Product Manager

About Bayse

Bayse is pioneering Africa's largest prediction market and derivatives exchange platform, enabling users to trade on outcomes of real-world events including stocks, entertainment, sports, and politics. The company emphasizes product leadership and data-driven decision-making, building a trusted, fast, and clear platform relied upon daily by users. Inspired by global leaders in the space, Bayse aims to innovate in Africa's emerging prediction market scene with over 300,000 users to date.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to take full ownership of a core segment of Bayse's product—from user-facing trading interfaces to backend components like settlement, liquidity, and compliance. This hands-on role involves setting the roadmap, making strategic prioritization decisions amid regulatory and technical constraints, and driving product delivery that scales alongside our growing user base.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and prioritize the product roadmap for your designated area, transforming problem statements into precise specifications for engineering and design.
• Conduct ongoing user research across diverse user groups and analyze data to maintain a dynamic, prioritized backlog.
• Collaborate daily with engineering and design teams to break down work and resolve blockers, balancing trade-offs around liquidity, regulatory requirements, and technology.
• Define and own critical success metrics such as trading volume, liquidity depth, retention, and conversion rates, running experiments to drive improvements.
• Coordinate with teams in trading, compliance, and operations to ensure products function correctly across pricing, settlement, KYC, and risk domains.
• Innovate new market types and product features that advance the prediction market category, particularly geared towards mainstream African audiences.
• Design scalable product elements to facilitate growth from hundreds of thousands to over a million active users, focusing on activation, retention, and liquidity-engagement synergies.
• Manage product launches with cross-functional teams (operations, compliance, marketing) to ensure smooth rollouts without surprises.

Candidate Profile

• Minimum 5 years of product management experience, ideally with senior responsibility over complex products in fintech, trading, crypto/Web3, or related consumer platforms.
• Strong familiarity or quick learning ability in domains like order book mechanics, liquidity, settlement processes, and prediction markets.
• Data-driven decision maker with analytical strengths around market economics and health indicators.
• A hands-on builder who thrives in ambiguous and constrained environments, with a passion for defining new product categories.
• Proven track record in scaling consumer products towards and beyond one million users.
• Exceptional communication skills and sound judgment under pressure, balancing speed, compliance, and user trust.
• High ownership mentality coupled with humility and adaptability.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience in regulated financial sectors, emerging markets, or payment systems.
• Knowledge of crypto infrastructure, stablecoins, and multi-currency settlements.
• Exposure to trading systems such as matching engines and margin mechanics.
• Background supporting mobile-first products tailored to African or emerging market audiences.
• Technical or quantitative experience enabling effective collaboration with engineering and quant teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Meaningful ownership of a core platform feature used by a large user base in an emerging category.
• Engagement with challenging problems around market microstructure, liquidity, and settlement.
• Direct involvement in company strategy and access to founding leadership.
• Total compensation ranging between ₦800,000 - ₦1,200,000.
• Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week onsite at the office.
• Additional benefits including health coverage, launch support, and transportation allowances.