Technical Product Manager - DevEx

Wave Mobile Money is building financial services to help make Africa the first cashless continent. The Technical Product Manager - DevEx will improve the developer experience by removing friction from engineering and product workflows through tooling, process improvements, experimentation, and pragmatic use of AI. The role also involves defining product strategy, conducting user research, managing the DevEx team, and prioritizing productivity initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers with full ownership of how we deliver new features for our users and use AI solutions to remove impactful friction for our engineers and product managers
• Define product goals, metrics, and roadmaps based on user needs and mission impact
• Drive user research within our engineering and product teams
• Write clear, compelling design docs and facilitate async, fast-moving decision-making
• Over-communicate context, priorities, and decisions to ensure team alignment
• Adjust priorities quickly based on feedback, experiments, or new learnings
• Solve problems holistically, whether through product features, ops tooling or process changes
• Own the developer experience holistically, including any internal or external tooling needed to support it
• Research and implement solutions for how we can use AI to remove engineering and development friction
• Build your own prototypes to test ideas where possible
• Relentlessly gather feedback (by talking to users and looking at data) to deeply understand the problem space and our engineers' and product managers' needs
• Work from first principles to understand the engineers' and product managers' biggest problems and then figure out how our tooling should work to solve those problems
• Prioritize the biggest problems blocking the engineers' and product managers' productivity and the impact on delivering value to our users fast and securely
• Directly manage the DevEx team to help them grow in their careers, partnering with the Tech Lead, who will own the technical bar

Requirements:

• • Have 3+ years of product management experience and hands-on engineering background (you've shipped production code) or direct PM ownership of a developer experience, or developer productivity function
• • Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle, such as user research, design, implementation and evaluation
• • Speak fluent English
• • Resonate deeply with how we do product and have experience working that way.
• • Are continuously iterating on using AI in real workflows with honest evaluation
• • Are a strong communicator who can inspire and lead by influence
• • Are great at coordinating across teams and excel at communicating across multiple cultures
• • Take ownership for outcomes and do whatever you can to make them close to inevitable
• • Have strong instincts for asking questions that could move the needle
• • Have the courage and persistence to replan when feedback or new information arrives
• • Always listen with empathy but ruthlessly prioritize based on impact
• • Bonus if you:
  • Have proven experience with successfully rolling out AI-based solutions in a larger org
  • Have professional experience in a consumer fintech company