Responsibilities
- Driving product strategy, product roadmap and product development
- Developing a mass market customer proposition
- Develop a deep understanding of the needs of the audience
- Align stakeholders, direct the product roadmap, prioritise features, build consensus, and coordinate product schedules with wider business
- Defining, hiring, coaching and mentoring a full team of product managers
- Foster a culture of testing, data-driven decision making, and accountability for metrics and results
- Staying hands on – the role will come with line management of product managers but in the early days it’ll just be you
Requirements
- Have a strong background consumer mobile app and/or fintech product management experience
- Experience in payments (acceptance and payouts), e-wallets, or prepaid cards is a must
- Experience in consumer finance, business finance is a plus
- Product team leadership experience
- Achieved success delivering consumer facing products that drive real user value and business financial goals
- Leveraged both user experience and AB testing to find product/market fit
- You create structure out of ambiguity and have a pragmatic “can do” and “make it happen” attitude in a collaborative way
- Managing teams across different countries is a a plus
- Language skills: French is an advantage
Skills Required
- Strong background in consumer mobile app and/or fintech product management
- Experience in payments (acceptance and payouts), e-wallets, or prepaid cards
- Experience in consumer finance or business finance
- Product team leadership experience, including hiring, coaching and mentoring product managers
- Proven track record delivering consumer-facing products that drive user value and financial goals
- Experience leveraging user experience research and A/B testing to find product/market fit
- Ability to create structure from ambiguity and a pragmatic, 'make it happen' attitude
- Experience managing teams across different countries
- French language skills
What We Do
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
