Technical Project Manager

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Nairobi
Mid level
Payments
The Role
The Technical Project Manager will lead partner integration at Thunes, driving projects from analysis to go-live and overseeing post-delivery monitoring. Responsibilities include providing technical guidance, coordinating with sales and delivery teams, securing technical commitments from customers, and improving internal tools. The role may require travel and flexibility in working hours to accommodate global partners.
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About Thunes

Thunes is a global, fast-growing, and innovative Fintech scale-up that uses technology to disrupt and transform the existing financial system.

We have a strong Mission: to create a better global payments network, and a great Purpose: to connect the world to economic opportunities and address systemic inequality when it comes to financial services.

We are proud to power payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses and work with some of the amazing global brands - from Gig Economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia's super-app Grab, to global Fintech leaders such as PayPal and Remitly. 

Our Products help to drastically simplify the Payment integration experience for our customers: with a single, simple connection, businesses and consumers can send payments to – and get paid in – every corner of the world. Instantly. 

Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Barcelona, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Miami, San Francisco, Dubai, Nairobi, Manila and Hong Kong.

Context of the role

As part of the Solution Delivery team, this role will bring you great opportunities to work on various projects, collaborating with a diverse range of partners and teams.

The Solution Delivery team is responsible for supporting the integration of partners within the Thunes Cross-Border Payment platform. Processing millions of transactions per month and interconnecting hundreds of partners from all around the world, Thunes is continuously growing its coverage and footprint in the industry. A career with Thunes provides invaluable experience in an exciting and rapidly expanding market and an opportunity to be part of a truly global company with various offices worldwide and a workforce that includes dozens of different nationalities.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead and drive the partner integration from the analysis phase though the integration design until go live and post-delivery monitoring
  • Provide technical guidance on the Thunes platform, the required integration, testing, best practices and standards. Recommend solutions that optimize value for both the customer and Thunes.
  • Coordinate closely with sales, sales support, and delivery teams to align solution design with customers’ business requirements
  • Secure from customer technical resource commitments needed to ensure a deal’s “technical close.
  • Drive improvements for internal monitoring, reporting and operational tools and processes
  • Provides training to the sales team to enhance their product knowledge, technical acumen, and technical sales skills
  • Document your knowledge and details around specific partners´ set up. 

The role may require the flexibility to adapt to other time zones and to travel abroad occasionally.

Required Qualifications/Experience

  • Fluency in English. French and local African languages are a strong plus.
  • IT/Engineering degree or equivalent
  • 3+ years of experience in working with partner integration projects.
  • Prior experience with Fintech/ Ecommerce/ Payments ideally in project management roles.
  • Familiarity with RestAPI and Json XML.
  • Ability to communicate with partners at business and technical level including software engineers.
  • Motivated and focused self-starter with leadership skills who can multi-task, work independently or within a team.
  • Strong organisational, presentation, and communication skills. Experience of working in globally distributed teams

Sound like you? Apply today!

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Restapi
The Company
129 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Thunes is a B2B cross-border payments network for emerging markets. Our global platform provides seamless transfer of funds between payment systems in more than 100 countries and 60 currencies. We enable mobile wallet providers, technology companies, PSPs, money transfer operators and banks to make financial services accessible worldwide.
We offer four key payment solutions:
•Remittance processing, which fosters worldwide financial inclusion
•Mass payouts, which support globalisation and the sharing economy •Virtual Accounts, which help corporates around the world boost their revenue
•Business payments, which enable businesses to trade easily across borders Since Thunes was established in 2016, we’ve processed real-time transactions for millions of people across the world.
Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Shanghai and New York.

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