Senior Product Manager

Cellulant

About the Company

Job Description

Required Skills

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the full discovery cycle from opportunity identification through assumption testing to validated solutions across an entire product line.
• Coach team members in discovery best practices.
• Define and communicate a clear product strategy for your product line, grounded in market insights, customer evidence, and business objectives.
• Ensure the strategy connects the company vision to team-level execution and the shared product vision.
• Champion the empowered product team model by ensuring your team owns meaningful problems and is accountable for business results.
• Remove obstacles and shield the team from feature-factory pressure.
• Collaborate with peer PMs and engineering leads across product lines to identify dependencies, shared platform opportunities, and integration points.
• Build deep trust with senior stakeholders, commercial teams, and key customers.
• Translate complex technical and market dynamics into clear strategic narratives for executive audiences.
• Design product-level OKR frameworks that cascade from company objectives.
• Define leading and lagging indicators to keep the team focused on outcomes rather than output.
• Mentor and coach junior PMs informally, modeling strong discovery habits, customer empathy, and outcome-oriented thinking.
• Raise the overall product craft of the team.
• Influence the competitive landscape by identifying whitespace opportunities in the African payment landscape.
• Contribute to thought leadership, partnerships, and ecosystem development.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of product management experience, with at least 2 years at a senior level owning a full product line or platform area.
• Proven track record of defining and executing product strategy that delivered measurable business outcomes (revenue growth, retention improvement, market expansion).
• Deep expertise in product discovery methods: opportunity solution trees, assumption mapping, rapid prototyping, and quantitative experimentation at scale.
• Experience leading empowered product teams where the team owned problems, not feature backlogs, and was accountable for results.
• Strong B2B product experience, ideally in fintech, payments, or enterprise SaaS, with demonstrated understanding of B2B sales cycles, procurement, and customer success dynamics.
• Advanced analytical capabilities, including comfort designing experiments, interpreting statistical results, and building data pipelines for product insights.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills; proven ability to align executives, engineering leadership, and commercial teams around a product vision.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• MBA, MSC, or advanced degree in a relevant field is a plus.
• Direct experience building payments, collections, or messaging products for African or emerging markets is preferred.
• Deep familiarity with Cagan’s product operating model and a track record of implementing empowered-team practices is preferred.
• Experience with platform and API product management, including developer experience, versioning strategy, and ecosystem partnerships is preferred.
• Experience with GTM planning for existing and zero-to-PMF products is preferred.
• Track record of mentoring or coaching other product managers is preferred.
• Experience operating in multi-country, multi-currency, and multi-regulatory environments is preferred.
• Background in or strong technical understanding of payment infrastructure (card processing, mobile money, bank integrations, USSD) is preferred.
• Published thought leadership, conference talks, or community contributions in product management or African fintech is preferred.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary benchmarked against market data.
• Generous personal time off.
• Medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting).
• Individualized career paths for growth and development.
• Supportive and delivery-oriented work environment.
• Opportunity to solve Africa's digital economy challenges.

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Posted Date

April 13, 2026