Product Manager (Global Payments and Platforms)
On-siteLagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Job Summary
Drive continuous discovery with merchants across key African markets and global regions, synthesizing insights into clear problems and opportunities. Align teams on a shared vision, owning a multi-country roadmap and sequencing rollouts by impact, readiness, and regulatory complexity. Lead product decisions from inception to launch, defining metrics to guide improvements and running experiments across markets. Own go-to-market strategies for new regions, including localization, multi-currency pricing, and tax compliance. Build external partnerships with banks and PSPs to unlock regional capabilities while ensuring launch readiness with legal and compliance teams. Remove blockers and communicate progress to internal and external stakeholders, representing the client at industry events and negotiations.
Required Qualifications
- Background in computer science, software engineering, or data science (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years building and managing technical software products, including end-to-end launches across multiple countries/regions
- Proven experience in payments across markets: local payment methods, multi-currency, FX/settlement, reconciliation, taxes/invoicing, PCI, KYC/AML, data privacy, and varied regulatory environments
- Based in Nigeria with strong knowledge of African and global consumer/merchant markets; comfortable working across time zones
- Clear, empathetic communicator verbally and in writing
- Deep and unrelenting customer focus; motivated to improve users' lives
- Thrive in collaborative environments with diverse stakeholders and subject-matter experts
- Can turn incomplete or conflicting inputs into solid, actionable plans
- Will do what it takes to make the product and team successful (from writing a QA plan to tracing the root cause of a user issue)
- Creative product thinker; partners well with engineering, analytics, marketing, design, and sales
- Obsessed with continuous improvement: can optimize a portfolio of small/medium/large releases not just net-new launches
- Evidence-based, data-driven decision-maker with excellent organization and prioritization skills
- Internationalization/localization (i18n/l10n) and pricing/packaging by market experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience on a financial services/payments platform operating in multiple regions
- Track record in cross-border payments, global acquiring, and partnerships with banks/PSPs/networks
- Startup experience or prior role as a software developer
- Exposure to risk/fraud, compliance tooling, or ML-driven decisioning
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