Product Manager

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa M-KOPA Full time

**Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a company where progress and humility are valued as highly as technical excellence? At M-KOPA we use the latest technologies and tools to build fantastic customer experiences with a socially and environmentally conscious mission that echoes throughout the organisation.**:
Working as a Product Manager in our Retention Group offers the chance to collaborate with very talented groups of inhouse Engineers, Designers and Data Scientists solving real world problems that have a huge scale of impact across Africa.

Retention are responsible for retaining our customers by continuously providing them with life changing products such as cash loans, insurance, and buy-now-pay-later products.
- **_Digital Financial Services_**_ - We are dedicated to offering our customers financial services, such as cash loans, through our M-KOPA App and across our key markets._
- **_ Eligibility_**_ -Collaborate with data scientists to implement real-time eligibility decisioning, enabling M-KOPA to determine if a customer is eligible for financial services._
- **_ Identity -_**_ Responsible for ensuring M-KOPA users can seamlessly and securely authenticate across our suite of apps._
- **_ Customer Interactions - _**_Responsible for direct interactions with customers, including the native Android app, SMS, and USSD services._

We have a data-driven approach to the incremental improvements of our products and a focus towards excellence.

We foster a very low-ego environment at M-KOPA, a place where diversity, innovation and collaboration sit comfortably with commercial growth and social impact. The team prizes psychological safety above all. We have a Discovery first approach. Meaning you get to make very clear cases for prioritisation of the solutions we develop.

Recognised twice by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing company (2022 and 2023) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023, we've served over 3 million customers, unlocking $1 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.

At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
- ** Evidence of Data Driven Product Development**
- ** Successful collaborations with cross-functional team members**
- ** Achievements building B2C Products**
- ** Success in Retention in one of the African markets**
- ** Expectations of travel**

If the above is of interest to you, please apply

Our hiring process is as much about us selling to you as the other way round. Our hiring process is a series of meetings as follows;
- Recruiter call 30 mins - an introduction to the process and M-KOPA_
- Hiring Team call 45 mins - High level introductions_
- Presentation done at home_
- Task Deep Dive 90 mins - This is where most of the magic happens._
- Final Interview - 30 mins_

M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.

M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.



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