Head of Platform
Betway Africa · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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You'll take ownership of work that gives us our competitive edge, including:
- Own the core product platform portfolio, ensuring alignment across front-end and back-end systems
- Define and drive platform strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term capabilities
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of product managers, analysts, and specialists
- Enable fast and reliable product development across the organisation
- Ensure the platform supports current and future product requirements across brands and markets
- Drive consistency in APIs, data contracts, and shared services
- Partner closely with Engineering and Product Operations to deliver cohesive solutions
- Clearly communicate platform trade-offs, priorities, and dependencies to senior stakeholders
- Ensure platform initiatives are well-defined, scoped, and prioritised before delivery
- Hold teams accountable for delivering high-quality platform outcomes
- Operationalise governance around platform ownership, integration standards, documentation, and lifecycle management
- Ensure platform decisions consider operational risk, scalability, and long-term sustainability
- Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, driving continuous platform improvement
- Leverage analytics and performance insights to assess platform health
- Ensure platform considerations are embedded into broader product strategy and planning
- Build scalable team structures aligned to growth and complexity
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and data-driven decision-making
- Translate company strategy into platform KPIs and measurable outcomes
- Drive innovation by identifying and enabling new capabilities, technologies, and platform improvements that support product growth and scalability
- Partner with relevant business stakeholders to shape and prioritise new feature development, ensuring world class customer experiences
- This list covers your core responsibilities – with plenty of room to stretch, explore and take on new challenges as we grow.
What you'll bring
You're someone who brings
- Strong experience in product management, preferably within betting, gaming, or regulated environments
- Extensive experience leading platform or systems-driven product teams
- Strong understanding of complex back-end systems and front-end architectures
- Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to align platform strategy with broader business objectives
- Excellent planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives in high-pressure environments
- Strong commercial judgement and ability to balance technical and business priorities
- Experience with delivery methodologies and product frameworks
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making capability
- Proactive, structured, and outcome-driven mindset
Desirable skills you've got up your sleeve
It would be great if you also have some of the following skills
- Experience scaling platform capabilities in high-growth environments
- Strong understanding of API ecosystems, integrations, and data architecture
- Experience working within regulatory or compliance-driven systems
- Familiarity with platform analytics and performance tools
- Experience with agile product operating models at scale