Product Manager, Payments at Klasha

Klasha is a technology company that builds cross-border commerce solutions for Africa. Klasha Business allows international merchants to accept payments from Africa using African money methods and currencies with payouts in hard currencies. B2B African merchants can also send money cross-border to different parts of the world in G20 and hard currencies. Klasha Personal allows consumers in Africa to shop and spend cross-border internationally through an app using African money methods and currencies. Our vision is for African consumers to have the same frictionless access to the goods they want, regardless of their geographic location, by transacting using African currencies and money methods.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager, Payments

Location: Lagos
Department: Product

About the Role

• We are searching for an experienced payment product manager that will focus on our B2B initiatives. You will work alongside our Head of Product and designers to build and scale complex payment solutions.
• Success in this role means that international merchants are able to accept payment from all African countries using African money methods and be settled in their preferred hard currency.
• We are small yet big enough for you to be able to experiment across many aspects of our startup. You will learn by doing, amongst a team of peers that loves what they do.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the integration of new payment methods across multiple countries on our gateway.
• Work with external payment providers and card networks to drive cost efficiency and optimise payment solutions.
• Partner with legal, network compliance, regulatory and risk stakeholders to effectively manage risks and confirm compliance.
• Analyse projections and forecasts and come up with opportunities to move the metrics and influence strategy.
• The ability to work around existing external infrastructure bottlenecks and country outages is key.
• Analyse and leverage data across various signal sources to drive decision-making ex: Posthog, UXcam, Appsflyer, Firebase, Google Analytics and others.
• Understanding app release trajectories and how to leverage them to continuously achieve double-digit growth on a monthly basis.
• Be very comfortable running user research, prototyping, and other product discovery work to build the right product for our users. Our potential customer base in Nigeria boasts a huge variance in terms of user needs, behaviours, and characteristics.
• Assist in growth initiatives alongside our marketing, content, and engineering teams.
• Drive product launches including working with the marketing team and other product management team members.
• Understand your product’s P&L and drive it as you deem fit.
• Deliver value and impact, regardless of tools and processes. PMs at Klasha are not a ticketing system for engineering but someone who owns their responsibilities and leads teams to solid outcomes.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in any Business-related course, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent preferred.
• Solid understanding of local and cross-border payment landscape.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience managing B2B SaaS-based products and services, particularly payment products.
• Have built and grown a successful payment gateway before.
• Ability to read and understand payment APIs and workflows, experience gathering business requirements and turning them into detailed technical requirements.
• Solid understanding of the local and global payment regulatory landscape.
• Ability to prioritise and work independently as well as in a team environment
• Automation savvy, with proficiency in analytics and wider tooling.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to identify and defend data-driven recommendations.
• High level of determination and tenacity.

Benefits
Our people are the heart of the business, so we prioritise welfare and offer a wide range of competitive benefits including but not limited to:

• All the latest technology you need to do your role.
• Employee stock option scheme.
• Private health insurance.
• Mental health wellness benefits
• Budget for French language classes.
• Hybrid; remote + office hours and flexible working conditions.
• Diesel and wifi allowance for remote working.
• Work-from-anywhere weeks; work from anywhere for three weeks in a year.
• Paid birthday day off.
• Team building events.
• Paid parental leave.
• Learning and development budget.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online