About the position
This is a premier opportunity for a highly experienced, data-driven Senior Product Manager to immediately drive significant digital innovation for one of South Africa's most trusted news brands. This is a 6-month contract role the company is searching for a multi-skilled leader with exceptional interpersonal skills to join our fast-paced newsroom. This is a strategic, hands-on role where you will use your advanced product expertise to lead the development of innovative solutions and maintain company position at the forefront of the news landscape. The position could be based at Cape Town or Randburg offices
Responsibilities
- Strategic Product Leadership: Act as the strategic lead for enhancing and optimizing all of company's digital products, ensuring the highest standards in product quality and user experience.
- Innovation Driver: Develop and drive innovative concepts to enhance or create new digital publishing products, always focusing on improving the user experience and driving business value.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with technical and editorial teams to specify, prioritize, and manage product requirements (user stories, feature definitions).
- Operational Champion: Act as a senior advisor and operational champion for editorial and product queries, workflows, troubleshooting, and senior-level escalation.
- Market Intelligence: Monitor industry trends, technologies, and emerging best practices to keep companies ahead of the curve and inform strategic product direction.
- Product Lifecycle Management: Manage the entire product lifecycle for both existing digital assets and emerging projects across the companies
- Execution & Optimization: Lead product rollouts, testing, training, and continuous optimization efforts.
Experience and Qualification
- Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (a post-graduate qualification is a distinct advantage).
- Experience: A minimum of 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years in a dedicated digital/mobile environment, and a proven track record in a senior or leadership capacity.
- Methodology: Significant experience with Agile and Lean product development methodologies.
- Data Fluency: Highly data-driven and analytically minded, with the proven ability to inform decision-making through research and insight.
- Technical Knowledge: Thorough knowledge of prevailing and emerging digital and mobile trends and technologies.
- Track Record: Consistent track record of successful product launches and driving significant, measurable business value.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and presentation skills; the confidence to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Expertise in managing diverse workloads and applying strategic prioritization to maximize ROI.
- Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and meticulous attention to detail.
- A professional, assertive, proactive, and quality-oriented approach
Work type
Desired Skills:
- Product management
- digital environment
- Lead product rollouts
