Product Manager at Kudi Nigeria

Kudi aims to make financial services accessible and affordable for all Africans and is particular about retaining her place as a significant player in the African fintech space. We have a well-established track record in payments, and our services have always met with excellent customer satisfaction. We are empowering agents to tackle financial inclusion while creating entrepreneurial opportunities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We're building tools and infrastructure to help businesses start, run and scale their business from anywhere in Nigeria. That's where you come in: we're looking for product managers to join our Product team to drive and own out our credit product and design custom credit offerings for businesses across different verticals.
• This helps accelerate the growth of businesses and in turn, enables them to grow their business with us.
• This role is a unique mix of product, business, strategy, and execution, all in the name of helping businesses grow. You will identify and prioritize various growth levers, including:
  • Development of new features
  • Optimizing existing features
  • Experimentation to drive acquisition/retention
• You will push boundaries, trying anything and everything that helps drive long-term success for the credit product and the businesses we serve.

Job Responsibilities
About the Position:

• Manage product lifecycle; gathering and prioritising customer requirements, defining product vision and working closely with necessary stakeholders to deliver winning products.
• Manage the process from conceptualisation, design, prototyping, development, testing, business, support, product launch and post-deployment analytics.
• Maintain and manage the product roadmap owning and writing the relevant PRDs for all features.
• Identify and meticulously track key success metrics for product features.
• Have a clear plan for product operations: the achievement of growth objectives including market share, revenue, profit and return on investment for all the channels/categories of business and/or key customers.
• Identify new areas for growth through customer research and development.
• Create an avenue to receive input from product stakeholders ensuring their input is a key Influence in product development.
• Drive product launch alongside marketing team and other product management team members.
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience in a bid to identify and fill product gaps that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive business growth.
• Work with third party Lenders to craft amazing credit products for our customers.
• Partner with the Legal and Compliance teams to ensure the products developed are compliant with relevant regulations.

Requirements
About You:

• A technical Degree or equivalent work experience in product development and management.
• At least 2 years of experience working in the Financial Technology Industry.
• Proven track record of working with sales, designers, engineers and various stakeholders to coordinate, plan, execute and track product releases.
• Demonstrated success in defining and launching excellent products.
• A self-starter who works well both collaboratively as an individual contributor.
• Exceptional communication (written and oral) and presentation skills.
• Empathy, and a genuine desire to solve our customer’s problems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without enforcing authority.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.