Software Product Manager

Software Product Manager

Our Client is looking for a Product Manager to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for managing the roadmap, leading product development and strategy, and driving digital innovation within the business whilst leading multiple teams to execute the strategy.

What you⬠"!ll do:

- Defining the product strategy/vision.
- Conducting market research and competitor
- Creating and maintaining product roadmaps for multiple
- Define and prioritize features based on value, feasibility, and strategic alignment, leveraging agile methodologies to drive rapid iteration and delivery
- Conducting Design Thinking Workshops
- Spearhead collaboration between Product Owners, Data Team, Security, Development Teams to deliver high- performance,





secure products.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with marketing, sales, and customer operations teams to ensure that technology solutions support customer and enhance service delivery.
- Monitor progress of software product development
- Plan and manage the release of software
- Regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change
- Lead the Product team, with a focus on mentorship for Product
- Monitor budgets against expenditure and manage software development
- Product Risk Management
- Build business cases as part of evaluating features and/or product
- Analyse and report on product metrics, with a focus on ROI and other

Your expertise:

- 7 + years⬠"! experience in software development in complex, high-performance software environments
- 5+ years of experience of end-to-end product ownership / senior business analyst role in either in consulting or industry.
- Experience with tools like JIRA, MS DevOps, MS Teams,






- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Agile Product Owner Certification (advantageous)
- Design Thinking/UX Certification (advantageous)
- Experience:

- Experience in launching digital products across
- Experience working in an Agile environment with cross-functional
- Experience working with Content management systems and Product
- Experience of working in and leading multi-disciplinary teams (Designers, Engineers, Product Owners, Architects) within a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining calm under pressure.
- Proven success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment.
- Fluency in a range of tech (inc. web, data, ERP, etc) to direct, inspire and drive technologists within agile

Skills and attributes:







- Deep understanding of iterative product development methodologies - such as SAFe and scrum methodologies.
- Ability to get into details to ensure successful execution while understanding the strategic level impact of the work.
- Able to translate and aggregate customer feedback into structured product ideas, roadmap backlog and plans to communicate the value of delivering a new service or feature.
- Comfortable collaborating on UX challenges with designers.
- Deep user empathy and experience, bringing together user research, insights data.
- Strong organization and documentation skills with the ability to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical infrastructure requirements.
- Working with the data, design and research teams to research,





prototype, test and validate ideas.
- Ability to work with and influence remote teams.
- Evidenced understanding and application of human centred design and delivery.

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

- Permanent Position
- Location: Johannesburg

▶️ Software Product Manager
🖊️ Johannesburg - 4 hours ago
📍 Johannesburg