IT Product Manager at AB Microfinance Bank

AB Microfinance Bank, is a nationwide microfinance bank that holds a license from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Its head office is in Lagos, and it has branches throughout the states of Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, and Anambra.

Title: IT Product Manager

Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Strategic leadership to drive and support business growth and revenues, development and deployment of technology for all stakeholders, acceleration of product/service delivery, innovation and implementation of technology solutions at optimized costs.

Role Description

• Actively contribute to developing the company’s strategy for using technological resources, aligned to business goals
• Prepare businesses to react, adapt and evolve with resilience and success.
• Ensure the organization is in an ‘always future-ready technology mode.
• Strong domain knowledge and business acumen to ensure company’s technologies are used appropriately.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
• Prioritize opportunity areas that can be solved given the organizational capacity and feasibility.
• Create product concepts to achieve the goal of business solutions for our customers.
• Refine, validate and identify top product concepts using available data.
• Rapidly test and iterate identified product concept among users.
• Create prototypes of the successfully tested product concepts.
• Translate insights into a product strategy from driving consensus internally, design, engineering, operations, forging required partnerships, and developing success metrics.
• Work with operations subject matter experts and use a broad range of sources to develop innovative functionality.
• Design processes, workflows, and functional components to improve efficiency.
• Work with designers, developers (both locally and remotely) and subject matter experts to get project requirements well-scoped, designed and built.
• Map out talent requirements for the product.
• Closely cooperate with internal teams such as business operations and sales, and e-channels to launch the product.
• Establish product delivery timelines in close collaboration with internal teams and keep stakeholders updated on.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, systems, and infrastructure for competitive advantage in the current, dynamic digital finance ecosystem in Nigeria.
• Manage all technology assets with the right teams to ensure optimum return of investment using the ITIL framework — including availability, quality, performance, capacity management, financial management, change management, risk management, incident and problem management, and license management.
• Build payments landscape, and upgrade plan /roadmap to support business growth and innovation.

Necessary Experience, Skills, Knowledge and Technical Proficiency

• Minimum educational qualification: B.Sc. / HND in any related discipline with cognate experience
• 7+ years of proven experience as a product manager, Developer, IT infrastructure systems engineer or similar leadership role, preferably in the Fintech, Banking, or software development industry.
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy.
• Understanding of budgets and business-planning would be an additional asset.

Deadline: 23rd June, 2023.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the position as the subject of the email.