Position: Product Manager
Company: Smart Hires
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for a Product Manager for our client - Africa’s industry leader in Card manufacturing, personalization/fulfillment and digital solutions, offering superior end-to-end Identity management and digital security solutions to Public, Private, Finance, Telecoms and Retail sectors.

They are the first certified smartcard manufacturing plant in sub-Saharan Africa and are capable of manufacturing all kinds of smartcards, including highly complex Polycarbonate Cards.

They care, not only about the value their employees can add to our system, but also about the value that their system can add to their employees.

Your responsibilities will be:
- Be involved in developing products for banking and applications for financial and government sectors of the economy,
- Writing scripts and personalisation implementation for EMV cards,
- Managing product road maps and releases.
- Identifying and filling product gaps.
- Generating new product ideas and projects in banking and government related areas.
- Working alongside engineering teams.
- In-depth knowledge of payments environments of Brands/ Issuers/ processors / Acquirers models is a necessity
- Produce detailed product and functional requirements that will drive product development, testing and deployment
- Provide analytical insight and assistance with strategies to drive merchant revenues and transaction growth.
- Be a contact between a company and a customer,
- Be responsible for implementing the product of the partners.

Competencies:
- 7+ years of experience required.
- Applicable Knowledge and experience of EMV,
- Ability to work independently within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive fact-based recommendations to stakeholders and to juggle multiple initiatives at once
- Understanding of EMV standards,
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related numerable field.
- Previous experience in a product development or management role.
- Proven product development ability.
- Technical background with experience in software development or web technologies.
- Attention to detail and good problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Good written and verbal communication.
- Exceptional leadership skills.
- Fluent English

Perks of the company:
- Schedule: 8:00 am - 5.00pm. Flexible/ remote work schedules can be discussed.
- Vacation: applicable
- Sick leave: applicable
- Compensation for co-working
- Paid English courses and other courses
- Insurance
- Providing PC or etc: applicable