
Senior Product Manager – Payments, Financial Platforms
Duplo USA Corporation
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lagos • Nigeria
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About the role
- Define and own the payments product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap aligned with company growth and global expansion goals.
- Act as the Payments Value Stream owner, accountable for outcomes across acquiring, collections, settlement, and integrations.
- Lead Card Acquiring products across Visa and Mastercard, including authorization flows, settlement, chargebacks, and compliance.
- Own collections and disbursement workflows across local and international payment methods.
- Design and optimize payment orchestration, routing, and failover strategies.
- Ensure products meet Nigerian, African, and international payment ecosystem requirements.
- Partner closely with Compliance and Risk teams to embed PCI-DSS, KYC, AML, and regulatory controls into product flows.
- Lead deep discovery: customer interviews, merchant insights, market analysis, and competitive benchmarking.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the Nigerian fintech landscape.
- Translate business and customer needs into PRDs, user stories, API contracts, and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with engineering on solution design, sprint planning, and technical trade-offs.
- Own backlog prioritization to ensure focus on customer impact, revenue, and risk reduction.
- Drive user acceptance testing, release readiness, and post-launch iterations.
- Lead ERP and accounting system integrations to automate reconciliation, reporting, and financial workflows.
- Collaborate with Platform teams to ensure all payment capabilities are API-first and scalable.
- Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, and Growth teams to define positioning, pricing implications, and launch plans.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6-8 years of Product Management experience, with deep focus on payments or fintech platforms.
- Hands-on experience delivering Card Acquiring products with Visa & Mastercard.
- Strong understanding of collections, settlements, FX, and cross-border payments.
- Demonstrated experience in the Nigerian and African payments ecosystem, with exposure to international markets.
- Experience integrating with ERP and accounting systems.
- Proven track record of scaling customer-facing financial products.
- Strong payments domain expertise (acquiring, routing, reconciliation, settlement).
- Excellent analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- High ownership mindset.
- Comfort working in regulated, high-risk environments.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
payments product managementCard Acquiringpayment orchestrationAPI contractsuser acceptance testingfinancial workflowsreconciliationsettlementchargebackscompliance
Soft skills
analytical skillsdata-driven decision-makingstakeholder managementcommunication skillsownership mindsetstrategic thinkingexecution skills
Certifications
PCI-DSSKYCAML