Senior Product Manager Full Time Job

Senior Product Manager job vacancy in Johannesburg.

A leading operator in the South African iGaming and sports betting market is looking for a commercially minded, delivery-focused Senior Product Manager to take ownership of key digital product areas across sportsbook and gaming.

This is not a role for someone who wants to manage presentations from a safe distance. You will be close to the product, the customer journey, the data, and the delivery teams—turning business opportunities into well-defined, measurable product improvements.

You will partner with internal stakeholders and external technology providers to keep priorities sharp, releases moving, and customer experiences continuously improving.

What you will be responsible for:

• Own product direction and delivery
• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned sportsbook and/or gaming product areas.
• Manage, refine, and prioritise the product backlog in line with customer needs, commercial objectives, regulatory requirements, and delivery capacity.
• Convert business problems, operational feedback, and customer insights into concise product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain clear product artefacts, including specifications, roadmap inputs, release notes, decision records, and change documentation.
• Identify product gaps and opportunities, helping define the route from the current experience to the desired future state.
• Drive execution across teams and partners
• Serve as a key day-to-day contact for platform, content, data, and technology vendors.
• Coordinate product work across internal teams and third-party partners, actively managing dependencies, risks, and delivery blockers.
• Support release planning, UAT, defect prioritisation, and sign-off processes to ensure changes are fit for purpose before reaching customers.
• Keep stakeholders informed of delivery progress, changes in priority, and any material risks requiring action.
• Strengthen sportsbook and gaming experiences
• Apply practical knowledge of sportsbook, casino, or wider iGaming product mechanics to product decisions.
• Contribute to requirements involving sports data, event feeds, trading workflows, bet settlement, risk controls, and customer-facing betting journeys.
• Work closely with Risk, Fraud, Compliance, and Operations teams to ensure product changes support responsible gambling and regulated-market obligations.
• Help deliver experiences that are intuitive for customers while commercially effective for the business.
• Use insight to improve performance
• Monitor key product performance indicators and identify trends that require action.
• Partner with BI and analytics teams to build useful reporting and maintain visibility over product outcomes.
• Use customer behaviour, funnel performance, testing results, and operational feedback to inform prioritisation.
• Support optimisation initiatives across acquisition conversion, retention, engagement, bet mix, and margin performance.
• Build alignment across the business
• Develop strong working relationships with Marketing, BI, Operations, Compliance, VIP, Risk, Fraud, and Technology teams.
• Communicate product priorities and delivery updates clearly, without hiding behind product jargon.
• Contribute to leadership updates, governance materials, and planning discussions alongside the Head of Product.
• Ensure operational teams have sufficient visibility and readiness for upcoming product changes.

What you will bring:

• At least 3 years’ experience in product management, product ownership, or a closely related digital delivery role.
• Proven experience managing a product backlog from discovery through delivery and optimisation.
• Strong ability to write practical, unambiguous requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working across multiple business functions and with third-party technology providers.
• Confidence using data to assess performance, support decisions, and identify improvement opportunities.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to make complex delivery issues understandable and actionable.
• A highly organised, accountable approach to managing several workstreams in a fast-moving environment.
• A genuine interest in sports betting, online gaming, or the digital entertainment sector.

Advantageous experience:

• Previous experience within online sports betting, casino, iGaming, or a related platform provider environment.
• Working knowledge of sportsbook concepts such as betting markets, in-play journeys, odds, settlement, trading, or risk controls.
• Familiarity with gaming platform ecosystems, integrations, and third-party content providers.
• Exposure to regulated digital products, responsible gambling requirements, or compliance-led delivery.
• Understanding of the South African or broader African betting market.

You will join a product environment with genuine room to influence priorities, improve customer journeys, and help build a stronger proposition in a competitive market. The role offers meaningful ownership, visible impact, and the chance to work at the intersection of sport, entertainment, technology, and commercial performance.