Technical Product Manager

SUMMARY:
TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER (for SME's)
Our esteemed client in Sandton is urgently seeking a Technical Product Manager for a permanent, on-site role
R60 000 – R75 000 CTC per month.

The role is responsible for the integrity, performance, and continuous improvement of a lending system serving South African SMEs, with a strong focus on solving key SME pain points. The successful candidate will also require a working understanding of data and analytics, as they will help define and deliver key system and product reporting outputs.
Able to understand architecture sufficiently to challenge scope, assess feasibility, and escalate meaningfully

POSITION INFO:
The role also requires a working understanding of data and analytics, as the TPM will be expected to help define and deliver key system and product reporting outputs. Able to understand architecture sufficiently to challenge scope, assess feasibility, and escalate meaningfully Preferred: Prior experience in fintech, lending, or regulated financial products Familiarity with PI planning or SAFe Agile frameworks Experience working across partner or multi-stakeholder delivery environments Able to understand architecture sufficiently to challenge scope, assess feasibility, and escalate meaningfully Able to understand architecture sufficiently to challenge scope, assess feasibility, and escalate meaningfully The most significant execution challenge in this role is aligning internal development capacity to externally committed PI planning windows. This gap requires active management and is a core part of the role, not a peripheral concern. Essential: Demonstrated ability to write clear, unambiguous functional specifications Strong systems literacy - able to understand architecture sufficiently to challenge scope, assess feasibility, and escalate meaningfully Proven ability to influence without authority: securing delivery commitment from development teams and managing partner expectations without direct line control Comfortable holding ground in a junior-partner relationship - structured, well-prepared, and credible under scrutiny Working understanding of data and analytics, with the ability to define and drive delivery of key system and product reporting Own QA sign-off on completed development work before handover to Product Operations for final acceptance testing. Define and maintain QA checklists and acceptance criteria aligned to functional specifications Prepare and present the technical delivery update for weekly OPCO and Manco, covering active workstreams, open incidents, deployment pipeline, and risk items. Maintain the issues and initiatives tracker, ensuring accurate status is reflected ahead of each governance cycle Coordinate technical incident resolution in partnership with the Tech Support team, taking ownership of the solutioning and resolution process once an incident has been logged and handed over by Product Operations Work within the established incident flow: Product Operations identifies and logs incidents, engages Tech Support, and the TPM leads resolution alongside the Tech Support team from handover Contribute to defect tracking and bug prioritisation in collaboration with the Tech Support team, ensuring open items are visible, sequenced, and progressing toward resolution Produce structured incident write-ups and post-mortems covering root cause, business impact, and corrective actions Develop and maintain runbooks for known recurring failure patterns to reduce resolution time on repeat incidents