Product Owner: Matchmaking & Post-Purchase Growth

Jobgether SRL; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

28 days vacation

Wellness days

Referral bonus up to $5,000

Training assistance 50%

English lessons discount

Health support up to $1,000

Remote equipment stipend

Gamified recognition program

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in South Africa is seeking a Product Owner (Matchmaking & Relationship) to own the post-purchase product experience.

You will drive activation, matching quality, relevance, and engagement from hypothesis to measurable results, collaborating with engineers, designers, analysts, and data scientists. You will shape discovery-driven features, design gamification and nudges, analyze bottlenecks, and push improvements that increase relevant invitations and faster first-week matches for

Qualifications

• Experience in B2C product management focusing on activation and onboarding.
• Experience with discovery-driven products and large catalogs.
• Understanding of search, relevance, and recommendation systems.
• Experience in marketplaces or discovery-focused products.
• Able to formulate hypotheses and measurable requirements.
• Experience delivering from concept to launch and iteration.
• Proficient in A/B testing and defining success metrics.
• Mix of qualitative and quantitative research.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong product metrics focus and ownership.
• Comfort with changing priorities and direct communication.
• Learn from unsuccessful experiments.

Responsibilities

• Own post-purchase customer journey and drive fast quality match.
• Optimize offer volume and relevance without overwhelming users.
• Improve recommendation relevance and customer trust.
• Increase relevant invitations from paying customers.
• Improve first-week match quality for new customers.
• Design engagement features like gamification and nudges.
• Use segmentation and personalization to improve discovery.
• Identify bottlenecks with data, research, insights.
• Translate opportunities into testable hypotheses with metrics.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, analysts, and data/ML teams.
• Manage requirements, priorities, timelines for predictable delivery.
• Run A/B tests and scale meaningful improvements.

Skills

B2C PM

Activation

Onboarding

Customer journey

Discovery-driven

Matching systems

Personalization

Data enrichment

A/B testing

Cross-functional

Metrics-driven

Ownership

Communication

Job description

Lever, Inc. in South Africa is seeking a Product Owner (Matchmaking & Relationship) to own the post-purchase product experience.

You will drive activation, matching quality, relevance, and engagement from hypothesis to measurable results, collaborating with engineers, designers, analysts, and data scientists. You will shape discovery-driven features, design gamification and nudges, analyze bottlenecks, and push improvements that increase relevant invitations and faster first-week matches for