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Senior Product Manager

M-KOPA

M-KOPA

Product
London, UK · Cape Town, South Africa · Johannesburg, South Africa · Lagos, Nigeria · Kenya · Johannesburg, South Africa · Cape Town, South Africa · kigali, rwanda · Nairobi, Kenya · London, UK · Uganda
Posted on Jul 30, 2024

Working as a Senior Product Manager in our Retention Group offers the chance to collaborate with very talented groups of inhouse Engineers, Designers and Data Scientists solving real world problems that have a huge scale of impact across Africa.

It's an opportunity to work in a company where progress and humility are valued as highly as technical excellence? At M-KOPA we use the latest technologies and tools to build fantastic customer experiences with a socially and environmentally conscious mission that echoes throughout the organisation.

Retention are responsible for retaining our customers by continuously providing them with life changing products such as cash loans, insurance, and buy-now-pay-later products.

  • Digital Financial Services – We are dedicated to offering our customers financial services, such as cash loans, through our M-KOPA App and across our key markets.

  • Eligibility -Collaborate with data scientists to implement real-time eligibility decisioning, enabling M-KOPA to determine if a customer is eligible for financial services.

  • Identity - Responsible for ensuring M-KOPA users can seamlessly and securely authenticate across our suite of apps.

  • Fraud - working to identify Fraud and malicious Intent whilst protecting users.

  • Customer Interactions - Responsible for direct interactions with customers, including the native Android app, SMS, and USSD services.

We have a data-driven approach to the incremental improvements of our products and a focus towards excellence.

We foster a very low-ego environment at M-KOPA, a place where diversity, innovation and collaboration sit comfortably with commercial growth and social impact. The team prizes psychological safety above all. We have a Discovery first approach. Meaning you get to make very clear cases for prioritisation of the solutions we develop.

Recognised twice by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing company (2022 and 2023) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 , we've served over 3 million customers, unlocking $1 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.

At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.

Your application should include;

  • Evidence of Data Driven Product Development leading a squad

  • Successful collaborations with cross-functional team members

  • Strong Customer Data Management experience

  • Good Analytics and Dashboard skills

  • Achievements building and delivering B2C Fintech Products

  • Success in one of our African markets

  • Expectations of travel

  • Mentoring exp

Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.

If the above is of interest to you, please apply

Our hiring process is as much about us selling to you as the other way round. Our hiring process is a series of meetings as follows;

Recruiter call 30 mins - an introduction to the process and M-KOPA

Hiring Team call 45 mins - High level introductions

Presentation done at home

Task Deep Dive 90 mins - This is where most of the magic happens.

Pre-Final 45 mins - meeting some peers and stakeholders

Final Interview – 30 mins