Product Owner
South Africa Gauteng Johannesburg
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Product Owner
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As a Product Owner, you will be at the forefront of our product development, leading our software development engine room to design, build, and launch market-leading solutions. We’re looking for someone who is not just a product expert, but also a passionate innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit. You’ll be responsible for driving the product vision, identifying emerging opportunities, and ensuring the product aligns with both the clients’ market needs and their company’s strategic goals.
Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Vision & Strategy: Define and evolve a customer-centric product vision aligned with business goals and market trends.
- Market Insight: Analyze industry trends, user feedback, and competitors to inform the product roadmap.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Guide teams across engineering, design, and marketing to deliver on the product vision.
- Agile Execution: Manage and prioritize the backlog, ensuring efficient, value-driven delivery in an Agile setup.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Align internal and external stakeholders through clear communication and feedback loops.
- Customer Advocacy: Champion initiatives that enhance user experience and solve real customer problems.
- Innovation Culture: Promote experimentation, creativity, and calculated risk-taking.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Define KPIs and iterate strategies based on performance metrics and analytics.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 3+ years as a Product Owner or similar, delivering innovative products.
- Strategic, entrepreneurial mindset with strong initiative.
- Creative thinker with a drive to differentiate and improve.
- Proficient in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
- Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management.
- Deep customer empathy and user-focused mindset.
- Technically literate; able to work effectively with development teams.
- Strong analytical skills and data-informed decision-making.
- Proven leadership and collaboration in fast-paced settings.
Minimum Requirements
- Background in startups or high-growth environments is highly desirable.
- A Product Owner certification (or certifications) is highly desirable, preferably from organizations such as scrum.org.
- MBA or similar advanced business qualification is a plus.
- Experience with UX/UI design principles and methodologies. Experience using Figma to build wireframes would be a plus.
- Expert use of Jira and Confluence is a must.
- In depth understanding of the software development life cycle, particularly where continuous integration and delivery is practised.
- The ability to understand and interpret things which can be highly technical i.e. able to understand system architectures at a high level, and how they hang together.