Manager, Product - Nigeria

About the company

Visa is a global payments technology company that helps move money between consumers, businesses, financial institutions and public sector organizations in more than 200 countries and territories. Its purpose is to make it easier for people everywhere to pay and get paid.

At Visa, you can contribute to work that has real scale and relevance, while building your expertise and seeing the impact of your efforts across communities around the world.

Progress starts with you.

Role overview

This Product Manager role sits within the Digital Solutions area of the Solutions organization and focuses on supporting Visa Token Service initiatives, low-cost acceptance products such as Visa Accept, and emerging acceptance opportunities in urban mobility. The scope covers West Africa, with extensive coordination across business, technical, and functional teams including digital development, network processing, client support, risk, legal, and operations.

The role will work closely with issuers, merchants, and mobile ecosystem partners across SSA to deliver face-to-face payment solutions and support the Digital Solutions Payments Lead. It is centered on product leadership for tokenization and merchant solutions, helping drive new merchant verticals and next-generation proximity payment acceptance capabilities.

This position is well suited to someone with an engineering or pre-sales consulting background who wants to move further into product management within payments technology.

The ideal candidate is adaptable, coachable, and confident in communication, presentation, relationship-building, and organization. You should be comfortable handling several concurrent workstreams, thinking both strategically and tactically, and working independently in a fast-moving environment with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

Across West Africa, the role will lead tokenization and acceptance-related product work, from strategy and planning to integration support and launch execution.

Additional information

This is a hybrid role. The number of office days will be confirmed by the hiring manager.

Equal opportunity

Visa is an equal opportunity employer. Consideration for employment is provided without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. Applicants with criminal histories may also be considered in line with applicable EEOC guidance and local law.

Qualifications

The role calls for a strong technical foundation, relevant product or integration experience, and the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences. Candidates should be comfortable managing multiple initiatives, influencing across teams, and handling changing priorities.

Experience and background

A successful candidate will typically have more than 2 years of experience in product management, requirements gathering, and use-case design, along with a technical background. A Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of work experience is one acceptable qualification path; alternatively, an advanced degree with 4 years of work experience or a PhD with no prior work experience also meets the basic criteria.

Preferred academic background includes computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a closely related technology discipline, though equivalent technical expertise gained through work experience is also acceptable.

Key focus areas

The work covers Visa Token Service wallets, Visa Accept, transit solutions, product performance tracking, and product support for regional launches. It also involves pre-sales technical guidance, certification, pilot management, roadmap input, and coordination with partners and internal teams.

Selection preferences

Experience in mobile payments, contactless issuance, smart card deployments, NFC-based applications, or systems integration is preferred. Background in engineering, sales engineering, or pre-sales consulting with international exposure will be an advantage.

Work style and capability expectations

The role requires independent judgment, strong planning, structured problem solving, project coordination across internal and external stakeholders, and the ability to travel as needed.

Tokenization and wallet initiatives

• Drive and oversee tokenization strategy across SSA markets.
• Coordinate regional third-party workstreams to launch market-specific tokenization use cases.
• Manage global third-party wallet activities, including providers such as Apple, Google, and Samsung, to support local tokenization launches.
• Run and support regional discussions with global wallet partners.
• Contribute to business development opportunities by helping shape pitches, RFP responses, and client proposals.
• Work with regional solutions teams to define use-case availability and market requirements.
• Provide pre-sales technical integration guidance for Visa Digital Solutions SDK, VTS token requestor APIs, and issuer APIs through the Visa Developer Center.
• Support wallet integrations for global third-party providers and assist business development, client services, and regional solutions teams.
• Lead rollout of VTS programs such as Secure Credential Framework across the region.

Visa Accept and transit solutions

• Own and advance the Visa Accept strategy across West African markets.
• Support transit technology partners, acquirers, and merchant aggregators.
• Help shape product and market requirements for Visa Accept and transit roadmaps.
• Offer pre-sales technical direction to regional solution vendors, payment facilitators, and acquirers.
• Lead integration, certification, and pilot launches across SSA.
• Monitor pilot results for Visa Accept and transit solutions and report progress to global teams.
• Feed regional requirements into global roadmap planning.

Product performance management

• Monitor client solution delivery and launch outcomes.
• Prepare routine status updates and performance reports.

Core product management duties

• Act as the subject matter expert for merchant solutions and tokenization.
• Collaborate across functions to deliver strong proximity payment experiences and related capabilities.
• Define and support new use cases, concepts, and product requirements for the Visa Token Service platform.
• Provide product and technology support to local and regional teams across the platform and related sub-functions.
• Set key performance metrics to support reliable feature delivery and ongoing improvement.
• Use creative problem solving to identify technical solutions that support business goals.
• Bring energy, customer focus, and enthusiasm for payments and emerging technologies.
• Work effectively in highly collaborative teams without direct reporting authority.
• Influence backlog prioritization to help deliver the product vision, roadmap, and market outcomes.

Minimum qualifications

Visa considers candidates with a Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of work experience, or an advanced degree and at least 4 years of work experience, or a PhD with no prior work experience.

The role also requires at least 1 year of progressively responsible experience in product development for mobile payments, mobile application platforms, or payments systems integration.

EEO statement

Visa is committed to fair hiring and equal treatment for all qualified applicants.