Vacancy title:
Product Manager

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Telecommunications, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
Umba

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, October 22 2025

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 10 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Responsibilities

• Working with our Vehicle Financing team and developing our feature set further with an emphasis on automation.
• Developing and managing our SME lending (UmbaPay) and Umba Payments. We want our SME experience to be best in class.
• Assessing competitors. What are we missing? What can we do better?
• QA the products that we are building
• Should be comfortable writing clear, concise PRDs as well as working with designers and engineers
• Work with internal stakeholders from risk, legal, operations, and executive management to translate business needs into product requirements.
• Establish product delivery timelines in close collaboration with the development team.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, engineering, data science, economics, or related technical field is preferred.
• 3-4 Years of Product Management Experience.
• Ability to translate complex problems and ideas into easily understood descriptions.
• Proven ability to dive deeply into specific functional areas and learn a domain.
• Proven ability to innovate and come up with ideas to help drive the product forward.
• Proven ability to understand the business and engineering sides and get into technical detail.
• Ability to assume a strong sense of responsibility and ownership in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent project management skills - delivery and action-oriented.

Nice to have:
Engineering background
SQL, Python or any scripting abilities
Startup mentality
Experience in financial services
Work Status
Valid work authorization for Kenya
Umba is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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