Manager: Payment Products

Vodacom Tanzania is hiring a Manager: Payment Products to lead the development, management, innovation, and growth of digital payment products and value-added solutions for businesses and SMEs. The role focuses on managing the full product lifecycle, from identifying market opportunities and defining product strategies to launching, optimizing, and scaling payment solutions.

The successful candidate will work across Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Operations, Customer Experience, Commercial teams, financial institutions, technology providers, and ecosystem partners. The position is suited to an experienced product, fintech, digital payments, mobile money, or financial services professional with strong commercial, analytical, and stakeholder-management capabilities.

• Develop and manage payment product roadmaps, product vision, and value propositions.

• Shape customer journeys and experiences around payment products.

  

• Align product priorities with business objectives and customer needs.

• Lead product development, implementation, testing, and launch-readiness activities.

  

• Support go-to-market activities and drive product adoption.

• Continuously optimize products using customer feedback, market intelligence, and performance insights.

  

• Conduct market research to identify emerging trends and business opportunities.

• Analyse customer behaviour, product performance, transaction trends, and revenue performance.

  

• Gather customer feedback and convert insights into actionable product initiatives.

• Identify opportunities to improve customer experience and product adoption.

• Drive transaction growth, customer engagement, and retention.

• Monitor product profitability and sustainable business value.

• Develop dashboards and regular reports for product and portfolio reviews.

• Collaborate with Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Operations, Customer Experience, and Commercial teams.

• Work with financial institutions, technology providers, service providers, and ecosystem partners.

• Build strategic partnerships that enhance product capabilities and customer value.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle.

• Ensure payment products comply with applicable regulatory and legal requirements.

• Maintain appropriate risk and governance controls.

• Ensure proper product documentation, approvals, and compliance throughout the product lifecycle.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Marketing, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• At least 5 years of experience in product management, digital payments, fintech, mobile money, banking, financial services, or a related sector.

• Experience managing products through the full product lifecycle.

• Experience developing product roadmaps and business cases.

• Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Strong commercial analysis and data analysis skills.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Experience managing ecosystem partnerships is an added advantage.

Interested and qualified candidates should apply through the official Vodafone careers portal.

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Application deadline: 3 September 2026.