Senior Manager, Vertical Products and Innovation
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About the Role
Optasia seeks a Senior Manager to lead product innovation and vertical strategy for its fintech platform. The role involves market research, product design, backlog management, and stakeholder coordination to drive financial inclusion across Africa.
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Responsibilities
- Assist on market research and identification of distribution partners in Africa
- Discover underserved segments and identify new asset classes
- Explore regulatory or market shifts and analyze competitor product gaps
- Define features, manage backlog, and own CR prioritization
- Support initial product roll outs and integrations
- Create detailed use cases, business requirements, and marketing requirements
- Conduct feasibility studies and write business plans
- Lead product design, development and release process for assigned products
- Coordinate collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality
- Monitor developments and dynamics of the fintech credit space
- Evaluate distribution partners and define products that fit their needs
- Prepare detailed business requirement specifications and product requirement specifications
Requirements
- At least 5 years experience in Product Management or Large Account Management
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in business, engineering, or related field
- Ability to translate complex technical specifications into clear user and commercial benefits
- Excellent PowerPoint and presentation skills
- Facilitating and supportive attitude with creative mindset
- Excellent knowledge of English language
- Ability to cope with fast changing technologies
- Capability of integration in an international/multi cultural environment
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Company Overview
- Optasia is a fully enabled B2B2X financial technology platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement and collection.
- We are committed to enabling financial inclusion for all.
What you will do
- Assist on market research and identification of distribution partners in Africa
- Discover underserved segments
- Identify new asset classes
- Explore regulatory or market shifts
- Analyze competitor product gaps
- Define features
- Manage backlog
- Own CR prioritization
- Support initial product roll outs and integrations
- Create detailed use cases, business requirements, and marketing requirements
- Conduct feasibility studies & write business plans
- Lead product design, development and release process for assigned products
What you will bring
- At least 5 years experience Product Management/Large Account Management experience
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in any related course (business degree, engineering)
- Ability to translate complex technical Specifications into clear user and commercial benefits
- Excellent PowerPoint and presentation skills
- Must have a facilitating and supportive attitude and a creative mindset
- Excellent knowledge of English language
- Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in application developments
- Capability of integration in an international/multi cultural environment
What we offer
- Competitive remuneration package
- Extra day off on your birthday
- Performance based bonus scheme
- Comprehensive private healthcare insurance
- All the tech gear you need to work smart
Optasia's Perks
- Be a part of a multicultural working environment
- Meet a very unique and promising business and industry
- Gain insights for tomorrow market's foreground
- A solid career path within our working family is ready for you
- Continuous training and access to online training platforms
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