Senior Program Manager

Paystack’s mission is to accelerate digital payments on the continent of Africa. Over 200K of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway.

In just over 10 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more.

We make it easy for businesses to accept secure payments from multiple local and global payment channels, and then we provide tools to help you retain existing customers, and acquire new ones.

• Own and drive execution of multiple high-priority programs across Infrastructure and Security (often in parallel), from initiation through delivery.
• Partner closely with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to define goals, scope, success metrics, milestones, and delivery plans.
• Act as the coordination layer between the Infrastructure and Security teams and Engineering, ensuring requests, projects, and dependencies are tracked, prioritised, and followed through.
• Partner with the Security Compliance team to coordinate audit activities.
• Build and maintain program plans (work breakdowns, schedules, dependency maps, RAID logs).
• Identify, track, and proactively mitigate risks and blockers; escalate early with clear options and trade-offs.
• Drive cross-team alignment on technical approach, sequencing, and operational readiness for programs under delivery.
• Communicate progress clearly to stakeholders.
• Continuously improve delivery processes and tooling.

• 6+ years of program/project management experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Proven ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and security domains.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• A proactive approach to risk identification and mitigation.
• Experience using AI tools to automate repetitive project operations.