Head of Product

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Role Type: Full-time, office-based (with potential for hybrid working in the future)

Salary: Negotiable, dependent on experience

Executive Summary

• Own the product roadmap, prioritisation, and delivery across an internal AI product portfolio

• Lead the development of a flagship AI platform and supporting internal products

• Work closely with an in-house engineering team to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions

• Use customer feedback and product usage data to inform strategy and roadmap decisions

• Report directly to the CEO and contribute to the overall business strategy

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the product roadmap across internal products, prioritising by business value, user impact, and technical effort

• Write clear PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria to support effective delivery

• Translate usage data and stakeholder feedback into refined backlog items and requirements

• Lead product discovery and validation with internal users and client teams

• Partner closely with developers throughout delivery to ensure quality and alignment

• Coordinate release planning, product launches, and internal rollouts alongside commercial teams

• Define product usage metrics and work with engineering to build dashboards

• Ensure evaluation and acceptance testing are embedded into delivery processes

• Generate and refine new product ideas across the wider product portfolio

Person Specification Essential

• 35+ years of experience delivering B2B SaaS products with clear ownership of roadmap and delivery

• Strong experience translating product strategy into PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria

• Practical familiarity with generative AI tools and exposure to AI or ML-driven products

• Comfortable working closely with engineers and designers, making informed technical trade-offs

• Proven experience running discovery, validation, and converting insights into a deliverable scope

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

• Based in Cape Town with the legal right to work in South Africa, and able to work on-site

Person Specification Desirable

• UX/UI design exposure or hands-on experience with user r
  

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