Product Manager, Fraud and Consumer Safety

Summary

Join NALA's Fraud and consumer safety team and play a pivotal role in protecting our customers and company from fraud and abuse. You will lead the product development process, from initial research and planning to launch and beyond. This role demands strong technical skills, experience in fintech or payments, and a deep understanding of user-centered design. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, engage directly with customers, and contribute to the company's overall business strategy. The position offers a competitive benefits package, including generous paid time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities. If you're passionate about building secure and user-friendly financial products, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Requirements

• Strong technical background due to the strong technical nature of the products being built
• Proven experience shipping a breadth of high-quality consumer product features at a Fintech or Payments company
• You have 5+ years of product management experience shipping world-class products at fast-growing companies and have had demonstrable engagement with Design, Engineering and Leadership teams
• You are fluent in SQL and have strong software engineering experience to interrogate product data yourself and make good decisions. We understand that perfect data is not available but knowing what pragmatic assumptions can be made to drive reasonable decisions is very important
• You have enough engineering context to know a bad MVP from a good one and have experience with product discovery methodologies
• You have strong empathy for customers and an unwillingness to compromise on user-centered design
• Experience in working with third parties, whether it’s evaluating APIs and capabilities, mapping out integration plans or evaluating different technology options

Responsibilities

• Bring a sense of urgency to your work and inspire the team to unite under your leadership to deliver an incredible product
• Take ownership of the consumer product to drive the product and business-planning process across cross-functional teams of the company
• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
• Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates NALA and its features across primary market segments
• Collaborate with design, engineering, research, legal and compliance teams to refine your plan and execute it effectively
• You’ll be speaking to customers on a near daily basis to understand needs and ultimately sticking our ethos of “customer first, always”
• Develop an understanding of our users at a deep level and gauge customer needs to propose prospective solutions
• Define initial product proposition and go-to-market strategies for new expansion markets
• Meeting with the C-suite to discuss financial data and ways to improve business operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Built out fraud detection systems
• Understand equally the customers needs from a UK, African and Asian perspective
• In addition to English, you can also speak French or Swahili

Benefits

• 35 Days Off : Enjoy an amazing 35 days of holidays to unwind and explore
• Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month
• Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
• Global Workspace : Get access to WeWork locations worldwide
• Learning Budget : Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development
• Hybrid Working : We work in the office three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
• Sarabi : Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team
• Monthly Socials : Join fun social events every month for great times
• Free Coffee : Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips