Head of Platform

Betway Africa · Johannesburg, Gauteng

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What you'll do

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
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