Job Title: Product Manager Needed at Kuda Bank

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet. We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.

We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices.

We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world’s most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager

About the Role

• Play an integral role in building Kuda’s growth team.
• Work closely with the Head of Growth to plan and drive our growth initiatives.
• Develop an experimentation & optimisation roadmap that aligns with Growth OKRs.
• Define methods and metrics for identifying success and failure.
• Champion the use of behavioral analytics within the product team.
• Perform quantitative and qualitative research to guide experimentation.
• Ship high-quality MVP products that allow us to test our hypotheses.
• Capture and communicate insights from growth experiments.
• Partner with the cross-functional growth team to improve AARRR metrics.

More specifically:

• Embrace the testing process: form and validate data-driven hypotheses for accelerating customer acquisition, activation, retention, referral and revenue.
• Refine and improve the product using best of breed analytics tools.
• Inform product decisions with quantitative and qualitative data on user behaviour and experimentation, including a/b testing, survey data and usability studies.
• Prioritise features, build consensus, and coordinate with a team of engineers, designers, and analysts to ship high-quality experiences.
• Work closely with our core product team to ensure synergy in workflow and jtbd.
• Write specs and create wireframes to communicate your plans.
• Work with Growth Engineering to create and build a sustainable release cadence.
• Partner with the Growth Marketing and Analytics teams to personalise our acquisition flow.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Professional certifications are a plus

Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in growth product management.
• Experience in developing, executing, and testing different growth experiments.
• You will have a strong understanding of the mobile ecosystem.
• Ability to conceptualise, manage, and prioritise multiple projects.
• Experience taking on products and using analytics & research to grow them.
• Experience using data analysis to support growth plans.
• 3+ years of experience in growth product management.
• Experience in developing, executing, and testing different growth experiments.
• You will have a strong understanding of the mobile ecosystem.
• Ability to conceptualise, manage, and prioritise multiple projects.
• Experience taking on products and using analytics & research to grow them.
• Experience using data analysis to support growth plans.

Nice to have:

• Worked within the Fintech space.
• Knowledge of African markets.
• An obsession with user experience.
• A desire to build something great.
• Worked within the Fintech space.
• Knowledge of African markets.
• An obsession with user experience.
• A desire to build something great.

Personal Attributes:

• Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion
• Have a strong desire for learning and growth.
• Have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Are a critical thinker and possess problem-solving skills
• Are a team player
• Have good time-management skills
• Have great interpersonal and communication skills
• Can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment

  Benefits
  At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• Pension
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Group life insurance
• Health insurance
• L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option