Are you looking to build a vibrant tech career within a bourgeoning fintech company? Kippa might be the place you want to pitch to. They’re are hiring for the role of a Product Designer as the year closes out. We have an article on building a career in product management here, if you are just starting out.
Click here to Apply for the Product Manager role at Kippa.
About Kippa
Kippa is on a mission to help small businesses in Africa run more sustainably and profitably. Today, small businesses in Africa transact over $3.5T annually, more than 90% of which is in cash. Their first tool helps all small businesses record their sales, expense, and credit transactions in an app, allowing them to get 3x faster repayments on debts outstanding.
About the role
They are looking to hire a Senior Product Manager who will;
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Own & Drive the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and growth for one or more of the products within a vertical at Kippa
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Own & Drive the user experience on Android & IOS for this product. Understand the user’s needs (both spoken and tacit) and identify current gaps in the system.
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Ship products with Engineering and Design based on the agile framework.
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Evaluate the impact of your changes by analyzing data and sharing insights with the broader team -“Eat your own dog food” meaning you should be a power user of your product and know it better than anyone else in the company.
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Help the Business team define clear differentiated value propositions that they can offer to customers/merchants/aggregators etc. in the market
What do you need to be considered successful?
You will be responsible for managing the roadmap, pricing, packaging, and documentation of their product. You will also be responsible for the following:
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Launching enhancements on existing product flows/adding features which
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Improves discovery
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Improves usage of the feature by improving UI/ UX or otherwise
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Improves overall retention of the feature/ product
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Monetization
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Launching and driving the adoption of new products which achieve one or more of the following goals
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Monetization
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Overall Activation & Retention of Users on the Kippa or Kippa platforms
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Defining product strategy and roadmap, and maintaining and grooming the product backlog with consensus from all stakeholders
How important are you to the bottom line?
As a Senior Product Manager at Kippa, you’ll be a cross-functional ninja interfacing across almost every function of the business (e.g. designers, engineers, marketing, etc) to conceptualize, build and maintain successful products that ultimately delight our users
Biggest problem-solving duties on the job
You will seamlessly weave between cross-functional teams in order to build and grow a wide range of products with a growth mindset while being able to communicate product vision to non-technical stakeholders.
What do you need to have done in your career?
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Has the capability to drive projects to fruition; no matter how complex or ambiguous the environment is.
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Thrives in a cross-functional and fast-paced, startup environment. Is not afraid of rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty with minute details.
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Sweats the small things – font types, alignment, UI, UX, etc – you get their drift!
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Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills, with the ability to evolve product strategy based on customer research, data, and industry trends.
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Stays on top of what is happening in the industry molds the product to make it future proof
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Articulate communication skills and great stakeholder management
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Exceptional problem-solving skills based on ‘first principles’ thinking
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Multi-tasking abilities
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Data-Driven decision making
Cultural competencies
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You work well with people of different backgrounds, identities, values, and cultures
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You listen well, seek to understand, and respond with empathy
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You give and take constructive feedback to and from colleagues at any level
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Honesty and Integrity as a watchword
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You are extremely curious and love working collaboratively
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A knack for continuous growth, learning, and knowledge sharing
What do you stand to gain?
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A nearly unlimited room for career growth with support along the way
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The exciting opportunity to be part of building something extraordinary
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Competitive Salary
Interested? Click here to apply.