Senior Product Manager - Processing
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Paystack is hiring a Senior Product Manager to own its payment processing layer in Nigeria (hybrid, Lagos strongly preferred). Reporting to the Head of Product, you will own payment methods and channels, bank and processor integrations, and the reliability of the processing stack powering merchant payments.
- Own payment methods, channels, and partner integrations behind Paystack's processing stack
- Hands-on senior role across engineering, data, commercial, and partner-facing teams
- Reports to the Head of Product; Lagos-based candidates strongly preferred
- Drive transaction success rates, authorization performance, uptime, and market expansion
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Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Processing
Senior Product Manager - Processing (Hybrid) at Paystack
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Sep 23, 2026, 5:12 AM
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Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack's mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: Nigeria (Hybrid)
About the Senior Product Manager role
Every payment we handle depends on the channels we support and the partner rails that carry the transaction, and your job is to make that layer broader, faster, and more dependable.
The role reports to the Head of Product. It is strongly
Preferred Qualifications
- if the candidate is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Our team is looking for a Senior Product Manager to own processing at Paystack.
- This is a hands-on role requiring strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to operate effectively across engineering, data, and partner-facing teams.
- The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, data, commercial, and external partners across our markets.
- You'll own the payment methods and channels available to merchants and their customers, the relationships and integrations with the banks, card schemes, and processors that sit behind them, and the reliability of the processing stack they run on.
- We’ll trust you to
- Make trade-off decisions across coverage, performance, cost, and reliability.
- Own the reliability and uptime of the processing stack, and drive the work needed to keep it high as volume grows.
- Assess and prioritise new partner integrations, and make the case for where we connect next and why.
- Partner with commercial and market teams to support the expansion of payment capabilities into new markets.
- Drive improvements in transaction success rates and authorization performance across every channel we support.
- Define the metrics that matter for processing, such as success rate, authorization rate, latency, and uptime, and hold the team and our partners to them.
- Translate merchant and market needs into clear product
Requirements
- for channel and partner work.
- Reduce transaction failures and improve resilience, including retries, failover, and how we handle partner downtime.
- Use transaction data to identify where payments fail, slow down, or drop off by channel and by partner, and turn those insights into roadmap priorities.
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for payment processing at Paystack, covering channels, partner rails, and the reliability of the processing stack.
- Optimise transaction latency and throughput so that processing stays fast and dependable at scale.
- Expand and improve the payment methods and channels available to merchants, including cards, bank transfers, and direct debit, across our markets.
- Hold partners to account on performance, working with them to resolve the issues that cause transactions to fail.
- Own the product relationship with banks, card schemes, processors, and other partner rails, working with them to improve connectivity, performance, and coverage.
- You’ll thrive in this role if you have
- Prior
Experience
with payments, financial infrastructure, or other high-scale transactional systems is a strong asset.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work directly with transaction data to find and prioritise problems.
Strong project management skills, with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple workstreams at once, follow through, and meet deadlines.
Sound judgment even in ambiguous situations.
working with external partners such as banks, processors, or card schemes, and the ability to hold them to a performance standard.
Technical fluency; comfortable working closely with engineers on the systems that process payments, and reasoning about performance, resilience, and reliability trade-offs.
An open and curious mind about an evolving industry, humility, and a terrific sense of humor.
A positive attitude, collaborative mindset, and a desire to be part of a strong, supportive.
Ability to deal effectively with a variety of individuals at all organizational levels.
Action- and results-oriented, with the ability to demonstrate good judgment in a fast-paced, high-growth, dynamic environment.
Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
6+ years of product management experience, with a strong track record of shipping complex, technical products.
Benefits
Full medical coverage
Smart, kind colleagues who are invested in your growth.
13th month bonus
Competitive compensation package and
Hybrid working environment
Wellbeing stipend
TSG Equity compensation
How to Apply
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