Product Manager at Pagatech Limited

Pagatech was founded in early 2009 with a vision to enable a cashless society and bank the unbanked in Africa. Our first product offering, Paga, is a direct to consumer mobile payments service. Paga is an innovative, open, secure, and interoperable mobile payments platform that allows any person who has a mobile phone to transact electronically – thus turning the mobile phone into an electronic wallet.Job Summary

Product development activities at Paga fall within the Product Development group, which has distinct, full-stack (from a resource perspective) teams dedicated to a functional organization unit.
For example, one of the functional teams in the Product Development team is the Agent Network Team, which is responsible for the development and delivery of products used by the large network of financial service delivery points (agents), across the countries where Paga exists.
As a full-stack team, this team includes project management, product management, software and database engineering, quality assurance, and UI/UX/Product-Design resources. All teams execute product development using Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
As a Product Manager at Paga, you will individually or jointly have ownership for the success of several specific products and/or features from the set of Products that Paga delivers to its external and internal customers.

This means:

Driving strategic decision-making for the products/features within your purview and driving tactical decisions for them
Overseeing the development of new products and features.
Curating and growing existing products
Generally delighting your customers (both internal and external)

At Paga, a product manager's role is both strategic and tactical. To be an effective product manager at Paga, you must:

Have good customer/market empathy to drive a consumer-centric design ethos
Have very strong critical thinking skills to be able to translate user needs into meaningful products in a variety of diverse use cases
Have the ability to multitask and effectively prioritize a competing number of objectives simultaneously
Be comfortable with rapid change and be willing to take ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment
Be able to work well in a team comprised of multiple product development skills, including other product managers
As a distributed product development team member, communication and collaboration are key. You will need to be excellent at utilizing remote communication tools and applying clear communication and collaboration practices to effectively engage with your “customers”, teammates, and other company stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

Product development activities – Executing product-development activities (ideation, specification, design, development feedback, and post-deployment product curation) for specific products and features
Market engagement – Engaging with end-users and the marketing team to refine product vision.
Product curation – Continuously improving existing product offerings through both qualitative and quantitative analysis of product performance and product/market fit.
Partner Engagement – Working effectively with industry/ecosystem partners to accomplish product goals

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree.
3+ years of product management or similar product development experience
Agile product development methodology experience.

Key Competencies:

Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
Excellent in team and cross-team collaboration skills
Great verbal/written communication skills
Highly observant with an attentiveness to detail
Strong multi-tasking and self-management skills
Curious, self-driven, and empathetic.