Senior Product Manager (Financial Services) (f/m/x)

<b><span>Yassir</span></b><span> is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in </span><b><span>45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa</span></b><span>. It is backed (~</span><b><span>$200M in funding</span></b><span>) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world. </span><span>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. </span><span>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.</span><br/><span>About the role</span><br/>We are in search of a talented and motivated individual to join our team and start working on all sorts of interesting financial services products.<br/>‍As a Product Manager at Yassir you will be responsible for driving product initiatives from inception through execution. In this role, you will collaborate closely with designers, engineers, analysts, and other cross-functional team members within the organization to ensure that our products amaze and delight our users.<br/>You would be a leader who works in a highly collaborative environment, focused on building products in a lean way, as well as building strong relationships with your stakeholders and other product teams. If you like working in a product culture where teams value rapid testing and learning, then this is a great opportunity for you. <h3>About your role as Product Manager</h3> <ul> <li>Co-create, coordinate, and facilitate your team's product discovery process</li><li>Work with cross-functional collaborators, such as engineers, product designers, and marketers, to validate product ideas through a variety of product discovery frameworks and methods</li><li>Work closely with users and stakeholders to understand their needs and objectives, and to gain a deep understanding of the problem space through workshops and research</li><li>Conduct secondary and primary research, prototyping, and experiments (e.g. defining and understanding of proto-personas, customer journeys, customer interviews)</li><li>Translate customer insights into prioritized product ideas or experiments to be tested on the market and with customers</li><li>Synthesize data to make strategic evidence-based recommendations founded on the business, market, and customer needs</li><li>Facilitate and actively collaborate in the development of business models, go2market plans, and early-traction tactics for products to be launched in collaboration with our clients, the product team, and other experts (e.g. marketing)</li><li>Facilitate agile ceremonies in order to deliver a product or product initiatives in a timely manner and agreed on the quality‍</li></ul> <h3>About your experience</h3> <ul> <li>Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in product management with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or Payment provider</li><li>A track record of launching consumer-facing digital products and services (B2B or B2C)</li><li>Experience working with scale-ups</li><li>Ability to create and execute a customer discovery process to gather pains and opportunities</li><li>Ability to design and run various ideation workshops</li><li>Presentation skills and storytelling</li><li>Understanding of how to integrate analytics into a product for generating useful information</li><li>Understanding of the importance of branding and when it's important and when it's not</li><li>A strong understanding of value proposition design and what makes for a successful venture</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence stakeholders at all levels</li><li>Knowledge of modern development practices like agile and scrum</li><li>General understanding of the technical aspects in digital product development with the ability to work closely with technical engineers and get the best out of them</li><li>Strong design sense with the ability to collaborate with designers to produce great work</li><li>Ability to manage stakeholders across the business and clients</li><li>Passion for digital products and human-centered design</li><li>Dependable, enthusiastic, curious with great energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment</li><li>Fluent English</li></ul> <h3>Nice to have</h3> <ul> <li>Knowledge of lean startup techniques and what a good MVP should be across B2B and B2C</li><li>Technical, consulting, or design background</li><li>Understanding of metrics and how to define them for different companies and products</li><li>Understanding of behavioral psychology and how to make products with high engagement and stickiness</li><li>Unde