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Job Description
We're looking for a Product Manager who is excited to help us build the region’s #1 digital lender for SMEs. You'll have the unique opportunity to join us almost at the start of our mission to re-invent finance in the Middle East. And if it matters to you, we are strongly committed to the principles of Islamic Banking as we embark on this exciting journey.
Our Tech team's mission is to
Enable Funding Souq to deliver a reliable solution to the region’s underserved SMEs and beyond
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver a product vision and strategy
- Define roadmap and customer scenarios
- Work with the engineering team to deliver a scalable architecture that not just meets current needs but considers future growth scenarios
- Define a set of KPIs to measure customer satisfaction and business impact with the ability to analyze them and utilize them in decision-making processes
- Drive the creation, execution, and analysis of A/B tests to increase conversion and reduce operational overhead.
- Gather insights from internal and external user feedback, web analytics, research, experiments, competitors and data analysis to understand user needs and synthesize them into learnings for the team and into product plans to deliver on those user needs.
- Create and prioritize backlogs, working regularly with the team to refine and add detail where needed
- Write clear and concise product requirements and develop basic but elegant prototypes that make engineers clamor to work with you.
- Break down complex problems into simpler component pieces to facilitate execution.
Job Requirements
Essential
- 3+ years of experience in product management, product development and shipping quality products that had customer impact with evidence of exceptional ability
- Strong experience in gathering business requirements, documentation, user stories, functional specifications and building system design with Engineering teams.
- Experience having shipped customer-facing products that delivered business impact and customer satisfaction.
- Proven history of converting learnings from customer insights into tangible product features that customers love
- Entrepreneurial instincts with a clear bias for informed action and a track record of leading new initiatives with limited resources and support
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data and metrics for making assumptions and decisions
- Ability to successfully work with a cross range of teams, including engineering, UX, legal, finance, sales and operations
- Good understanding and working experience in technology development best practices (such as Agile, etc.) and product management technologies
- Excellent written and verbal communications across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Fluency in Arabic
- Previous experience at a start-up is preferred
Seniority Level
- Mid-level / Senior
Industry
- Computer Software, Internet, Financial Services
Job Functions
- Finance / Strategy
