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Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.\nJob Summary\nReporting to the Head of Digital Banking, the holder will drive the development, management, and enhancement of digital products offered by the bank. The holders primary focus will be creating, enhancing, delivering & management of the digital products. Further, they will manage & groom the product roadmap while prioritizing & reprioritizing in line with customer and business needs. Holder will play the core task of shaping the banks digital product portfolio, driving innovation, and delivering value to customers while achieving business objectives and maintaining a competitive superior products edge in the market.Job Description\nKey Accountabilities and Responsibilities\nProduct Strategy - 50%\nDevelop product visions that will drive successful product strategies and tactics in the fintech consumer space and platform models that will attract new partners, producers, and consumers.\nAs the Innovation steward, define an innovation strategy that is relevant for core innovations, adjacent innovations, and disruptive innovations.\nManage products through the product lifecycle right from development to decline and applying the right strategic focus for each phase of in the life cycle.\nDefine the right key performance indicators for each product and track these indicators to ensure that the product is meeting business goals, and that the product is meeting its strategy.\nContinuous review of product strategies taking into consideration; competition, product performance, trends and catapult bank goals and capabilities.\nVetting potential opportunities for strategic partnership, opportunity sizing and reviewing commercial and technical feasibilities for investment.\nOwning and driving the overall product road map in line with business needs, oversee implementation and delivery of the same within budget and commercial targets and cost effectively.\nDefine product strategy and align digital solution to meet the set revenue mission.\nProduct Management - 30%\nDesign the unit’s product management architecture and ensure its execution across all delivery actors.\nDefine best practices product management processes which includes Product vision, product strategy formulation, roadmap development.\nLink between commercial and technology teams to ensure to ensure optimal build for commercial value & alignment to GTM strategies.\nAssure effective governance of the unit’s practices in line with the Group policies and service standards.\nCraft and build the solutions for scale and distribution via digital and alternative channels.\nUphold operational excellence to meet the Audit and Enterprise risk framework of the Group.\nPeople Management - 20%\nBuild and grow high capability product teams, demonstrate success in hiring, coaching, developing, and enabling a team of product managers in a B2C, B2B business and ecosystems.\nLeading a team of product managers, Designers, working and collaborating with tech, vendors, partners, commercial, financial, legal compliance, marketing, and finance teams to ensure the solutions meet the criteria\nRole/person specification\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree from a reputable institution\nExperience\nAt least 8 years’ work experience, 3 of which should have been in a similar capacity with a proven track record.\n5 years of Product Management experience (i.e. creating strategic product roadmap(s) from conception to launch and working with cross-functional teams).\nExperience driving the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.\nKnowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, In-depth understanding of the various mobile banking platforms\nIn-depth understanding of Financial Technology (Fintech).\nMaintain up to date knowledge of competitor and local market activity\nKnowledge and Skills\nUnderstands financial concepts and terms, can use them to describe events and can incorporate the same in problem solving and decision making.\nAnticipates internal and or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues and leads process, product, or service improvements.\nAble to form a clear product vision that align the digital business goals with the overall company goals. Ensures that product strategies and product tactics are based align to product visons and goals thereof.\nAbsa Bank Kenya is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.\n***Application Deadline - 5th November 2026***\n Education\nBachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)","description_format":"text","description_chars":5304,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Property & Casualty Insurance","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-29T20:59:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":66,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.834,"p_room":0.788,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/absa-group-senior-product-manager-digital-banking","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/absa-group-senior-product-manager-digital-banking.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T20:13:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":27355,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5669},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5669"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fabsa-group-senior-product-manager-digital-banking"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fabsa-group-senior-product-manager-digital-banking"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fabsa-group-senior-product-manager-digital-banking"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/absa-group-senior-product-manager-digital-banking\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fabsa-group-senior-product-manager-digital-banking"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3483714}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"absa.co.za","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3483714},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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