Lead, Product Strategy

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead, Product Strategy

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary

• This role requires a strategic product leader with extensive experience building and scaling digital products, managing Product Managers, influencing executive stakeholders, and balancing customer needs with commercial outcomes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• You will work closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Marketing, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Customer Success, and senior management to identify opportunities, define product strategy, execute high-impact initiatives, and build products that solve meaningful customer problems at scale.
• As the Lead, Product Strategy, you will lead the strategic direction of Piggytech's product portfolio, ensuring our existing and future products deliver exceptional customer value while advancing the company's long-term business objectives.

Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision:

• Identify new product opportunities, adjacent markets, customer segments, and emerging business models that strengthen Piggytech's market leadership.
• Develop and continuously refine a cohesive product portfolio strategy that delivers seamless customer experiences across saving, investing, payments, and other financial services.
• Define and lead the product strategy across PiggyVest, PocketApp, PiggyVest Business, and future products, ensuring alignment with Piggytech's vision, business objectives, and long-term growth strategy.
• Translate business strategy into clear product priorities, strategic initiatives, and measurable outcomes that drive sustainable growth.

Product Portfolio Leadership:

• Drive strategic alignment across products to maximise synergies, shared capabilities, and customer lifetime value.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term innovation by continuously evaluating product investments, priorities, and resource allocation.
• Oversee the strategic direction and performance of Piggytech's product portfolio, ensuring each product delivers measurable customer and business value.

Product Management Leadership:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Product Managers, fostering a culture of ownership, customer obsession, innovation, and excellence.
• Establish product management standards, frameworks, and operating rhythms that enable consistent execution and scalable product development.

Customer, Market & Industry Intelligence:

• Champion continuous customer discovery through research, experimentation, usability testing, and data analysis.
• Anticipate changes in technology, regulation, and customer expectations, ensuring Piggytech remains at the forefront of innovation.
• Develop deep insights into customer behaviour, market trends, competitive dynamics, and the evolving financial services landscape to inform product strategy.

Innovation & Future Product Development:

• Evaluate emerging technologies—including AI, automation, embedded finance, open banking, and other industry innovations—to identify opportunities that improve customer experience and business performance.
• Drive the exploration, validation, and development of new products, platform capabilities, and revenue opportunities that expand Piggytech's ecosystem.
• Foster a culture of experimentation by encouraging teams to test ideas, validate assumptions, and learn quickly.

Roadmap Execution & Delivery:

• Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Marketing, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and other stakeholders to ensure timely and high-quality execution.
• Guide Product Managers in developing strategic, outcome-driven product roadmaps aligned with customer needs and business priorities.
• Proactively identify strategic risks, remove delivery blockers, and ensure effective decision-making throughout the product lifecycle.

Commercial Strategy & Growth:

• Balance customer value with commercial objectives by identifying opportunities to increase customer acquisition, engagement, retention, revenue, and operational efficiency.
• Monitor product performance and ensure strategic initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Develop business cases for new products, strategic initiatives, partnerships, and market expansion opportunities.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of product discovery, product development, Agile methodologies, experimentation, product analytics, and customer research.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance customer needs, business objectives, and technical considerations.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success defining product strategy and scaling multiple digital products in a high-growth technology environment.
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and leadership capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across multiple teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in Product Management, with at least 3 years leading or managing Product Managers.
• Proven experience managing product portfolios and leading cross-functional product teams.
• Experience building consumer-facing digital products at scale, preferably within fintech, financial services, payments, banking, investing, lending, or related industries.