Product Manager at Payaza Africa Limited

Payaza is a leading African payments and fintech company enabling businesses to collect, disburse, and manage money seamlessly across multiple countries. With innovative products such as Collections, Branches, Payment Links, Checkout SDK, Payouts, Sub-Accounts, and Multi-Currency Accounts, we power the financial journeys of merchants, SMEs, and enterprises with speed, reliability, and scale. Our vision is to build the backbone of payments across Africa, delivering seamless transactions for businesses and individuals alike.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Role Overview

• This role is key to defining product strategy, prioritizing features, and ensuring the delivery of solutions that meet customer needs while driving business growth in a regulated fintech environment.
• The ideal candidate will collaborate across engineering, design, and business teams to deliver high-quality, user-centric products.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for both Card Acquiring services (online/offline) and the Core Banking application.
• Define and manage the product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements based on market opportunities, user feedback, technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, and strategic goals.
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements, user stories, and specifications for the engineering and design teams.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, UI/UX and other team members within an Agile framework, participating in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Serve as the primary product expert for Card Acquiring and Core Banking internally and externally.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to support product launches, go-to-market strategies, and gather market feedback.
• Engage with Operations, Finance, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure operational readiness, risk management, and adherence to regulatory frameworks.
• Engage with external partners, potentially including payment schemes (Visa,Mastercard, Verve), partner banks, and key clients, as needed.
• Define success metrics and KPIs for your products and track performance post-launch, and utilize data analytics to inform product decisions and identify areas for improvement.

Collaboration:

• Engineering & Design: Align on requirements, user experience, and feature delivery.
• Business & Stakeholders: Communicate product vision, gather requirements, and ensure strategic alignment.
• Data & Analytics: Leverage insights to drive decisions and optimize product performance.
• Marketing, Sales & Customers: Coordinate go-to-market efforts, gather feedback, and validate solutions.

Requirements
Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ownership and continuous improvement mindset.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the future of payments and financial services in Africa.
• A dynamic and innovative work environment with a high-performing team.
• Competitive compensation and performance-based incentives.
• Health benefits, training, and professional development opportunities.
• A culture of ownership, creativity, and growth.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online