Product Manager at Interswitch Group

Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. We started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processing, and have progressively evolved into an integrated payment services company, building and managing payment infrastructure as well as delivering innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent. At Interswitch, we offer unique career opportunities for individuals capable of playing key roles and adding value in an innovative and fun environment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Permanent
Department: Paymate - Digital Commerce & Merchant Acquiring

Job Description

• To operate as the product expert combining market analysis, end-user feedback, and technology knowledge to establish a distinctive product vision, roadmap, and an effective engineering partnership to deliver world-class products at premium pricing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and approaches to define a compelling and feasible product vision for our platform strategy execution
• Translate platform vision into a product roadmap that balances customer needs with internal resources
• Conduct market research to determine market size, penetration, and opportunities
• Conceptualize, prioritize, and write succinct product requirements (typically as user stories and epics) to cross-functional working team
• Be a resident domain expert of product capabilities and functions / features
• Evangelize and train sales, marketing, support, operations and services delivery teams on the product capabilities
• Maintain and prioritize product backlog and track feature releases
• Communicate progress against roadmap and product performance across the cross-functional teams as well as throughout the organization
• Partner with Engineering and Business Development teams to build and launch world-class products
• Refine product vision based on feedback from end users, support teams, and other internal and external stakeholders
• Track product effectiveness and continually work towards a tangible and sustained value proposition
• Ensure market messaging is consistent with product functionality and highlights distinctive value proposition(s)
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project
• Translate business strategy into product strategy and execute product strategy
• Provide insight to stakeholders on product and the market
• Participate in daily scrum meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives
• Assist the development team in digital payments development according to end-user needs
• Conduct research on product enhancements and new product offerings
• Manage feature iteration throughout the product lifecycle
• Recommend changes to existing products based on customer feedback or industry trends
• Participate in brainstorming sessions with members of other departments to generate new product ideas
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Carry out competitor and market analysis
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trend.

Requirements

• A good Degree in any Computer Science or any other relevant or related field of study from an accredited University
• Relevant industry certification(s)
• 8 years minimum experience in product management or related industry.

Application Closing Date
8th March, 2023.