Product Manager
Nomanini, South Africa
Job Description
Closing date: 20 November 2022
About the Company
Nomanini, founded in 2011, is a pioneering fintech company that provides informal retail merchants with access to digital payment solutions and credit to improve their business. Our platform provides interoperable retail payments and supply chain financing by combining new digital financial services with existing distribution networks.
Nomanini currently has 30+ staff and is growing 500% year-on-year, expecting to continue scaling up at this rate for the next 3-5 years.
This role is an opportunity to have a massive positive impact on many tens of thousands of lives. We are looking for someone who finds motivation in the work we do and is willing to work with us to deliver services in this underserved space.
Nomanini’s values, outlined below, are critical to our success:
Be honest ... so we ... communicate frequently and candidly.
Value discussion ... so we ... make deliberate decisions.
Focus on results ... so we ... get stuff done.
Experiment ... so we ... learn and grow by taking controlled and deliberate risks.
Respect people ... so we ... value diversity of thinking.
More about the role:
The Product Manager is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the Product Life-cycle, including: defining the product vision, gathering and prioritising product and customer requirements, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals and measuring whether product initiatives produce the expected stakeholder value.
The Product Manager:
- Defines the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Gathers, manages, and prioritises market/customer requirements.
- Acts as the customer advocate, articulating the user’s and/or partner’s needs.
- Works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met.
- Measures whether product initiatives produce the expected stakeholder value
Key result areas:
1. Define a niche product roadmap that makes sense to financial service institutions, FMCG partners and informal merchants
- Develops the business case for new products, and improvements to existing products
- Develops Go To Market and Implementation and Support plans with the Head of Product , Revenue and Engineering teams to ensure external customer goals are met.
- develops positioning and look and feel of the product
2. Drive product growth, scaling teams and set the relevant product vision amp; strategy
- Design optimal strategy for the relevant product delivery across the key markets factoring in the current and projected future state of the relevant markets, competitors, regulatory pressures etc.
- Be an internal expert, staying engaged with key ongoing market developments, regulatory interventions, competitor activity, events and conferences etc
3. Provide efficient and effective operational reporting for the relevant product
- Influence internal stakeholders during the life cycle of the relevant product development, improvement and implementation
- Continuously measure and report on if the relevant product produces the expected stakeholder value
4. Influence internal stakeholders during the life cycle of product development, improvement and implementation
- Act as a contributor and/or lead through the development life cycle working as an integrated part of the engineering and operations team.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree (or equivalent)
- A post graduate qualification is advantageous
- Technical background is a plus
Experience:
- 2 - 5 years Fintech or relevant experience
- Demonstrated success in defining and launching products that meet business objectives
- Subject matter expertise in a particular product or market.
- Experience of engaging with external customers
- Experience of engaging across the organization with internal colleagues and third party suppliers (e.g. Software development, Operations, Finance and Revenue, Marketing)
Technical Competencies:
- Ability to quickly learn complex domains
- Technical knowledge and ability to effectively communicate and discuss technical requirements with engineers
- Product Design - UI/UX
- Credit modelling