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Kagiso Nkosi

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Group Product Manager at Ferro Foods | ex-Microsoft

Works at
Ferro Foods
Location
Cape Town, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
Experience
9+ years experience
Education
Covenant University
Languages
English, Afrikaans
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

Group Product Manager at Ferro Foods, focused on lending. Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for. Grew lending revenue from $2 million to $50 million ARR. Most at home with underwriting and product strategy. I read too many books about cities.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about lending
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Feature requests for my employer's product
  • Crypto token projects

Prefers short, specific messages

Skills
compliancecreditunderwritingproduct strategy
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Building out lending at Ferro Foods: product managers wanted in Cape Town

Role
Product manager
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$178k-$218k
Team
Lending, 6 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with product strategy Production experience with credit Ownership of something end to end
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $143k-$305k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Cape Town, South Africa · remote OKproduct strategyunderwritingcredit
Open

Experience

  1. Group Product Manager
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Ferro Foods · 11 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Launched the lending product in 12 markets.
    • Ran 49 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  2. Product Manager
    Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
    Microsoft · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Feb 2022 - Jun 2024
    Visa · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Launched the lending product in 11 markets.
  4. Product Manager
    Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
    Interswitch · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 18 days to 3.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
    Absa · 1 yr 1 mo · Contract · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Grew lending revenue from $4 million to $17 million ARR.
    • Took lending activation from 28% to 39% in three quarters.

Projects

Write-up: lending in practice
2022

A long-form guide to lending for people starting out.

Side project: a recipe search engine
2022

Built with underwriting and product strategy. 859 people used it last year.

References

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Education

  1. Covenant University
    BEng, Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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