Product Manager
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Drive strategic product development by partnering with editorial leadership to transform business objectives and content strategy into clear product requirements, while maintaining exceptional product quality through continuous refinement and optimization
- Identify and capitalize on market opportunities within the digital media landscape, leveraging competitive intelligence to drive product innovation and iteration based on performance analytics and user insights
- Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure seamless technical implementation, assess feasibility constraints, and deliver robust solutions that meet editorial and business requirements
- Collaborate with design teams to craft exceptional, user-centered experiences for both internal editorial tools and consumer-facing digital products, ensuring intuitive functionality and world-class usability
- Own product lifecycle management while proactively supporting the Netwerk24 editorial team's operational needs and ensuring optimal product performance and user satisfaction
- Champion process optimization by identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance content creation, editing, and publishing workflows through automation and efficiency improvements
- Serve as the key liaison between content creators, developers, and stakeholders, providing expert troubleshooting for product issues while ensuring clear communication and swift resolution
- Build data-driven insights through the development of comprehensive dashboards and reporting tools that empower the Netwerk24 editorial team with actionable analytics and performance metrics
- Bachelor's degree/Diploma in a relevant field
- A minimum of 5+ years of product management experience of which include 4 years in a digital media or content platforms
- Obsession with creating delightful user experiences
- Data and research driven, analytical approach to features and changes
- Proven track record of delivering business value
- Comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Proficiency to manage a diverse workload and assign priorities to tasks
- Familiarity and significant experience with agile and lean processes
- Thorough knowledge of prevailing and emerging mobile trends and technologies
- Experience working on web and mobile products
- An exceptional communicator with presentation experience. Able to convey complex concepts in a simple and digestible manner
- Sound judgment
- Analytical thinking
- Planning and organising
- Good verbal communication - Afrikaans would be preferable but not a prerequisite
- Organized and meticulous
- Pro-active
- Quality-orientated
- Professional, assertive, and responsible
- A team player
- Graad of diploma in die relevante rigting;
- 'n Minimum van vyf jaar ervaring in produkbestuur, wat vier jaar se ervaring in die digitale media of by inhoudgedrewe platforms insluit;
- 'n Passie daarvoor om 'n goeie verbruikerservaring te skep;
- Die vermoë om produkontwikkeling met die hulp van data en 'n analitiese uitkyk te benader;
- 'n Bewese rekord in die ontsluiting van waarde vir 'n besigheid;
- Bemaklik met dubbelsinnigheid en verandering;
- Die vermoë om 'n verskeidenheid van take te bestuur en te prioritiseer;
- 'n Goeie kennis en ondervinding van die 'Agile' tegniese ontwikkelingsproses;
- Ervaring in web- en selfoongedrewe produkte, asook kennis van nuwe selfoontegnologie en trends;
- 'n Uitstekende kommunikeerder met ervaring daarin om voorleggings aan te bied en die vermoë om komplekse konsepte op 'n eenvoudige en maklik verstaanbare manier te verduidelik.
- Goeie oordeel;
- Analitiese denke;
- Goeie organisatoriese vermoëns;
- Goeie verbale kommunikasievaardighede (kennis van Afrikaans sal voordelig wees, maar dit is nie 'n noodsaaklikheid nie);
- Georganiseerd en deeglik;
- Pro-aktief;
- Gehalte georiënteerd;
- Professioneel, selfversekerd en verantwoordelik;
- 'n Spanspeler.