Senior Product Owner

Posted:
7/9/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ⋅ England, United Kingdom ⋅ Western Cape, South Africa ⋅ London, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Remote

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Purpose of the role:

As a Senior Product Owner, you’ll take complete ownership and responsibility of the success of multiple Betway products.

Working closely with the Product Manager, you’ll set the product vision, strategy and roadmaps based on a deep understanding of the customer. You’ll define key product metrics in order to measure success towards your vision.

You’ll balance the needs of stakeholders and customers to build innovative features that our customers love.

You’ll need to forge strong relationships with neighbouring functions such as UI/UX, customer experience and engineering in order to drive towards your product vision. You’ll be a mentor to Product Owners across the department.

You will be responsible for:

  • Work with the product manager to measure success by monitoring and continuously improving Product KPIs.
  • Work towards the product strategy and vision, and create buy-in both internally and with key external partners
  • Create and maintain the high-level prioritised product roadmap based on data/analytics, customer feedback, competition and stakeholder input
  • Use customer research and data to create proof-of-concept innovations to the product lifecycle
  • Collaborate with external third-party partners, business stakeholders and product teams to ensure delivery timelines for dependencies
  • Gain a deep understanding of customer experience in order to identify and fill gaps, and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
  • Assess market competition by comparing the company's products to competitors' products
  • Scope and prioritise activities based on business goals, objectives and customer impact
  • Drive and present product launches working with stakeholders
  • Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
  • Work with technical architects to plan the implementation of the roadmap
  • Seek learning from the product community and share findings with the business
  • Coordinate and facilitate technical feasibility of solutions
  • Keep stakeholders and the wider business informed of progress of the product, vision and goals of the product
  • Leads and influences the rest of development team to drive towards product goals

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

You will have (Essential skills):

  • Proven work experience as a Senior Product Owner (Minimum 1 year in role)
  • Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful B2C product throughout its lifecycle
  • Demonstrable experience in a/b testing
  • Capability to make iterative progress towards a product vision
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills (both oral and written)

It would be a bonus if you also had (Desirable skills):

  • Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development
  • Experience in working with remote teams
  • Previous experience in customer retention

Behavioural Competencies:

Our culture is underpinned by core values that are linked to key behavioural competencies. Along with the below behavioural competencies, these are essential for all employees to embed in and drive our culture forward. These competencies are Adaptability, Ownership & Accountability, Initiating Action, Resilience, Team Orientation, Integrity and Innovation


*Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.

*Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.
 

This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details - therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.


Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.

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