Product Lead

Who we are

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial ecosystem, helping 10 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools since 2019. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, it powers most of the country’s Point of Sale (POS) transactions. Through its subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes $22 billion monthly for its customers while operating profitably.

Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

About the role

At Moniepoint, product management blends entrepreneurial drive, deep customer insight, and modern technology to solve the toughest problems in service of powering the financial ambitions of millions across Africa.

Over the years, our product craft - the operating system for how products are envisioned, built, launched, and run - has been shaped and refined by the core practices of leading tech companies, while staying true to the unique DNA that has made Moniepoint one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies.

At the core of this craft are our Product Leads: seasoned product operators who own outcomes across multi-squad domains. They hold a long-term view of the domain as both a business and a product in the market, ensuring teams move as a coherent whole toward meaningful customer and business impact. They model what “great” looks like and create the conditions for squads to operate with real autonomy and strong accountability. Through hands-on leadership, they bring battle-tested product judgment into day-to-day execution, coaching more junior PMs by showing how it’s done, or stepping directly into a squad to keep momentum strong.

What you’ll do

• Own and drive outcomes for a product domain spanning multiple squads. Operate the domain as a mini-Business Unit - e.g. P&L performance, go-to-market direction, and the day-to-day decisions and trade-offs required to sustain strong growth at scale.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers, setting direction and clear expectations while raising the bar on ownership, judgment, and execution (modeling what “great” looks like), so squads can drive outcomes autonomously with strong accountability.
• Maintain hands-on leadership, often acting as the Senior PM for a squad - owning the roadmap, going deep on customer problems and data, authoring PRDs, GTM plans, and user stories, and driving discovery and delivery work that sets the benchmark for the team.
• Hold a long-term view of the domain as both a business and a product in the market, guiding prioritization across squads to balance growth, unit economics, differentiated customer experiences, platform health/technical investments, and risk/regulation.
• Run the domain as an integrated portfolio, aligning squads around a cohesive narrative, customer experience, and priorities, and reallocating focus and resources to drive the highest collective impact for customers and the business.
• Set the bar for deep domain understanding across your teams - business, product, operations, customers, market, competitors, and risk/regulation - acting as the reference point and raising the level of thinking across squads.
• Pair deep business acumen with strong product, technical, and analytical judgment - going beyond dashboards to interrogate data directly, pressure-test assumptions, and model the level of rigor expected from PMs, while reinforcing a data-informed decision culture.
• Take ownership of the hardest problems across the domain - e.g. technical, regulatory, operational, and organizational complexity - serving as the escalation point for high-stakes decisions, unblocking teams, and reducing load on Business Unit leadership.
• Cultivate relationships with customers, teams, stakeholders, and leaders to ensure product domain direction is clearly communicated, aligned, and grounded in real-world context.
• Hold a high bar for ownership, decision-making rigor, product quality, and execution excellence across teams and key partners.

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree (strong preference for candidates with degrees in a technical field).
• 10+ years of experience in product roles, including deep, hands-on ownership of technical products end-to-end as a Product Manager in high-growth or complex environments.
• 3+ years of product leadership experience with a track record of building and growing strong Product Management teams.
• Track record of driving OKR-aligned outcomes across multi-squad product domains by setting clear direction, aligning priorities, and enabling strong execution at scale.
• Battle-tested product judgment, earned through hands-on leadership across the full product lifecycle - from early discovery and data-driven insight through solution shaping, launch, and iteration - both as an individual contributor and as a leader of product teams.
• Strong business fluency, with material influence over P&L metrics and hands-on involvement in financial modeling, budget trade-offs, and commercial decision-making.
• Ability to hold a long-term view of the domain and pragmatically guide teams from vision to planning, prioritisation, and execution over time.
• Full-stack product leadership mindset, pairing strong business acumen with technical fluency, design judgment, and analytical rigor - equally comfortable debating architecture trade-offs, shaping customer experience, and interrogating metrics to drive decisions.
• Strong systems thinker, able to reason across interconnected products and journeys and optimise for the health and impact of the domain as a whole, not just individual squads.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, consistently modeling what “great” looks like and setting the bar for teams and partners.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, owning complex, cross-cutting decisions in high-stakes, fast-moving environments.

 What sets you apart

• Domain experience (where applicable - to be advised on a case-by-case basis).
• Experience building, launching, and scaling fintech products.
• Experience spanning both zero-to-one product creation and scaling mature products through subsequent growth phases.
• Experience leading platform, portfolio, or ecosystem products with multiple squads and complex internal or external dependencies.

What you’ll get

• Culture - We put our people first and prioritise the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

What to expect in the hiring process

• Application Review: Initial evaluation of your background, product experience, and evidence of solving problems and driving outcomes.
• Preliminary phone call with recruiter: Discuss your background, motivations, and the context and scope of the role.
• Interview with the Hiring Manager: Assess your experience building products, including relevant domain context where applicable.
• Interview with a Senior Business Leader: Assess how you think and act as a product and business operator in complex real-world scenarios.
• Interview with the CPO (or Senior Product Leader): Assess your product management craft through past experiences and practical scenarios.