Commerce is becoming ever more digital, the way we sell, buy and exchange value is changing faster than ever. Buyers want more convenient ways to buy, pay for products/services, and engage businesses while Sellers want more control over how they sell, manage their business, engage their customers and collect customer data. 

Bumpa is redefining commerce in Africa by building the infrastructure that is powering digital commerce on the continent for small business owners (SBOs).

Bumpa Product Team is critical to fulfilling our vision to create solutions that simplify commerce for small businesses across Africa. This role will work with Engineering, Design and other cross-functional teams to decide what products we build and how we build it to solve complex SBO problems. We are typically looking for someone with high technical acumen and are curious, passionate and entrepreneurial. You will be responsible for building and optimizing products/features to help the business acquire, engage, and retain SBOs on our platform to drive business needs and also help our SBOs grow.

We are looking for someone who is excited and interested in building innovative products for the commerce space. 

Responsibilities

1. Create a product strategy for existing or new products based on market trends, sales performance, customer needs/feedback, and industry changes 

2. Work closely with a skilled team of cross-functional peers to define a roadmap that balances building new capabilities, meeting current business needs, handling technical debt, and unlocking new opportunities 

3. Partner with design and development teams to deliver critical product capabilities with speed and quality while driving progress across initiatives by removing blockers from the team and ensuring that the product objectives are met

4. Define, monitor and analyze metrics to guide product improvements 

5. Drive the decision-making process across all aspects of product development including strategy, design, technology, launch)

6. Maintain product backlog, create feature requirement documents, document ideas and plans; and effectively communicate product priorities to all stakeholders

7. Ensure pre, during and post launch communications are targeted to the right audience and contain important and easy to understand messages

• An experienced Product Manager with data-driven product development, strong product craft, and technical background, with previous experience building and setting a vision for our product; at least 5 years of experience is required

• Experience in defining, building and shipping technology products used by large number of users preferably in the Commerce/SME or Fintech space 

• Strong technical product management experience combined with solid technical or data analysis acumen, or direct experience in a technical role 

• Excellent communicator and storyteller, communicating concepts and ideas to stakeholders at all levels 

• Excellent leadership and relationship building skills with the ability to inspire, influence, motivate and support teams or partners to get things done 

• A good knowledge of the local market 

• Genuine empathy towards business owners and passion for solving complex problems 

• An entrepreneurial mindset that can thrive in ambiguity and getting things done

Beyond the perks of remote work, paid time off, health insurance, and all the fun times we’ll share, we also bring a unique opportunity for you to do your best work and positively impact the world to fulfil your potential within a vibrant and fun environment.