Product Manager - Payments

2 Months ago • 2-5 Years • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Product Manager - Payments at Carry1st, you'll be responsible for the payments infrastructure powering Carry1stShop (digital content delivery) and Pay1st Gateway (merchant payment processing). Responsibilities include driving feature development for web and mobile, contributing to the product roadmap, championing user-centricity with a focus on localized payment experiences, and collaborating with tech, design, marketing, and data teams. You'll work with top-tier mobile game content and publishers. This role requires 2-5 years of product management experience in a B2C payments role or with a B2B payment service provider/aggregator.
Must have:
  • 2-5 years in Product Management (Payments B2C or B2B)
  • Leadership mindset & ownership
  • Data-driven, Product Led Growth focus
  • Excellent communication & collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with African/Middle Eastern e-commerce and payments
Perks:
  • Work from anywhere globally
  • Company shares
  • Fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Opportunity to build industry-changing products

Job Details

Description

Carry1st is Africa’s leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems.  Across our publishing and Pay1st business lines, we are partnered with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Stillfront.  We are backed by top investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony and Nas.

As a Product Manager - Payments, you will be responsible for the payments infrastructure that powers both the Carry1st Shop which delivers digital content to mobile gamers and also our Pay1st Gateway which empowers merchants to process payments.

You will…

  • Drive and execute ambitious feature development for web and mobile experiences
  • Contribute to the vision and drive the overall product roadmap for the Payments team
  • Be an evangelist for user-centricity with a hyper-focus on localised payment experiences  
  • Ally closely with your counterparts in Tech, Design, Marketing and Data
  • Get to work with Tier 1 mobile game content and publishers

Requirements

What makes you a great candidate?

  • 2-5 years experience in Product Management either within a Payments role at a B2C company or working with a B2B Payment Service Provider or Aggregator
  • You possess a leadership mindset with a strong sense of ownership and high productivity
  • A modern product management ethos heavily reliant on data and Product Led Growth (PLG)
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills working with Tech, Design and Growth
  • Bonus: Familiarity with the African or Middle Eastern e-commerce and payments

Benefits

What will it be like to work at Carry1st?

Carry1st is a fast-paced and dynamic place to work. Our team is diverse and global as we operate fully remotely across 30+ countries. At Carry1st, you will have the opportunity to…

  • Build awesome, industry-changing products, every day
  • Grow with a VC-backed startup at the intersection of gaming and fintech
  • Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
  • Own shares in the Company - enabling you to benefit from the value you create 

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Join us!

Learn more about Carry1st…

  • Andreessen Horowitz shared why they invested in Carry1st
  • VentureBeat announced that Carry1st has raised $27 million to develop and publish mobile games in Africa
  • Remerge hosted Cordel on a podcast to discuss Carry1st and the African gaming market

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About The Company

Carry1st is Africa’s leading games publisher and monetization platform, helping top global companies grow their player base and revenue across Africa and the Middle East. We launch, localize, and scale games for global audiences, operate the region’s fastest-growing digital top-up web shop, and offer a payments platform that boosts revenue by up to 10x in markets with low card usage but high demand for digital content. Our partners include Activision, EA, Riot Games, and Netease. Backed by investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony, and Nas, we’re solving hard problems at the intersection of gaming, fintech, and digital commerce.

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