Senior Product Manager, Yassir

Financial Services

Salary not provided
Mid and Senior level
Paris
Yassir

Provides ride-hailing and last-mile delivery services

Open for applications

Yassir

Provides ride-hailing and last-mile delivery services

1001+ employees

B2BMarketplaceLogisticsTransportRidesharing

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Mid and Senior level
Paris

1001+ employees

B2BMarketplaceLogisticsTransportRidesharing

Company mission

Creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.

Role

Who you are

  • Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in product management with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or Payment provider
  • A track record of launching consumer-facing digital products and services (B2B or B2C)
  • Experience working with scale-ups
  • Ability to create and execute a customer discovery process to gather pains and opportunities
  • Ability to design and run various ideation workshops
  • Presentation skills and storytelling
  • Understanding of how to integrate analytics into a product for generating useful information
  • Understanding of the importance of branding and when it's important and when it's not
  • A strong understanding of value proposition design and what makes for a successful venture
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence stakeholders at all levels
  • Knowledge of modern development practices like agile and scrum
  • General understanding of the technical aspects in digital product development with the ability to work closely with technical engineers and get the best out of them
  • Strong design sense with the ability to collaborate with designers to produce great work
  • Ability to manage stakeholders across the business and clients
  • Passion for digital products and human-centered design
  • Dependable, enthusiastic, curious with great energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Fluent English

Desirable

  • Knowledge of lean startup techniques and what a good MVP should be across B2B and B2C
  • Technical, consulting, or design background
  • Understanding of metrics and how to define them for different companies and products
  • Understanding of behavioral psychology and how to make products with high engagement and stickiness
  • Understanding of the growth process across Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue

What the job involves

  • Co-create, coordinate, and facilitate your team's product discovery process
  • Work with cross-functional collaborators, such as engineers, product designers, and marketers, to validate product ideas through a variety of product discovery frameworks and methods
  • Work closely with users and stakeholders to understand their needs and objectives, and to gain a deep understanding of the problem space through workshops and research
  • Conduct secondary and primary research, prototyping, and experiments (e.g. defining and understanding of proto-personas, customer journeys, customer interviews)
  • Translate customer insights into prioritized product ideas or experiments to be tested on the market and with customers
  • Synthesize data to make strategic evidence-based recommendations founded on the business, market, and customer needs
  • Facilitate and actively collaborate in the development of business models, go2market plans, and early-traction tactics for products to be launched in collaboration with our clients, the product team, and other experts (e.g. marketing)
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies in order to deliver a product or product initiatives in a timely manner and agreed on the qualityโ€

Our take

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. Yassirโ€™s founders felt that providing on-demand services โ€” which solves essential needs and, more importantly, builds trust to then provide payment services โ€” was the catalyst to enable financial inclusion in the region.

The company started with ride-hailing services and progressed to offer last-mile delivery services, creating a multi-sided marketplace that brings drivers, couriers, merchants, suppliers, and wholesalers to individual users on one platform. With 3 out of 5 on-demand transactions in Algeria now made via Yassir, it's eyeing payment services next to truly build a super app.

The companyโ€™s Series B funding of $150 million in 2022 is supercharging its growth and development of new services in the existing markets. Further, Yassirโ€™s leadership has its sights set on West Africa and the Middle East and will expand its engineering and product team across its multi-continental offices.

The company is battling two major challenges: competition and bureaucracy. It's no secret that Uber is a dangerous competitor to go up against, though Yassir intends to improve on the failings of Uber subsidiary Careem in several intended marketplaces. Moreover, each of the countries Yassir is expanding into has a unique regulatory environment that must be navigated. So far, Yassir hasnโ€™t shown any signs that these issues are slowing it down.

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Company benefits

  • ๐ŸŽ‰ At Yassir we celebrate everything. OKRยดs party!
  • ๐Ÿ•Ÿ Flexible working hours, because we care about your outcome and not output
  • ๐Ÿ’ป 24/7 Office
  • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Mobile office - Office in all our sites 4 weeks at any location
  • ๐Ÿš‰ Subsidized public transit pass
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Languages courses
  • ๐Ÿ“š Yassir's academy
  • ๐ŸŽฏ Outstanding mentors who will assist you in your growth
  • ๐Ÿ’ธ Attractive salary and you even get a stake in the company
  • ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐ŸฝVery strong team cohesion with daily and weekly activities
  • ๐Ÿค Buddy program
  • โš–๏ธ As a company, we are passionate for diversity and inclusion, 40% of our team are women leaders in the tech sector

Company values

  • Do things - at Yassir, we have a bias toward action, we like to try things out and learn and we prefer experimentations over paralysis by analysis.
  • Do things fast - at our stage, speed to market is the single most important factor of success, we are not afraid to move quickly even if it means breaking things (some of the time).
  • Do things that scale - everything we do on day 1 needs to be done with scale in mind, we are big fans of automation, templates, playbooks, and anything that can help serve a large set of teammates, partners, and customers.
  • Do things right - we strive to deliver the best service possible and to improve our craft all the time.
  • Do the right thing- whether it is for our colleagues, partners, customers, or the planet, we always prioritize ethical behaviors and actions that maximize the well-being of all.

Founders

After earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, Noureddine spent most of his professional life in Silicon Valley working at various companies including Intel and InSense. They came back to Algeria in 2017 to found Yassir.

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