This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Product Owner based in South Africa.
As a Product Owner, you will turn high-level product strategy into clearly defined initiatives and measurable results. You’ll own the journey from product goals to execution, ensuring teams understand what needs to be built, why it matters, and how success will be measured. Working in a fully remote, international, and agile environment, you’ll collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Legal and Compliance, Marketing, and Project teams. You’ll balance user needs, business priorities, data, and regulatory considerations to make informed product decisions. The role offers significant ownership and the opportunity to shape products at the intersection of fintech, payments, and digital assets. Your work will directly influence product delivery, customer experience, and business growth.
Accountabilities
- Translate high-level product strategy and roadmaps into well-defined epics, requirements, initiatives, and actionable deliverables for product and engineering teams.
- Maintain a deep understanding of the context behind each initiative, including business objectives, user needs, market dynamics, and regulatory constraints.
- Own and continuously prioritize the product backlog, challenging scope and removing low-value work to keep teams focused on the initiatives with the greatest impact.
- Drive execution from planning through delivery by monitoring timelines, identifying risks and blockers early, and ensuring commitments are delivered on time and to the expected standard.
- Conduct business and product analysis by examining data, user journeys, edge cases, and product requirements to identify opportunities and solve problems effectively.
- Write clear requirements, user flows, acceptance criteria, and other documentation needed to translate product objectives into shippable solutions.
- Validate delivered features and solutions to ensure they address the original problem and generate the intended user and business outcomes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Legal and Compliance, Marketing, and Project teams to maintain alignment around goals, scope, priorities, and delivery.
- Serve as the central point of reference for product scope, priorities, status, trade-offs, and key decisions.
- Provide executives and other stakeholders with clear, structured updates on progress, risks, decisions, and delivery outcomes.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional product experience in a Product Owner or Product Manager role, ideally within fintech, crypto, payments, or a closely related environment.
- Strong practical understanding of crypto products and infrastructure, including wallets, on/off-ramps, crypto cards, and trading; this domain knowledge is essential for the role.
- Strong business analysis capabilities, including requirements gathering, user-flow analysis, product discovery, and data-informed decision-making.
- Familiarity with SQL or business intelligence tools is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively across Engineering, Design, Compliance, and business functions.
- Strong execution and organizational skills, with the ability to transform broad or ambiguous objectives into clear, measurable, and deliverable plans.
- Excellent prioritization skills and the confidence to challenge scope and make decisions based on business and user impact.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with attention to detail and an understanding of product edge cases and dependencies.
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken, with the ability to create clear requirements and communicate confidently with diverse stakeholders.
- A high level of ownership, accountability, adaptability, and willingness to learn in a fast-moving product environment.
Benefits
- Fully remote work within an agile, international team.
- Competitive salary based on individual experience and performance.
- Opportunities for career progression and ongoing professional development.
- A high-ownership culture that values transparency, open communication, and measurable impact.
- The opportunity to work on mission-critical fintech and digital-asset products where security, transparency, and technical excellence are fundamental.
- Exposure to complex challenges at the intersection of payments, crypto infrastructure, compliance, and emerging financial technologies.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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