Senior Product Manager - Core Banking

Job description

**Yassir** is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in **45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa**. It is backed (~**$200M in funding**) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world. We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally. Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values. ### Responsibilities: - Co-create, coordinate, and facilitate your team's product discovery process - Work with cross-functional collaborators, such as engineers, product designers, and marketers, to validate product ideas through a variety of product discovery frameworks and methods - Work closely with users and stakeholders to understand their needs and objectives, and to gain a deep understanding of the problem space through workshops and research - Conduct secondary and primary research, prototyping, and experiments (e.g. defining and understanding of proto-personas, customer journeys, customer interviews) - Translate customer insights into prioritized product ideas or experiments to be tested on the market and with customers - Synthesize data to make strategic evidence-based recommendations founded on the business, market, and customer needs - Facilitate and actively collaborate in the development of business models, go 2 market plans, and early-traction tactics for products to be launched in collaboration with our clients, the product team, and other experts (e.g. marketing) - Facilitate agile ceremonies in order to deliver a product or product initiatives in a timely manner and agreed on the quality‍ ### Requirments - Experience with banking, ledger or technical fintech experience. - Minimum of 4 years of proven experience in product management with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or Payment provider - A track record of launching consumer-facing digital products and services (B2B or B2C) - Experience working with scale-ups - Ability to create and execute a customer discovery process to gather pains and opportunities - Ability to design and run various ideation workshops - Presentation skills and storytelling - Understanding of how to integrate analytics into a product for generating useful information - Understanding of the importance of branding and when it's important and when it's not - A strong understanding of value proposition design and what makes for successful venture - Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence stakeholders at all levels - Knowledge of modern development practices like agile and scrum - General understanding of the technical aspects in digital product development with the ability to work closely with technical engineers and get the best out of them - Strong design sense with the ability to collaborate with designers to produce great work - Ability to manage stakeholders across the business and clients - Passion for digital products and human-centered design - Dependable, enthusiastic, curious with great energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - Fluent English. ### Nice to have skills: - Knowledge of lean startup techniques and what a good MVP should be across B2B and B2C - Technical, consulting, or design background - Understanding of metrics and how to define them for different companies and products - Understanding of behavioral psychology and how to make products with high engagement and stickiness - Understanding of the growth process across Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue