Head of Product

Summary

Join Yassir, a leading super app in the Maghreb region expanding into new markets, as we revolutionize daily services. We offer on-demand services and are introducing financial services to empower users digitally. This role involves driving product strategy, developing a mass-market customer proposition, and leading a team of product managers. You will be responsible for defining and executing the product roadmap, prioritizing features, and fostering a data-driven culture. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in consumer mobile app and fintech product management, particularly in payments and e-wallets.

Requirements

• Have a strong background consumer mobile app and/or fintech product management experience
• Experience in payments (acceptance and payouts), e-wallets, or prepaid cards is a must
• Product team leadership experience
• Achieved success delivering consumer facing products that drive real user value and business financial goals
• Leveraged both user experience and AB testing to find product/market fit
• You create structure out of ambiguity and have a pragmatic “can do” and “make it happen” attitude in a collaborative way

Responsibilities

• Driving product strategy, product roadmap and product development
• Developing a mass market customer proposition
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs of the audience
• Align stakeholders, direct the product roadmap, prioritise features, build consensus, and coordinate product schedules with wider business
• Defining, hiring, coaching and mentoring a full team of product managers
• Foster a culture of testing, data-driven decision making, and accountability for metrics and results
• Staying hands on – the role will come with line management of product managers but in the early days it’ll just be you

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer finance, business finance is a plus
• Managing teams across different countries is a a plus
• Language skills: French is an advantage