Technical Product Manager - DevEx

Overview

Wave is making Africa the first cashless continent by building financial services that just work.

Job Description

Wave launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments, and now has millions of users across 9 countries.

Responsibilities

  • - Lead a team of engineers with full ownership of how we deliver new features for our users and use AI solutions to remove impactful friction for our engineers and product managers.
  • - Define product goals, metrics, and roadmaps based on user needs and mission impact.
  • - Drive user research within our engineering and product teams.
  • - Write clear, compelling design docs and facilitate async, fast-moving decision-making.
  • - Over-communicate context, priorities, and decisions to ensure team alignment.
  • - Adjust priorities quickly based on feedback, experiments, or new learnings.
  • - Solve problems holistically, whether through product features, ops tooling or process changes.
  • - Own the developer experience holistically, including any internal or external tooling needed to support it.
  • - Research and implement solutions for how we can use AI to remove engineering and development friction.
  • - Build your own prototypes to test ideas where possible.
  • - Relentlessly gather feedback (by talking to users and looking at data) to deeply understand the problem space and our engineers' and product managers' needs.
  • - Work from first principles to understand the engineers' and product managers' biggest problems and then figure out how our tooling should work to solve those problems.
  • - Prioritize the biggest problems blocking the engineers' and product managers' productivity and the impact on delivering value to our users fast and securely.
  • - Directly manage the DevEx team to help them grow in their careers, partnering with the Tech Lead, who will own the technical bar.

Required Skills

  • - 3+ years of product management experience and hands-on engineering background (you’ve shipped production code) or direct PM ownership of a developer experience, or developer productivity function.
  • - Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle, such as user research, design, implementation and evaluation.
  • - Speak fluent English.

Benefits

  • - Yearly $1,200 stipend to support co-working meetups with teammates.
  • - Competitive salaries calculated using a transparent formula.
  • - Generous equity package.
  • - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents, and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
  • - 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
  • - Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days per year.
  • - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.

About the company

We’re on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where over half the population has no bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere!


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