Product Manager (Fintech)

TL;DR

Product Manager (Fintech): Owning and optimizing the hirify.global Marketplace experience in South Africa to help users make better financial decisions, with an accent on marketplace optimization, go-to-market plans, and user adoption. Focus on developing hypotheses, running experiments, and analyzing data to increase value and impact, leading collaboration across various teams.

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. This role operates under a hybrid model, requiring a minimum of 2-3 days per week in-office in Cape Town.

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to make personal finance clearer, calmer, and easier to understand, serving over 22 million users globally and operating with a startup mentality.

What you will do

• Own and optimize the hirify.global Marketplace experience in South Africa, guiding users towards better financial decisions.
• Set the product direction, ensuring alignment with both overall product and business strategies.
• Partner with global teams to influence the roadmap, represent South African market needs, and launch new Marketplace features.
• Work closely with local marketing and commercial teams to ensure coherent go-to-market plans.
• Develop hypotheses, run experiments, and analyze data (with analytics support) to increase value and impact.
• Lead collaboration between engineering, design, marketing, commercial, and global stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience growing mass-market consumer products, with preferable experience in Marketplace optimization.
• Comfortable operating as a highly autonomous individual contributor, owning a market end-to-end.
• Experience leading product marketing efforts, translating product capabilities into clear positioning and go-to-market plans.
• Ability to develop a deep understanding of your market, users, partners, and product’s problem space using qualitative and quantitative techniques.
• Structured approach to tackling ambiguous problems, utilizing successful industry patterns.
• Comfortable working closely with external partners, incorporating their needs and concerns.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work hours and the ability to work from home within a hybrid model.
• 20 paid holidays plus public holidays and a “duvet day” on your birthday.
• Pension Fund contribution and Private Medical Insurance.
• Continued investment into learning and development.
• Monthly team events and quarterly company events.
• Inclusive culture that encourages challenging the status quo and career growth.

Hiring process

• A super-fast and friendly interview process designed more like a friendly discussion.