Job Title: Product Manager – Payment Infrastructure
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time (On-site)
About Unlimit:
Unlimit is a global fintech company with 16 offices all over the world and more than 500 employees, that offers a large portfolio of financial services – from acquiring (payment processing) to banking as a service. Our mission is to be “ready for tomorrow” and to provide our customers with a sense of stability in the everchanging financial landscape and an opportunity to be prepared for whatever the tomorrow of business brings their way, so that while others observe, they can already take an advantage.
Job Summary
- As a Product Manager focused on Payment Infrastructure, you will serve as Unlimit’s technical and operational lead for payment integrations in Nigeria.
- You will be responsible for managing relationships with banks and mobile money operators (e.g. OPay, PalmPay), ensuring stable, high-performing integrations with maximum uptime and success rates.
- You’ll act as the local point of contact for all provider-related technical flows and issue resolution, working directly with external provider engineering and support teams, while collaborating remotely with Unlimit’s product and development teams based at HQ.
- This role requires a strong mix of technical understanding, local market expertise, and operational excellence.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own and manage technical relationships with Nigerian banks and mobile money operators
- Drive resolution of incidents and outages by working directly with provider engineering/support teams
- Monitor and improve transaction success rates, latency, error rates, and SLAs across all Nigerian payment methods
- Translate local provider documentation and behavior into actionable inputs for HQ product and engineering teams
- Analyze failed transactions, trace logs, and summarize root causes with clarity
- Document local integration flows, callback behaviors, edge cases, and known issues
- Coordinate testing, QA, and rollout of new payment methods and provider connections
- Stay up-to-date with changes in the Nigerian payments landscape and proactively identify risks and opportunities
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in payments, PSPs, banks, or fintech — ideally in a product, operations, or technical integration role
- Deep understanding of Nigerian payment methods: NIP transfers, virtual accounts, mobile money (e.g., OPay), USSD, and card acquiring
- Strong experience working with bank/payment APIs, handling callback/webhook issues, and understanding payment reconciliation flows
- Confident with technical tools like Postman, Kibana, Datadog, and custom monitoring/reporting dashboards
- Able to communicate with engineers on a technical level and translate for non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent at managing provider relationships and pushing for performance improvements
- Proactive, structured, and comfortable working across time zones with distributed teams
- Bonus: hands-on experience at a PSP, digital wallet, or bank that built or maintained integrations.
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should click on ‘Apply now’ below.
