Senior Product Manager (Payments) - Payments experience is a MUST

At Careem, we are driven by the purpose of simplifying the lives of people and building an awesome organisation that inspires. Based in Dubai, we started our journey as a pioneer of the Middle East’s ride-hailing economy. Today, Careem is the region’s everyday Super App operational in 13 countries and over 100 cities. The Super App provides a host of daily services that people need to move around, to order things and to transfer money in one unified smartphone app. Our goal is to simplify people’s daily lives so that they can spend their precious time and mindshare on things that really matter and on realizing their potential.

As a Product Manager in the Careem Pay team, you will be leading and owning products and services that enables paying experience for customer and captains (drivers) in a delightful and compliant fashion across the Middle East and North Africa.

• Be both tactically and strategically focused (be a product owner and a product manager)
• Own the vision and be the expert for your product roadmap for your product/service
• Be a leader in championing for your product across all stakeholders internal and external
  including city teams, marketing and other line of businesses like ride hailing, food, order
  anything.
• Possess customer empathy and curiosity mindset - defining customer value propositions
  based on personas (design thinking approach)
• Understand the money movement business/strategic cases for the product in order to
  prioritize epics, stories and define minimal viable product (MVP)
• Define, prioritize and groom the product backlog, create actionable user stories and
  epics that are clearly visible for co-located development teams (technical
  lead/engineering manager)
• Perform A/B testing working with data scientist(s) to validate and iterate product
  increments to demonstrate customer and business value.
• Be both data-driven to solve large problems that have meaningful impact and
  improvement on millions of people’s daily lives.

Requirements

• • Strong understanding of payments domain and payments industry
  • Hands on experience in leading mobile wallet and supporting payment operations.
  • 5 years of experience creating strategic product roadmap(s) from concept to launch
    working with cross-functional teams
  • Experience with Lean and Agile processes using Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence)
  • Demonstrated ability to use data for analyzing, reporting and efficiently responding to
    data in order to make informed product decisions.
  • Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority

• Design thinking experience and mobility background is a plus but not a requirement