We have an exciting new career opportunity for a Product Owner to join a leading online sports betting company and work remotely in South Africa. You will be part of a journey of understanding and delivering world-class products; understanding the commercial value of the product and features; weighing up the competitive advantage of features within our products. Theyre seeking a strategic mastermind to help them kick off the competition in the sports betting industry. Does this job sound like the perfect challenge for you? Keep reading!
Your key job responsibilities as the Product Owner in South Africa (Remote):
- Work with the various teams to define the vision of Product
- Partner with stakeholders and users across the organisation to develop, inform and execute on the product vision, strategy, road map, features, and prioritisation
- Collaborate with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs; translate them into product requirements
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritise backlog, stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy and changing requirements
- Monitor and evaluate product progress and maturity at each stage of the process lifecycle
- Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria
- Liaise with the product team and end-users to deliver updates (Feature progress, feature KPIs, roadshows)
- Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement
- Participate in Scrum meetings and product sprints
- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
- Research and analyse market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
- Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions
- Perform market research and competitor analysis
- Work in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks
- Assist in defining the user experience for internal/externals users
- Bachelors degree in computer science or any other relevant field
- 3+ years previous working experience as a Product Owner
- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles and common tools
- Experience in introducing Agile into a new space
- Outstanding communication skills
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and include data and KPIs in product briefs and backlogs to drive maximum value
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
