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. We are changing the world our way.
We are seeking for enthusiastic professionals, with energy, who are results driven and have can-do attitude, who want to be part of a team of likeminded individuals who are delivering solutions in an innovative and exciting environment.
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
- Coordinate the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from customers and prospects, define MVP
- Monitor the developments and the dynamics of the fintech credit space
- Monitor the introduction of new credit product propositions
- Evaluate distribution partners and define products that fits their needs
- Prepare detailed business requirement specifications
- Prepare product requirement specifications (for new product ideas)
- Define GTM strategy
- Write/edit user manual, sales support documentation, proposal templates and other collateral
- Draft contract templates in conjunction with the legal team
- Engage with multiple stakeholders within our company to put together all the pieces of the product puzzle
- Train commercial and operations team on new product and new distribution partners
- Monitor and optimize the new products & partnerships during the 1st year of operations
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
Why you should apply
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
Skills Required
- At least 5 years experience Product Management or Large Account Management
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a related field (business, engineering)
- Ability to translate complex technical specifications into clear user and commercial benefits
- Excellent PowerPoint and presentation skills
- Facilitating and supportive attitude and creative mindset
- Excellent knowledge of English
- Ability to cope with fast changing application development technologies
- Ability to integrate in an international/multi-cultural environment
What We Do
We deliver Optasia, the AI Platform enabling financial access for the next billion customers. We are changing the world our way. Α versatile, data-driven B2B2X (business-to-business-to-customers and SMEs) financial technology platform for MNOs, mobile wallet operators and financial institutions, which provides them with accurate credit scoring for responsible financing decision-making. We support intelligent credit decisions, enable a broad range of financial services development and drive successful business models. All with ease, through our AI-led fully-automated decisioning algorithm, which allows us to efficiently make millions of decisions on financing, based on sophisticated data analysis. Thanks to our technology and network we provide powerful flywheel effects with repeatable and scalable growth levers, to help our partners grow and enable financial access to retail & SME customers across numerous markets. Operating since 2012 as Channel VAS and expanded in more than 35 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia and LATAM with focus in emerging markets, Optasia Enabling credit decisions for an average of 116 million customers a month and had more than 980 million addressable subscribers in 2023, continuing to expand to new markets globally. Optasia has been chosen as an investment opportunity by top firms such as Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital in 2017, and Ethos, a leading South African investment company in late 2018. The company also obtained ISO 27001 Certification in late 2021. Founded as Channel VAS in 2012, we became Optasia in 2022, incorporating a brand identity that more broadly reflects our capabilities.
