Hybrid Senior Product Manager

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About the role

  • Senior Product Manager at Cellulant managing product strategy for B2B payments in Africa. Leading product discovery, strategy, team empowerment, and market shaping initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • End-to-End Product Discovery: Lead the full discovery cycle-from opportunity identification through assumption testing to validated solutions—across an entire product line (e.g., Online Collections, Payouts, or Messaging). Coach team members in discovery best practices.
  • Product Strategy Ownership: Define and communicate a clear product strategy for your product line, grounded in market insights, customer evidence, and business objectives. Ensure the strategy connects the company vision to team-level execution and the shared product vision.
  • Empowered Team Leadership: Champion the empowered product team model by ensuring your team owns meaningful problems and is accountable for business results. Remove obstacles and shield the team from feature-factory pressure.
  • Cross-Product Coordination: Collaborate with peer PMs and engineering leads across product lines to identify dependencies, shared platform opportunities, and integration points between products.
  • Stakeholder & Executive Engagement: Build deep trust with senior stakeholders, commercial teams, and key customers. Translate complex technical and market dynamics into clear strategic narratives for executive audiences.
  • Outcome Architecture: Design product-level OKR frameworks that cascade from company objectives. Define leading and lagging indicators to keep the team focused on outcomes rather than output.
  • Talent Development: Mentor and coach junior PMs informally, modelling strong discovery habits, customer empathy, and outcome-oriented thinking. Raise the overall product craft of the team.
  • Market Shaping: Influence the competitive landscape by identifying whitespace opportunities in the African payment landscape. Contribute to thought leadership, partnerships, and ecosystem development.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of product management experience, with at least 2 years at a senior level owning a full product line or platform area.
  • Proven track record of defining and executing product strategy that delivered measurable business outcomes (revenue growth, retention improvement, market expansion).
  • Deep expertise in product discovery methods: opportunity solution trees, assumption mapping, rapid prototyping, and quantitative experimentation at scale.
  • Experience leading empowered product teams where the team owned problems, not feature backlogs, and was accountable for results.
  • Strong B2B product experience, ideally in fintech, payments, or enterprise SaaS, with demonstrated understanding of B2B sales cycles, procurement, and customer success dynamics.
  • Advanced analytical capabilities, including comfort designing experiments, interpreting statistical results, and building data pipelines for product insights.
  • Exceptional communication and influence skills; proven ability to align executives, engineering leadership, and commercial teams around a product vision.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, MSC, or advanced degree in a relevant field is a plus.

Benefits

  • Generous personal time off
  • Medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting)

Job title

Senior Product Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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