Product Market Lead - South Hub
Betway Africa · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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You'll take ownership of work that gives us our competitive edge, including:
- Ensuring products are locally relevant, competitive, and high‑performing across assigned markets
- Translate regional insights into clear product requirements and enhancements
- Support scalable market expansion through structured and repeatable approaches, catering for localisation needs and best practices.
- Drive consistency in market understanding, performance tracking, and opportunity identification
- Develop a deep understanding of customer behaviour, market dynamics, cultural nuances and regulatory constraints
- Ensure product experiences are tailored to meet local market expectations including, features and functionality, user experience and journeys
- Work with relevant product pillars to ensure effective implementation.
- Continuously refine localisation strategies to improve customer engagement and conversion
- Monitor and analyse the competitive landscape within each market.
- Track competitor offerings, positioning, and innovation trends.
- Identify opportunities for differentiation and strategic advantage.
- Proactively surface insights and recommendations to influence product direction.
- Ensure market needs are represented in product planning and prioritisation.
- Work with optimisation team to track product performance at a market level, identifying growth opportunities and performance gaps, driving continuous improvement initiatives
- Act as the regional hubs point of contact for all product related matters.
- Communicate insights, risks, and opportunities clearly to stakeholders.
- 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
- 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
- Proactive, structured, and outcome-driven mindset
- Strong experience in product, market strategy, or regionalised roles, ideally within digital or betting environments
- Deep understanding of localisation, customer behaviour, and market dynamics
- Strong analytical capability with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
- Experience in competitive analysis and market intelligence
- Proven ability to work cross‑functionally and influence product decision‑making
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to operate in fast‑moving, multi‑market environments
- Structured, proactive, and solution‑oriented mindset
Desirable skills you've got up your sleeve
It would be great if you also have some of the following skills
- Experience scaling capabilities in high-growth environments
- Strong understanding of product ecosystems, integrations, and data
- Experience working within regulatory or compliance-driven environments
- Familiarity with analytics and performance tools
- Experience with agile product operating models at scale