Remote Product Owner

As a Remote Product Owner, you will book Pro and up to ,000 for home office equipment (headphones, chair, standing desk, etc.).

African businesses import 0 billion worth of goods and services per year but paying their suppliers abroad remains a massive challenge.

Your responsibilities

• Drive the product roadmap - Decide what we build next (and what we don't), working in close collaboration with sales, operations, and the leadership team
• Coming in early, you will take full ownership of the product across mobile and web and be end-responsible for delivering value to customers
• Take end-to-end ownership of our web and mobile apps - from talking to customers and framing the problem, through the requirements
• Design flows for reliability, robustness and scale - You'll spend as much time on what happens when a transaction fails or gets stuck as on the happy path

Experience & requirements

• Regular travel to Africa to meet with customers, sales and operations on the ground will be required
• You'll need experience with fintech products (payments, lending, banking) is a hard requirement
• Two engineers (or coding agents) reading your spec independently would build the same thing
• Pen.dev, Claude Design) rather than relying on a designer
• You have a sense for what's hard vs easy to build
• You treat KYC, AML and licensing as constraints that factor into the design from day one, not as blockers that show up late
• Plus points for cross-border payments and for building in emerging markets
• Payments fluency - Settlement, reconciliation, chargebacks, RFIs, treasury and liquidity
• 5+ years in product management
• Technical credibility - You can read an API schema or contract, follow an architecture discussion, and know when a requirement you've written is accidentally expensive or comes with hidden complexity

The role at a glance

• Salary: Highly competitive salary
• Our platform has processed over billion across tens of thousands of transactions for African businesses, but we are just getting started