Product Manager, New Features
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- đ Our mission
At NALA, weâre building payments for the Next Billion. This means transforming how money moves into Africa, Asia and beyond. By building cutting-edge payment solutions, weâre simplifying financial transactions for individuals and businesses alikeâhelping them thrive in a global economy.
Weâre driven by innovation, community, and the belief that everyone deserves access to reliable, efficient, and affordable financial services. If youâre passionate about creating meaningful change and shaping the future of fintech in Africa and Asia, join us and be part of a team thatâs revolutionising financial empowerment on a global scale.
đ Your Mission
This squad is focused on one thing: delivering new features that make life easier for our customers.
In this role, youâll engage with customers nearly every day to understand their challenges and uncover opportunities - not just in remittances but in ways we can support them beyond that.
You should have experience in a B2C business - or maybe even started your own. Youâll bring exceptional customer discovery skills, the ability to prioritise ruthlessly, and a deep understanding of customer needs. These will pair with your expertise in designing sophisticated, customer-centered experiences.
If youâre passionate about pushing the creation of new features and having a meaningful impact on our customers - this is the role for you.
đŻ Your Responsibilities in this Role
- Bring a sense of urgency to your work and inspire the team to unite under your leadership to deliver an incredible product
- Take ownership of the consumer product to drive the product and business-planning process across cross-functional teams of the company
- Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
- Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates NALA and its features across primary market segments
- Collaborate with design, engineering, research, legal and compliance teams to refine your plan and execute it effectively
- Youâll be speaking to customers on a near daily basis to understand needs and ultimately sticking our ethos of âcustomer firstâ
- Assess current competitor offerings to seek opportunities for differentiation
- Develop an understanding of our users at a deep level and gauge customer needs to propose prospective solutions
- Define initial product proposition and go-to-market strategies for new expansion markets
- Meeting with the C-suite to discuss financial data and ways to improve business operations
Requirements
đ„ Must-have requirements
- You have 5+ years of product management experience shipping world-class products at fast-growing companies and have had demonstrable engagement with Design, Engineering and Leadership teams
- Proven experience shipping a breadth of high-quality consumer product features at a Fintech or Payments company
- You have strong empathy for customers and an unwillingness to compromise on user-centered design
- We understand that perfect data is not available but knowing what pragmatic assumptions can be made to drive reasonable decisions is very important
- You have enough engineering context to know a bad MVP from a good one and have experience with product discovery methodologies
- Experience in working with third parties, whether itâs evaluating APIs and capabilities, mapping out integration plans or evaluating different technology options
đȘ Nice to have requirements
- Understand equally the customers needs from a UK, African and Asian perspective
- In addition to English, you can also speak French or Swahili
âĄïž Interview Process
- Talent Screen with our People team to ensure experience and skill alinement for the role (30 minutes)
- Product Sense call with SĂ©lim, Head of Product (45 Minutes)
- Take home written task
- Task Review Session with SĂ©lim, Head of Product & Nico, CTO (1 hour)
- Culture and Customer Empathy with Benji, CEO (30 minutes)
âïž Benefits
UK / EU / Remote, we have the following benefits:
- 35 Days Off : Enjoy an amazing 35 days of holidays to unwind and explore.
- Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
- Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
- Global Workspace : Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.
- Learning Budget : Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
For people who come to our Canary Wharf, London office:
- Hybrid Working : We work in the office three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).
- Sarabi : Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team.
- Monthly Socials : Join fun social events every month for great times.
- Free Coffee : Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips.
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