Product Manager: Platform & Transactions
Lesaka Technologies · Western Cape
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- This role owns the engine every product rides on. A voucher purchase, an electricity token and a bill payment are all, underneath, a transaction that must authorise, reconcile and settle reliably. You own that shared capability across all verticals- reliability, integrations, scale and cost-to-serve, so the products don't each solve the same plumbing problem three different ways.
What you'll own
- Drive transaction success rates, latency and uptime across every product vertical.
- Own the integration roadmap, new payment methods, aggregators and partner APIs with reusable patterns that cut onboarding time.
- Define the non-functional requirements throughput, latency, failover that engineering builds against.
- Benchmark our rails against the market- settlement speed, failure rates, payment-method coverage and close the gaps that matter.
- Drive cost-to-serve down through smarter routing and retry/recovery frameworks.
- Filter genuine systemic reliability problems from one-off incidents, and prioritise accordingly.
What you bring
- 3+ years in product management on platform, payments, transactional or infrastructure products.
- Strong grasp of transaction flows, integrations and non-functional requirements.
- Ability to read transaction and failure data and turn it into a prioritised roadmap.
- Confidence partnering closely with engineering on architecture trade-offs without owning the sprint.
- A reliability and cost mindset you treat uptime and unit economics as product features.
Nice to have
- Experience with payment switches, aggregators or token vending.
- Exposure to high-volume, low-latency transaction environments.
Closing Date 10 October 2026