Position: Relocation to Dubai, Product manager (Payments) for Fintech product company
Company: MoveUp
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We are looking for a dynamic, high-impact product manager to lead the integration of payment partners across the continent into our platform:


Helping identify and prioritize partners,
Doing technical assessment prior to contracting,
Creating the payment integration roadmap and grooming the backlog,
Designing the integration solution to maximize the value of each integration,
Leading the integration development from the product side,
Delivering a successful integration to the market, and
Ensuring that it meets our user experience and performance needs over time.

This product manager will be responsible for understanding where the payments industry is going both globally and how those trends apply locally in the African context, as well as what is unique in Africa that may evolve differently than it has in other regions of the world.


RESPONSIBILITIES

End-to-end product management of our payment network integrations: definition, planning, specification, product development, go-live, and rollout

Product ownership of our network partnerships, including banks, real-time payment platforms, switches, mobile money platforms, eWallets, payment aggregators and gateways, issuing platforms, point-of-sale platforms, and other network partners
Providing day-to-day product delivery and quality management
Ensure awareness of product status and roadmap risks across the group
Driving post-launch look-backs and internal process improvements
Committing to continuous improvement through metrics and user-driven insights



REQUIREMENTS

5+ years of product management experience in payments, gig economy, or super-app company
At least 3 years in payment integration, with a focus on at least one of open banking, real-time bank transfers, eWallet / Mobile Money, card acquiring, transaction processing, or payment gateway integration
Clear knowledge of the online payments lifecycle and a well-honed “Spidey sense” for what drives conversion and payment success, and the negative exceptions that can prevent successful transactions
Must be able to talk knowledgeably with eCommerce players, banks, lenders, FinTechs, and clients who live and breathe payments every day
Ability to communicate visually through wireframes and a portfolio of previous work, and quantitatively through a deep understanding of relevant customer metrics
Experienced as an Agile product owner
Well-developed product management skills
Experience integrating third-party providers and clients
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science desirable, or an equivalent degree and relevant professional experience
Lived, worked or studied in - or simply have a passion for -  Africa


Must Haves / Things to Verify

Explains how the payments industry  is evolving in their country of residence, and how that is the same or different from other regions

Can deeply explain in plain language how a payment flow they have worked on works, why that choice is relevant to both the buyer and the merchant being paid - and how it differs from other potential choices

Can describe what would make a payment unsuccessful, and what one would do to improve the system to so payments are more successful

Can talk about how they would educate a team of engineers who aren’t subject matter experts in payments, and keep them excited and engaged (e.g. training, knowledge sharing about trends, demos, mini-hackathons)

Can demonstrate their work online - a payment flow they have built, what it looks like, what the user has to do, what they did to make it better, and what isn’t done that would make it even better.