Product Manager

Union54 has developed a number of tools to propel African commerce forward. Our customers are financial technology companies across Africa. Together with our customers, we’ve issued millions of debit cards to African consumers from almost every country on the continent. Those cards have gone on to be used for hundreds of millions of dollars across different merchants from various industries and locations. In the process, we’ve helped our fintech customers earn revenue in the millions of dollars.

Building on the lessons learnt and feedback from our customers, we are developing our second product. The Technical Product Manager will work directly with the leadership team to ideate, lead technical development, and launch of our second product.

We are a small and dynamic company with a strong focus on personal development, initiative and individual ownership. We are well funded by the likes of Y-Combinator, Tiger Global and incredible angel investors from all around the world.

Required Skills:

1. Lead the ideation, technical development, and launch of products and new product features;
2. Drive product development;
3. Work hands-on and lead designers and engineers to implement and build;

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Experience building and shipping applications within a large-scale, ambiguous domain;
2. Experience in technical architecture of mobile applications;
3. Experience driving projects with cross-functional colleagues;
4. Experience of going through a full product lifecycle, integrating customer feedback into product requirements, driving prioritisation and pre/post-launch execution;
5. Experience leading a cross-functional team of world-class multi-cultural individuals;
6. Experience developing products, technologies and platforms with a large userbase;
7. Gathering requirements across diverse areas and users, and converting and developing them into a product solution and design;
8. Technical experience with analytical tools, methodologies, and design;
9. Displaying leadership, organisational and execution skills;
10. Proven communication skills.