Product Owner

Looking for a highly talented Product Owner  - Mid-Level to join a Product Team in Cape Town.

You will be responsible for driving the execution and on time delivery of growth features and conversion rate optimisations within  apps. You will work cross-functionally across the product, UX, engineering and growth teams to design, implement, launch and measure features that have a direct impact on the growth of the business.

• Manage the execution and rollout of growth related features.  This includes the entire product development cycle from design, implementation, testing and launch to success metric monitoring.
• Collaborate and communicate cross functionally across product, UX, engineering and growth teams to ensure quality execution and timely delivery of growth and conversion rate optimisation features.
• Gather business requirements and act as the primary link between business stakeholders and the engineering team.
• Write detailed product specification documents to define the business needs and requirements for our engineering teams
• Maintain and prioritise the product growth backlog through collaboration with multiple business stakeholders and senior management. 
• Collaborate closely with data analysts to monitor and analyse product metrics in order to identify opportunities for conversion rate optimisations and features that will drive product growth.
• Own and maintain the accuracy of analytics instrumentation (i.e in app events),  to ensure product analytics is reliable for the business to generate actionable insights.
• Support the growth team by ensuring customer data points reflect correctly in the CRM and marketing attribution platforms.

• At least 3+ years minimum experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a tech/mobile application company with a history of growth (Preferably in an eCommerce and mobile environment).
• Tertiary education degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Information Systems or relevant industry experience in a similar field would be beneficial.
• Proven track record of delivering world-class software products.
• Proven ability to formulate and manage a detailed product roadmap.
• Proven track record of collaborating and communicating effectively with engineering teams and business stakeholders to deliver product features.
• Excellent understanding of conversion rate optimisation and funnel analysis.
• Excellent understanding of the mobile app development cycle.
• Experience with analysing data and making data driven product decisions. (SQL or GBQ experience beneficial)
• Experience with product analytics tools such as Firebase, Google Analytics or Amplitude would be beneficial.
• Experience with Invision, Balsamiq, Sketch or similar tools for wireframing/designing solutions.
• Understanding of the mobile app ecosystem and the importance of  acquisition and retention in the app economy.
• Basic understanding of technology stacks, databases, APIs and IP technologies.
• High level of proficiency with MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Google Suite, JIRA, Slack, and comfortable with learning new applications as required