Manager Product - Front-End
Betway Africa · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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You'll take ownership of work that gives us our competitive edge, including:
- Own and manage the end-to-end delivery of product initiatives across web and mobile platforms.
- Translate business and product requirements into clear deliverables in collaboration with design and engineering teams.
- Ensure alignment between backend capabilities and front-end execution, enabling seamless user experiences.
- Drive high-quality implementation, ensuring consistency, usability, and scalability across products.
- Act as the primary bridge between Product, Engineering, and Design teams, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
- Collaborate closely with backend teams to ensure front-end feasibility and optimal integration of services.
- Work with stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage expectations, and ensure delivery aligns to objectives.
- Oversee the integration of UX and UI design into front-end builds, ensuring design intent is accurately implemented.
- Ensure user journeys, interaction patterns, and visual components are cohesive and aligned to design standards.
- Partner with UX and UI leads to continuously improve customer experience and engagement.
- Monitor front-end performance metrics, identifying opportunities to improve usability and conversion.
- Support experimentation and optimisation initiatives
- Ensure front-end solutions are responsive, accessible, and aligned with best practices.
- Establish and maintain front-end development standards, best practices, and quality benchmarks.
- Ensure adherence to design systems, technical frameworks, and architectural guidelines.
- Drive consistency and reuse of components and patterns across products.
- Lead and manage the front-end product team, providing clear direction, prioritisation, and support to enable effective delivery.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and develop team members, supporting capability growth and career progression.
- 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 understanding of front-end technologies, architectures, and best practices
- Solid grasp of UX/UI principles and how they translate into front-end delivery
- Ability to bridge technical and business requirements effectively
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience managing cross-functional teams in agile environments
- Analytical mindset with focus on performance and optimisation
- Problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
Desirable skills you've got up your sleeve
- It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:
- Familiarity with A/B testing and data-driven design decisions.
- Good knowledge in online web application development, including front-end HTML5
- Bachelor's degree in Technology, Computer Science, Product Design, or a related field
- 5–8 years' experience in digital product, front-end delivery, or related roles
- Proven experience managing or leading cross-functional teams
- Experience working in agile product environments
- Exposure to both design UX/UI and engineering delivery strongly preferred