Product Area Director

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Progressive IT Resourcing Full time
Job Details

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Area Lead to join our team at Progressive IT Resourcing. As a Product Area Lead, you will be responsible for leading 2 or more full stack engineering teams in accelerating autonomous value creation through Insights and Machine Learning across our organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish a compelling product vision and ensure that you and your team are always able to articulate how the world for your users will be different because of your products.
  • Establish, gain funding for, and deliver an ambitious transformative roadmap for your products, ensuring effective allocation of all approved engineering and financial resources.
  • Give your team the context and clarity they need to deliver the roadmap, writing detailed PRD's that clarify 'the what' for development teams effectively.
  • Define and measure team success openly, defining or refining success metrics and Service Level Objectives (SLO's) for the platform to cover adoption, satisfaction, cost, and reliability.
  • Develop and retain world-class product management talent, hiring, coaching, and collaborating with product managers who report to you.

Requirements:

  • 7+ years' experience in leading data platform teams with at least 2 in a modern context with cloud technologies and autonomous high-performing team organizational patterns.
  • Experience owning and managing a budget, including resource planning from storage and compute costs to cost of team development and retention.
  • A track record of high impact and investing in your own development.

Skills & Thinking Preference:

  • Ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders across the organization.
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills.
  • High agency, high ownership in everything you do.
  • Strong conviction in our ability to innovate and bring financial services and financial confidence to everyone across the continent.
  • Love creating more with less.
  • Seek out and value different perspectives.

Personal Attributes:

  • Manages complexity - Contributing through others.
  • Plans and aligns - Contributing through others.
  • Optimises work processes - Contributing through others.
  • Strategic mindset - Contributing independently.
  • Collaborates - Contributing independently.

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