As a Remote Product Owner, you will book Pro and up to ,000 for home office equipment (headphones, chair, standing desk, etc.).
African businesses import 0 billion worth of goods and services per year but paying their suppliers abroad remains a massive challenge.
Your responsibilities
- Drive the product roadmap - Decide what we build next (and what we don't), working in close collaboration with sales, operations, and the leadership team
- Coming in early, you will take full ownership of the product across mobile and web and be end-responsible for delivering value to customers
- Take end-to-end ownership of our web and mobile apps - from talking to customers and framing the problem, through the requirements
- Design flows for reliability, robustness and scale - You'll spend as much time on what happens when a transaction fails or gets stuck as on the happy path
Experience & requirements
- Regular travel to Africa to meet with customers, sales and operations on the ground will be required
- You'll need experience with fintech products (payments, lending, banking) is a hard requirement
- Two engineers (or coding agents) reading your spec independently would build the same thing
- Pen.dev, Claude Design) rather than relying on a designer
- You have a sense for what's hard vs easy to build
- You treat KYC, AML and licensing as constraints that factor into the design from day one, not as blockers that show up late
- Plus points for cross-border payments and for building in emerging markets
- Payments fluency - Settlement, reconciliation, chargebacks, RFIs, treasury and liquidity
- 5+ years in product management
- Technical credibility - You can read an API schema or contract, follow an architecture discussion, and know when a requirement you've written is accidentally expensive or comes with hidden complexity
The role at a glance
- Salary: Highly competitive salary
- Our platform has processed over billion across tens of thousands of transactions for African businesses, but we are just getting started
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Remote Product Owner in Dunblane employer: Kappa
Kappa is an exceptional employer that empowers its employees to make a significant impact on the African economy through innovative cross-border payment solutions. With a strong focus on employee autonomy, competitive salaries, and a family-friendly culture, Kappa fosters a collaborative work environment where team members can thrive and grow professionally. The opportunity to work remotely from any Africa-friendly timezone, coupled with generous benefits and regular travel to engage with customers, makes Kappa a truly rewarding place to build a meaningful career.
