Junior Product Manager
No salary listed
Mid
Algiers [El Djazaïr], Algeria
Hybrid
ProductProduct Management
About the job
Requirements
- A minimum of 3 years of proven experience in product management with digital products or in a similar product role at a mobility, last-mile, or quick-delivery startup.
- A track record of launching consumer-facing digital products and services, in B2B or B2C.
- Experience working with scale-ups.
- Ability to create and execute a customer discovery process to gather pains and opportunities.
- Ability to design and run ideation workshops.
- Understanding of how to integrate analytics into a product to generate useful information.
- Understanding of branding and when it is important.
- Strong understanding of value proposition design and what makes for a successful venture.
- Knowledge of modern development practices such as agile and scrum.
- General understanding of the technical aspects of digital product development, with the ability to work closely with technical engineers.
- Strong design sense and ability to collaborate with designers.
- Ability to manage stakeholders across the business and clients.
- Fluency in English.
Responsibilities
- Co-create, coordinate, and facilitate the team's product discovery process.
- Work with cross-functional collaborators, including engineers, product designers, and marketers, to validate product ideas through product discovery frameworks and methods.
- Work closely with users and stakeholders to understand their needs and objectives, and develop a deep understanding of the problem space through workshops and research.
- Conduct secondary and primary research, prototyping, and experiments, including defining and understanding proto-personas, customer journeys, and customer interviews.
- Translate customer insights into prioritized product ideas or experiments to test in the market and with customers.
- Synthesize data to make strategic, evidence-based recommendations grounded in business, market, and customer needs.
- Facilitate and actively collaborate on business models, go-to-market plans, and early-traction tactics for products to be launched with clients, the product team, and other experts such as marketing.
- Facilitate agile ceremonies to deliver products or product initiatives on time and at the agreed quality.
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of lean startup techniques and what constitutes a good minimum viable product across B2B and B2C.
- A technical, consulting, or design background.
- Understanding of metrics and how to define them for different companies and products.
- Understanding of behavioral psychology and how to create products with high engagement and stickiness.
- Understanding of the growth process across acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue.
About the company
Yassir provides a multi-service platform that offers ride-hailing, last-mile delivery, and digital financial services across the Maghreb region and beyond. Users access these services through a single app that coordinates logistics for transportation and deliveries while providing tools to pay, save, and borrow money digitally. Unlike competitors that focus on a single service, Yassir integrates transportation and finance into one marketplace to build a comprehensive digital economy. The company's goal is to create a marketplace that serves daily needs and promotes financial inclusion while incorporating social values.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$180.3M
Headquarters
Algiers, Algeria
Founded
2016
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- March 2026 Yassir Market launches add physical distribution and higher-frequency grocery demand.
- Kawarizmi unlocks retail-media revenue from first-party data across open web and CTV.
- Senegal's September 2025 ruling preserved operations, keeping a live growth market open.
What critics are saying
- Yassir France entered liquidation in January 2026, exposing weak European expansion discipline.
- Retail and ad-tech integrations from March 2026 can distract management from core ride-hailing execution.
- A prolonged subsidy war with Yango, Heetch, and in-country regulators can crush unit economics.
What makes Yassir unique
- Yassir owns rides, delivery, payments, retail, and ad-tech across North Africa.
- March 2026 Uno and Kawarizmi acquisitions deepen data, logistics, and merchant monetization.
- Its 45-city network and Yassir Cash create switching costs for consumers and merchants.
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Benefits
- Stock Options
- Remote Work Options
- Paid Holidays
- Flexible Work Hours