Product Manager

A bit about what we do at Peach:

Peach Payments is a fast growing Pan-African PSP that makes online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across all Africa. 

Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and large sellers to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and disburse payments through web and mobile.

Our merchant partners include your favourite food delivery services, whether you’re ordering in or using a meal kit, travel services that can help you book your next getaway adventure and even your neighbour’s side-hustle e-commerce store.

For these partners and their customers, we aim to provide delightful experiences that make it as easy as possible to facilitate online payments.

Why we’re hiring for this role:

We're specifically looking for Product Managers for Commerce, Subscriptions and Merchant Journey, that'll contribute to the direction of our digital payments platform, engage with our customer base directly, and decide the future of the product by working closely with key partners. This opportunity will provide hands-on access to building a modern scalable payment infrastructure across an entire continent.

You’ll also be working with your team and key stakeholders to define product initiatives, building customer empathy and understanding, and defining product initiatives. We take a data-driven approach to identifying high-impact opportunities and to ensure we’re measuring its effectiveness using key performance metrics.

We currently use AWS and have a server-less architecture.

Developing an understanding of how cloud native technologies and infrastructure can be leveraged to scale our business.

More core aspects of this role would be to lead the product development lifecycle along with engineering by documenting product requirements, making key decisions that move towards the desired solution, support testing and effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders throughout the process.

How you’ll be making a difference in one of the roles below:

COMMERCE

  • Owning the experience of how businesses use commerce platforms such as Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce, Magento and others to enable their online sales


MERCHANT JOURNEY

  • Building customer empathy and understanding. Identifying businesses' needs for trading online and discovering the ways to deliver the best product to match them

SUBSCRIPTIONS

  • Owning the experience of how businesses use subscriptions and recurring payments for their online sales
  • Driving Peach Payments’ subscription payment APIs with particular attention to driving platform strategies for payment systems

What we'd like you to have:

  • Minimum of 3-5 years' technical product management experience with strong technical literacy of engineering principles such as REST APIs and SQL databases
  • An awareness of cloud technologies and a desire to learn and experiment with how it can be applied towards automating problems at scale
  • Demonstrated experience in troubleshooting logic and crafting innovative experiences, even if you're not a coder or a designer
  • Experience with agile software development methodology
  • Top communication skills - written and verbal. You're proactive at communicating all phases of the product management lifecycle - definition, execution and delivery
  • A start-up oriented drive to improve the efficiency and capacity of not only software development but also your career and those around you
  • The ability to work autonomously. You'll take full ownership and responsibility for your work each step of the way

Our teams currently work remotely 

Due to the effects of Covid 19, our teams are currently working remotely.
If you’re currently not working remotely or never have, we’ll set expectations of what this looks like at Peach, during our interview process.

In a nutshell, time- and self-management skills are going to be vital. Other considerations are access to a desk or workspace, internet access and I guess a good supply of fresh air and coffee or tea - whatever gets you through your work day. ‍


We value diversity at Peach and therefore we are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.

Peach Payments enables Simple, Seamless and Secure transactions for business and consumers in Africa. We provide our customers with all the tools and solutions they need to sell across any digital channel while ensuring a safe experience for them and their customers. Our vision is to deliver an awesome experience for our customers and users. In everything we do, we strive to make it as easy as possible for our merchants to focus on their business while we take care of their payments needs. We like individuals who are willing to go the extra mile, take ownership and initiative. We encourage our team members to take that extra step to make an impact on the business and their careers.