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The Focus Group

Technical Product Manager

The Focus Group

  • R75,000 - R108,333 per month
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Johannesburg
  • Posted 10 Apr 2025 by The Focus Group
  • Expires in 19 days
  • Job 2601446
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About the position

Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Product Manager with experience in B2B SaaS and a strong background in launching products in global markets. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining product strategy, managing the end-to-end product lifecycle, and driving the success of technical solutions using a product-led growth (PLG) methodology.

This role is PERMANANT and will require collaboration across cross-functional (multi-disciplinary) teams, including engineering, digital transformation, finance, sales, marketing, the management committee and customer success.

 

Job Details:

Reporting Manager: CTO/ Dotted line to CEO

Direct Reports: N/A (Individual Contributor)

Location: Remote / Hybrid / Specific Location (if applicable)

Salary: Market-related, based on experience





Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and execute a strategic product roadmap for SaaS solutions, aligning with business objectives, cybersecurity best practices, customer needs, competitive insights, and third-party integrations.
  • Collaborate with engineering to define requirements, prioritise features, and drive product development from ideation to launch.
  • Lead global product launches with cross-functional coordination and ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
  • Implement a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, leveraging customer insights to enhance user experience and adoption.
  • Continuously monitor competitors, evaluate third-party solutions, and refine positioning for market differentiation.
 

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Technical Product Management within a SaaS B2B environment, with a proven track record of launching and scaling global
  • Strong expertise in Agile methodologies, product lifecycle management, and modern software development practices. A technical background in cloud computing, APIs, or DevSecOps with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
  • Experience implementing product-led growth (PLG) strategies, leveraging customer insights, user engagement analytics, and self-serve onboarding. Proficiency in product roadmap tools (e.g., Jira, Zoho Sprints, Planview) and a strong grasp of customer journey mapping, UX/UI principles, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Must have experience working with cross-functional teams in global remote settings and hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
 

Bonus Qualifications (Nice to Have):

  • Experience working with AI/ML, cybersecurity, or cloud-based
  • Knowledge of subscription-based business models and pricing
  • Product management disciples (e.g PRINCE II, PMBOK, AGILE).
 

Soft Skills:

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management
  • Ability to influence and drive alignment in cross-functional (multi-disciplinary)
  • High adaptability to fast-paced and evolving
  • Strong sense of ownership and

Desired Skills:

  • Agile
  • Product Launching
  • Software

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The Focus Group

About the agency

THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations. Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to • Source, assess and select the best possible human resources. • Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain. • Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential. • Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition. • Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.

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