
Management experience and coming from a payments gateway background.
- Build
and manage a payment platform (ideally for a payments processor or a
switch background).
- Ability
to drive a products through that product maturity life cycle.
- Work
in complex work environment and ability to work under pressure.
- Ability
to handle multiple assignments, tasks and responsibilities.
- Empathetic
to customer needs, work to understand the questions that customers ask and
why.
- Project
Management experience.
- Knowledge
of software development lifecycle stages.
- Excellent
skills in how to write Business/Market Requirement Cases, User Stories and
Solutions.
- Functional
product experience e.g. Where a merchant uploads a form.
- Non-functional
requirements such as scalability, risk assessment, availability,
reliability and security. Anticipate these issues in a payment gateway
environment.
- Deep
understanding of Telecom, Banking, Finance, modern trade, e-commerce and
payments ecosystem.
- Ability
to conduct independent research and convert data into meaningful business
insights.
- Able
to manage software engineers.
Experience that will count in your favour:
- Software
engineering/systems engineering experience (Lead Developer or Software
Engineering Manager).
- Tech
Stack knowledge – Java, Java Spring Boot + Angular.
- Technical
project/program manager experience.
- Strong
Agile knowledge.
- Strong
API knowledge.
Qualifications:
- Around
5~10 years of Industrial experience (Telecom, Banking, Fintech, Mobile
Money etc.).
- Minimum
2 years of working experience in a similar role.
Personal attributes:
- Accuracy
and detail-orientated.
- Interpersonal
and oral communication skills.
- Excellent
communication skills mandatory.
- Excellent
interpersonal skills mandatory.
If you don’t hear back from us within 14 days from your
application please consider your application unsuccessful.
How to Apply