Senior Product Owner (Retail / Logistics)
Sabenza IT Recruitment · Cape Town
Posted 5 August 2026
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An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Lead Product Owner to lead the delivery of innovative digital commerce solutions within a fast-paced Agile environment. This role is responsible for defining product vision, driving product strategy, managing multiple complex products, and ensuring the successful delivery of customer-centric digital experiences.
Working closely with business stakeholders, architects, designers, developers, and Agile teams, you will translate business objectives into high-value product features while balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and commercial outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, own, and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Lead solution design for new features while ensuring the best customer experience and considering backend impacts.
- Facilitate requirements gathering workshops and engage stakeholders to define, validate, and sign off business requirements.
- Create and manage the product backlog, ensuring user stories are clearly written with detailed acceptance criteria.
- Prioritize and sequence the backlog to maximize business value and support Agile Program Increment (PI) objectives.
- Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure delivered solutions align with business requirements and customer expectations.
- Collaborate with architects and technical teams to review solution designs, integrations, APIs, data flows, and microservices.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, System Demos, ART Sync, and Inspect & Adapt sessions.
- Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and obtain business sign-off before production releases.
- Develop release plans and monitor product delivery against business objectives.
- Drive digital customer engagement and omnichannel experiences that improve customer acquisition, retention, and conversion.
- Use customer insights, analytics, and business data to continuously improve products and customer journeys.
- Produce regular product reporting, progress updates, and stakeholder communications.
- Act as a subject matter expert while mentoring and coaching Product Owners and promoting Agile best practices across teams.
Posted By
Micaela Nero