
Senior Product Manager – Savings Products
Renmoney
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lagos • Nigeria
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About the role
- Product Strategy & Ownership
- - Own the end-to-end strategy for Renmoney’s savings products, including:
- - Everyday savings accounts
- - Fixed or term deposits
- - Structured and goal-based savings products
- - Future diaspora savings offerings
- - Translate Renmoney’s 2025–2027 long-term business strategy into a clear product roadmap for savings.
- - Ensure savings products support:
- - Deposit growth
- - Lower funding costs
- - Healthy balance between short-term and long-term funds
- - Define product value propositions for different customer groups such as individual retail customers, small and medium-sized businesses, and Nigerians in the diaspora.
- **Balance Sheet & Commercial Performance**
- - Work closely with the Finance and Treasury teams to:
- - Improve the mix between on-demand savings (money customers can withdraw anytime) and fixed deposits (money locked for a specific period)
- - Reduce the Cost of Funds (COF), which means how much the bank pays customers for deposits
- - Model how pricing, interest rates, and savings tenors affect profitability and liquidity
- - Own key savings performance metrics, including:
- - Total deposits and monthly net inflows
- - Average balance per customer
- - Cost of Funds (interest paid on deposits)
- - Customer retention and churn (how many customers stay or leave)
- **Execution & Delivery**
- - Lead cross-functional execution with:
- - Engineering (software development)
- - Design (user experience and interface)
- - Risk Management
- - Compliance (regulatory adherence)
- - Operations and Customer Support
- - Marketing and Growth teams
- - Write Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) that clearly describe what is being built and why.
- - Prioritize features and initiatives based on customer value, risk, effort, and business impact.
- - Ensure savings features are reliable, scalable, compliant with regulations, and easy for customers to use.
- **Governance, Risk & Compliance**
- - Represent savings products in the Product Governance Council (PGC), which is the internal committee that reviews, approves, and governs all product changes.
- - Participate in Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO) sessions, where senior leaders manage:
- - Liquidity (availability of cash)
- - Interest rate risk
- - Funding strategy
- - Ensure savings products comply with:
- - Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regulations
- - Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR), which governs customer data privacy
- - Internal audit, risk, and control frameworks
- - Proactively identify risks, trade-offs, and dependencies before they become issues.
- **Customer Experience & Growth**
- - Improve savings adoption through:
- - Simple and clear onboarding
- - Smooth funding and withdrawal experiences
- - Transparent communication of interest, penalties, and terms
- - Use savings as a foundation to cross-sell other products such as loans and payments.
- - Work with the Analytics team to understand customer behavior and lifetime value.
Requirements
- - 6–10+ years of Product Management experience
- - Direct experience with banking, savings, or deposit products
- - Experience working in regulated financial institutions such as banks, microfinance banks, or fintechs
- - Proven ability to own products that impact revenue and the balance sheet
- - Experience working closely with Finance, Risk, and Compliance teams
- **Skills & Competencies**
- - Strong understanding of financial concepts such as interest rates, liquidity, and funding costs
- - Data-driven decision-making combined with sound professional judgment
- - Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels
- - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including with executive leadership
- - High sense of ownership and accountability
- **Success Metrics (First 12–18 Months)**
- - Consistent growth in customer deposits
- - Improved funding efficiency through a better deposit mix
- - Strong adoption and retention of savings products
- - On-time delivery of roadmap initiatives that meet regulatory and audit requirements
- - Clear, trusted product leadership in executive and governance forums
- **Nice-to-Have**
- - Experience with diaspora banking or international savings products
- - Exposure to senior financial decision-making forums such as ALCO
- - Experience in fast-growing fintech or digital banking environments
- - Familiarity with analytics, experimentation, and customer insight tools
- **Key Stakeholders**
- - Head of Product
- - Finance and Treasury teams
- - Risk Management and Compliance teams
- - Engineering and Design teams
- - Marketing and Growth teams
- - Executive Management, including:
- - Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- - Deputy Chief Executive Officer
- - Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO)
- - Product Governance Council (PGC)
Benefits
- **Why Join Renmoney**
- - Opportunity to shape the savings foundation of a modern Nigerian digital bank
- - High visibility and direct impact on business performance
- - Strong governance, leadership support, and product culture
- - A role that combines product leadership, financial performance, and customer impact
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product ManagementFinancial analysisData-driven decision-makingProduct Requirement Documents (PRDs)Customer retention strategiesDeposit product managementRisk managementCompliance managementLiquidity managementInterest rate analysis
Soft Skills
Strong written communicationStrong verbal communicationStrategic thinkingExecution capabilityHigh sense of ownershipAccountabilityInterpersonal skillsLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solving