Kora is a payment infrastructure. We offer plug-and-play payment solutions for businesses to launch a tailored payment experience for their customers. We are not a payments app. We are not a wallet. We are the layer underneath: the settlement infrastructure. . .

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Job Type: Remote

Job Field: Product Management

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our growing Product Management team at Kora. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead our Pay-ins and Payouts products.

As the Product Manager for Pay-ins, you’ll be responsible for optimizing the current payment methods we support and building new ways for our merchants to accept payments.

As the Product Manager for Payouts, you’ll be responsible for optimizing and improving the current payout channel we support while building new channels in other countries we are expanding to. 

Product Managers at Kora own the end-to-end problem they are trying to solve with their team. As the Senior Product Manager for either Payouts or Pay-ins, you will develop and execute the product strategy that enables seamless payment experiences for our users.  

This role is a unique opportunity to impact how global and local businesses accept payments from customers all over Africa.

Essential Duties

• Strive to deeply understand user needs by conducting user research and identifying opportunities and pain points. And advocate for user needs through the cycle of building products.
• Define, document, and drive roadmaps, project plans, and precise product specifications that consistently deliver quality products for your customers.
• Work with a team of engineers and designers to discover solutions to customer pain points, and build and launch products for local and global businesses.
• Define and drive roadmaps, project plans, and precise product specifications that consistently deliver quality products.
• Ensure successful product launches by working cross-functionally with marketing, merchant success, sales, operations, legal, and compliance teams.

Job Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in product management, with demonstrated experience in successfully building and shipping impactful products
• Experience building payment solutions in the fintech industry
• Strong strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities
• You have a good understanding of how software is built and operated and experience in building technical software products
• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs
• Excellent ability to bring clarity and focus to complex and ambiguous situations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate and lead teams – Product roles bring responsibility without direct authority. We’re looking for leaders who can motivate and earn the trust of stakeholders and teams with a collaborative approach.
• Curiosity and drive
• Great attention to detail and cares about building quality products
• Experience working with both qualitative customer insights and quantitative data to inform decisions. You’ve conducted user research, and a/b tests and have worked closely with product analysts.

Benefit

• Health insurance
• Sponsored and tailored training
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time-off
• Flexible work style
• Low-interest loans
• Group Life Insurance
• Access to up to four therapy sessions monthly
• Day off on your birthday 🎂 🎁 🎉
• Employee interest groups that provide supportive communities within Kora
• Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!

How To Apply

We recognise imposter syndrome is real – any candidate who does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.

Interested and qualified candidates should click on APPLY NOW to fill the provided form.