Manager Product - Front-End

Betway Africa · Johannesburg, Gauteng

Stop applying one at a time.

JobAlertsZA auto-applies to South African jobs like this one for you, overnight. Upload your CV once — we do the applying.

Start free — we apply for you →

What you'll do

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
Auto-apply to this jobView original posting ↗
Manager Product - Front-End at Betway Africa — Johannesburg, Gauteng · JobAlertsZA