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The platform focuses especially on women and underserved, lower-income markets. You’ll own the product roadmap, the prioritised backlog and end-to-end delivery across several business initiatives and African markets. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Business and Operations to turn business needs into practical technology solutions.\n\nThis is a hybrid, full-time role starting in early November. It suits a technically fluent Product Owner who works directly with engineering teams and can take products from requirements through to production release. It is not a purely strategic Product Manager role. Key product areas include AI and machine learning, last-mile delivery technology, IoT/GPS and cold chain management, dashboards and analytics, and mobile app development.\n\nWhat you’ll be doing\n\n Own the full technology product lifecycle, from discovery and requirements definition through development, release and ongoing optimisation\n\n Define and maintain product roadmaps aligned with business objectives, operational priorities and customer needs\n\n Translate business and operational requirements into implementation concepts, epics, acceptance criteria and development-ready user stories\n\n Prioritise and refine the product backlog so that work is ready ahead of sprint planning\n\n Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives\n\n Drive delivery against sprint objectives, managing dependencies, risks, blockers and spillover\n\n Coordinate SIT, UAT, business validation and stakeholder sign-off, and work with QA to define test cases and regression requirements\n\n Coordinate production releases, go-live readiness and post-implementation support\n\n Manage multiple concurrent initiatives across different markets and stakeholder groups\n\n Support warehouse management, last-mile delivery, cold chain and digital platform solutions, and improve reporting, dashboards and business insights\n\n Monitor product performance using KPIs, customer feedback and operational data\n\n Keep senior Business, Operations and Technology stakeholders informed, manage expectations and resolve delivery challenges\n\nWhat you need\n\n 5–8 years’ experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager or in a similar technology product delivery role. This role is hands-on and delivery-focused, not purely strategic.\n\n A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field\n\n Proven experience taking digital products through the full lifecycle, working directly with software engineering teams\n\n A demonstrated ability to turn business requirements into epics and development-ready user stories\n\n Strong experience with roadmaps, backlog prioritisation and sprint readiness in Agile/Scrum environments\n\n Experience coordinating SIT, UAT, business sign-off and production releases\n\n A good understanding of software development processes, APIs, integrations and digital platforms\n\n Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Aha! or Trello\n\n A strong grasp of UI/UX principles and customer-centred product development\n\n An analytical, data-driven approach to prioritisation and decision-making\n\n Strong stakeholder management, communication and facilitation skills\n\nDesired Experience 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