AI Product Manager

Cloud23; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud23 is seeking a product manager for its agentic platforms. You will define the vision, shape the roadmap with engineering, design, and commercial input, and validate direction with enterprise customers using evidence over opinion.

You’ll define success metrics before build and report on them after delivery. You will translate between technical teams and business stakeholders to align priorities and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Product management experience on technical products, ideally data or AI.
• Sufficient technical depth to challenge engineering estimates constructively.
• Track record of shipping and stopping projects that aren’t working.
• Strong written communication; this role writes more than it presents.
• Enterprise or B2B experience is valued.

Responsibilities

• Own the problem definition: who has it, how badly, and what changes if we solve it.
• Shape roadmap and priorities across engineering, design and commercial input.
• Work closely with enterprise customers to validate direction with evidence, not opinion.
• Define success measures before build starts, and report against them afterwards.
• Translate between technical teams and business stakeholders without losing either.

Skills

Product management

Technical depth

Shipping mindset

Written communication

Enterprise/B2B experience

Job description

Define the product vision for Cloud23's agentic platforms, set priorities and hold the line between what is technically possible and what is commercially worth doing.

What you’ll do

• Own the problem definition: who has it, how badly, and what changes if we solve it.
• Shape roadmap and priorities across engineering, design and commercial input.
• Work closely with enterprise customers to validate direction with evidence, not opinion.
• Define success measures before build starts, and report against them afterwards.
• Translate between technical teams and business stakeholders without losing either.

What we’re looking for

• Product management experience on technical products, ideally data or AI.
• Enough technical depth to challenge an engineering estimate constructively.
• Track record of shipping and of stopping things that were not working.
• Strong written communication — this role writes more than it presents.
• Enterprise or B2B experience is valued.