Product Owner
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 23, 2026.
Do you want tobe part of a dynamic team constantly challenging the status quo and finding "smarter" ways of doing things? If you answered yes, keep reading.
Who Are We?
1Nebula is a next-generation SaaS Technology Business focused on providing businesses with cloud & technology expense management services and tools to accelerate their cloud journey.
We hire amazing people from across South Africa, making our diverse group of team members, called N48Xers, a force to be reckoned with.
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Job Opportunity at 1Nebula:
The product owner is the lead user of the product with a solid understanding of our clients, users, the cloud, information technology and telecoms market, the competition, and of future trends in the industry. They direct teams on what features the product will have and support the adoption of the product within our clients and thus need to understand the telecoms and enterprise domain to make sound decisions.
What You will do within this role (Your key responsibilities):
Strategic Planning
- Defining the vision of the product and its roadmap.
- Manage multiple streams of requests into Product Backlog
- Market trends analysis
- Go to market strategy
- Budget and ROI management
- Alignment with Marketing and Sales objectives and KPI’s
Operational Management
- Translating the roadmap into product backlog with prioritised feature list.
- Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
- Analyse and improve processes related to the use of the product internally and at clients
- Maintain good 3rd party relationships for the product (e.g. Microsoft, Telecoms Service Providers, client integrated systems).
- Manage the rollout of the product to new clients and increase the adoption rate of new features in existing clients.
Product Administration
- Write well-formed User Stories with acceptance criteria to enable development teams.
- Prepare and present the target deliverables in the Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Backlog grooming)
- Maintain effective documentation and training material like user guides on the product.
- Support initial customer engagement by demonstration material, customer onboarding documentation as well as ensuring overall product documentation and training is accurate and up to date.
- Manage UAT’s and prioritisation of UAT feedback with stakeholders
- Act as the primary point of contact between internal and external clients and the development team.
More about You (Our requirements for the role):
Although we believe in the potential of others more than anything else there aresome minimumrequirementswe would look for so consider these before sending us your application
- You hold a tertiary qualification in a relevant field with preference given to Information Technology or Information Systems degrees.
- Additional certifications such as Certified Product Owner course or Business Analysis diploma will be highly beneficial.
- 2-3 years’ experience in a similar capacity (or business analysis) within software development environments is essential to success in this role.
- Prior exposure to cloud technologies will be highly beneficial.
- You are self-organized, driven and able to manage multiple projects.
- You have a strong orientation towards continuous learning, and enjoy working within entrepreneurial environments
- You are self-reliant and have a good understanding of development workflows
Our Amazing Perks!
- Enjoy 20 Leave days a year plus a “mulligan day” each quarter after meeting all your deliverables. That’s4 extra leave days annually!
- High spec laptops and equipment for you to comfortably work remotely.
- A once off athome office allowance to set up your home office.
- Flexible working hours. We work on a flexible schedule from Monday to Friday where you can make the hours work for you.
- Access to our Well-being program and Employee support services - we believe in work/life balance being of utmost importancefor you and your family so this perk is for them too.
- Grow your skills and learn something new with paid forMicrosoft courses and certifications.
- Take up a hobby and unlock a training allowance every 2 years to do something non-work related.
- Give back by participating in our Culture and Social Responsibility initiatives.
- Free Gap coverand a relaxed/hybridwork environment.
Your Application
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