Head of Product – Platforms
Kuda
Ruby on Rails
Head of Product – Credit
Kuda
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cape Town • 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Lead
About the role
- The Head of Product, Credit will lead Kuda’s Credit tribe, driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of all lending-related products and initiatives.
- This role focuses on building reliable, scalable, and compliant credit solutions that deliver measurable business impact and exceptional customer experiences.
- You’ll own the tribe’s roadmap, delivery, and performance, ensuring decisions are data-driven and aligned with Kuda’s broader strategic and financial goals.
- You’ll also play a key role in building and developing a strong product team, fostering collaboration and accountability across stakeholders.
- Delivery & Execution
- Lead tribe planning and QBRs, ensuring alignment, clarity, and dependency management.
- Champion thin-slice, iterative delivery focused on measurable outcomes.
- Provide consistent visibility to leadership through metrics, progress updates, and proactive risk management.
- Data & Experimentation
- Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making, establishing strong experimentation and measurement practices.
- Ensure squads have the insights, analytics, and tools needed for effective prioritisation.
- Product Quality, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure all products meet regulatory, compliance, and security requirements.
- Embed standards for reliability, performance, accessibility, and localisation into delivery practices.
- People Leadership & Organisation Building
- Hire, coach, and develop Product Managers across multiple levels.
- Foster a culture of clarity, focus, and ownership of outcomes.
- Define and uphold high standards for product discovery, delivery, and communication craft.
- Day-to-Day Collaboration
- With BLO: Align product strategy with business objectives and financial targets.
- With DM/TLs: Manage capacity, technical debt, and sustainable delivery practices.
- With Other Tribe Leads: Coordinate dependencies and shared initiatives.
- With Compliance, Legal, Marketing, and CX: Ensure alignment across customer, regulatory, and commercial goals.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Product Management experience, including 2+ years leading teams or product portfolios.
- Proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Strong fluency in experimentation, analytics, and data-driven prioritisation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills.
- Experience mentoring and scaling Product Managers with a player-coach mindset.
- Nice to Have
- Background in financial services, payments, lending, or infrastructure.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks and regulatory environments.
- Experience working with growth or data platforms.
Benefits
- At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
- Pension
- Career development & growth
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
- Group life insurance
- Medical insurance
- Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
- Perkbox
- Goalr - employee wellness app
- Award winning L&D training
- We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Product ManagementData-driven decision-makingExperimentationAnalyticsPrioritisationRisk ManagementCompliancePerformance MeasurementProduct DiscoveryDelivery Practices
Soft skills
LeadershipStakeholder ManagementCoachingCollaborationAccountabilityClarityFocusOwnershipCommunicationTeam Development