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Based in Nigeria, not fully remote. Hybrid: you split the week between home and the employer's office in Nigeria.
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Product Manager
Company: Paga
Sector: Financial Services
Position: Product Manager
Reports to: Senior Product Manager or Head of Product Management
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Experience: 3+ years of product management experience
SUMMARY
Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
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 development and delivery of products used by the large network of financial service delivery point (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 for several specific products and/or features from the set of Products that Paga delivers to its external and internal customers.
This means:
Paga has a distributed product development team with resources split between Lagos, Nigeria, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and now, Mexico City, so this role, comes with the expectation of very strong remote collaboration and self-management skills. There will be the expectation of occasional, but rare (twice a year at most) travel to some of the Paga office locations for training, team events, user-engagement and general market-empathy development.
At Paga, a product manager's role is both strategic and tactical. To be an effective product manager at Paga you must:
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”, team mates and other company stakeholders.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
KEY COMPETENCIES
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS
Click on this link https://paga.bamboohr.com/jobs/ to apply for this job.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity inclusion. We do not discriminate on grounds of colour, race, nationality, religion, age, ethnic origin, disability, gender, marital status, or sexual orientation in our employment practices.
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Paga is a Nigerian fintech company that provides a comprehensive financial services ecosystem including payment processing, money transfers, digital banking, and business management solutions across Africa and for the African diaspora. Key offerings include Paga Engine (payment infrastructure for businesses), Paga app (consumer payments), Doroki (retail business management), and Paga Remit (cross-border remittances). It aims to enable financial inclusion and global trade for individuals and SMEs.
Lagos, Nigeria · 201-500 people · Founded 2009 · Series B
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