Digital Product Lead — Strategy, Growth & Execution

1001 Absa Bank; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa is recruiting for a senior product leadership role responsible for strategy, performance and execution across a portfolio of digital channels. The position translates enterprise strategy into impactful product bets and drives delivery, adoption and measurable business value across diverse teams.

The role demands ownership mindset, cross-functional collaboration, and a focus on customer value, commercial impact and operational excellence to scale the digital channel ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Degree or Equivalent - Relevant Qualification
• Min 5 - 10 years experience in related filed
• Education Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, performance and execution of a portfolio of digital channels as a connected product ecosystem.
• Translate enterprise strategy into a small number of high-impact product bets and drive them from problem definition through delivery, adoption, optimisation and measurable business value.
• Lead Product Managers and create a high-performance product culture built on ownership, pace, evidence and outcomes.
• Make prioritisation decisions across customer value, commercial impact, technical feasibility, risk and speed-to-market.
• Drive execution across Product, Design, Engineering, Data, Marketing, Operations, Risk and Commercial teams without relying on hierarchy.
• Create an experimentation engine: launch, measure, learn and scale - reducing time between insight and customer impact.
• Own the channel operating rhythm, including weekly performance reviews, roadmap decisions, release priorities and outcome tracking.
• Remove organisational blockers and elevate only decisions that genuinely require executive intervention.
• Hold teams accountable for shipped outcomes, not activity, project completion or feature volume.
• Ensure the channel remains secure, resilient, compliant, accessible and operationally fit for scale.
• Continuously benchmark the product experience against category leaders and translate relevant external practices into differentiated product choices.

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

Job description

Absa is recruiting for a senior product leadership role responsible for strategy, performance and execution across a portfolio of digital channels. The position translates enterprise strategy into impactful product bets and drives delivery, adoption and measurable business value across diverse teams.

The role demands ownership mindset, cross-functional collaboration, and a focus on customer value, commercial impact and operational excellence to scale the digital channel ecosystem.