Job Description

• A digital bank with the goal of unlocking growth for small businesses across Africa by making it easier for them to get access to working capital is looking for a user-focused Product Lead who can expect the unexpected!

A bit about the Role

• This is an opportunity to help build our clients foundational product and business by leading the product strategy and execution across every aspect of what they build, both those that exist today, and those that will be built years in the future.
• The right product leadership will help the business to scale faster and realize this potential.

Requirements
Your daily adventures include:

• Develop the short term, multi-year vision, strategy and roadmap across all products targeted at the Nigerian market
• Drive product design and prioritisation decisions across directly managed teams, as well as teams who partner closely on related experiences within the business
• Be accountable for product roadmaps, resource allocation, and release cadence
• Deeply understand customer needs by spending time with customers, sales, and support and observing patterns/trends across their feedback and the market
• Work directly with potential SME customers to understand their needs and how the business can solve for them
• Work closely with engineering, design, and data science, customer development and user-facing teams to deliver great products to their customers
• Lead initiatives to build 0 → 1 products and experiences

What it takes to succeed:

• 3-5 years of experience in a product role
• Be a well-rounded and strategic product leader – someone who has excellent product design/UX sense and strengths in Nigeria’s market dynamics and marketing strategy
• Strong user acumen: You enjoy digging into the details of user and developer needs, identifying how to make it better, and building product/technical solutions to do so
• Experience designing and building surprisingly good consumer-grade products in order to help modernize B2B experiences
• Engineering partnership experience: You have partnered closely with engineer leadership to build products and complex systems at scale
• Strong stakeholder management: You have experience navigating difficult situations, negotiating timelines, and influencing internal and external stakeholders
• Operational savvy: You are a strong operational leader, capable of driving a cross-functional team and process
• Crisp communicator: High attention to detail including precise and effective communications, including with external customers/partners
• Determination to do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful
• Entrepreneurial experience and/or enjoys moving quickly on new, green-field products