Senior Product Manager - Player Account Management (Pam) Igaming

Avatar International Sa; Remote; ZAR 1 528 000 - 2 548 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading executive search firm is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the Player Account Management (PAM) platform in the iGaming sector. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of product management experience, specifically in regulated environments. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, leading vendor negotiations, and ensuring compliance. The package includes negotiable salary and benefits such as Private Medical Insurance.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Group Life Insurance

Income Protection

Funeral Fund

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years in product management, ideally with iGaming PAM experience.
• Direct ownership of at least two greenfield or replatform deliveries.
• Proven commercial outcomes improving acceptance rates and reducing fraud loss.

Responsibilities

• Set the North Star for multi-market PAM and build business cases.
• Lead RFPs and negotiate with vendors.
• Write BRDs, user stories, and run backlog rituals.

Skills

Product management

Regulated product experience

KYC / AML knowledge

Financial technology understanding

Stakeholder management

Job description

Senior Product Manager - Player Account Management (PAM) Platform - iGaming

Executive Search via Avatar– Flexible Europe / UK base with travel.

What you will own

Set the North Star for a modular, multi-market PAM: fast onboarding, airtight compliance, resilient wallet / ledger, efficient payments, and extensibility for bonuses and CRM.

Shape the domain model and core capabilities at a product level: player identity, session / SSO, KYC / EDD workflows, wallet / ledger behaviours, limits, self-exclusion, cashier, withdrawals, dispute and chargeback handling, and auditability.

Slice work into vertical increments that prove the system end-to-end (e.g. register ? verify ? deposit ? play session ? withdraw) to surface risks early.

Commercials and ROI

Build business cases and budgets: PSP fees, KYC / AML costs, fraud loss assumptions, bonus liability, ops headcount, hosting / observability, and certification costs.

Track and improve unit economics: payment acceptance rate and cost per transaction, verification pass time / cost, chargeback rate, withdrawal SLA, bonus ROI, cost-to-serve per active player.

Build vs buy and vendor ecosystem

Lead RFPs and negotiate with KYC / AML vendors, PSPs / orchestrators, fraud tools, device fingerprinting, messaging / CRM, and reporting partners.

Regulatory, certification, and risk

Own the product requirements matrix per jurisdiction (e.g. UKGC, MGA, NJ DGE, ON AGCO).

Plan and execute lab certifications (e.g. GLI, eCOGRA, iTech Labs) in partnership with Engineering and Compliance.

Operational readiness

Specify the back-office console: case management for KYC / AML, payment approvals, limits / exclusions, bonus granting, refunds, manual adjustments with dual control and full audit logs.

Design reconciliation flows, dispute / chargeback handling, incident response, and support playbooks; align with Finance, Risk / Fraud, and CS.

Data, observability, and experimentation

Define the event taxonomy and data contracts for funnels, risk signals, and regulatory reporting.

Baseline KPIs; run pilots and A / Bs where appropriate without slowing certification or compliance.

Delivery leadership

Write BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria; run backlog rituals with engineering; accept features in environments that mimic production and meet NFRs (latency, reliability, observability, RTO / RPO).

Make trade-offs explicit and evidence-based.

Stakeholder management

Partner daily with Compliance / Legal, Payments / Finance, Risk / Fraud, Marketing / CRM, VIP, CS, and Data / BI.

Communicate clearly from the board to the squad; set OKRs, publish roadmaps, and create transparency on risks, costs, and timelines.

Experience we're looking for

7-10+ years in product management with a track record of taking complex, regulated, transactional products from concept to live.

iGaming PAM experience is ideal; high-scale fintech / payments / wallets also relevant.

Direct ownership of at least two greenfield or replatform deliveries in areas such as: KYC / AML flows and case tooling, payment orchestration and PSP integrations, wallet / ledger and reconciliation, responsible gaming controls, regulatory reporting and audits, bonus / promotion engines.

Proven commercial and operational outcomes: improved acceptance rates and fee mix, reduced verification time / cost, lower chargebacks / fraud loss, faster withdrawals without compliance breaches, increased retention / LTV, successful lab / regulatory certifications.

Hands-on operator: you draft BRDs and stories, join vendor calls, sit with Customer Support / Fraud to hear pain first-hand, validate hypotheses with data, run UAT yourself, and jump into incident triage with engineering when needed.

Fluent partnering with senior engineers on APIs, event-driven architectures, data models, and non-functional requirements.

Comfortable building under regulatory scrutiny and fixed certification windows; a no-surprises communicator with execs and cross-functional leaders.

How success will be measured

Business: registration-to-FTD conversion, payment acceptance %, withdrawal SLA, retention / LTV, bonus ROI, cost per transaction, fraud / chargeback rate.

Delivery: on-time achievement of certification milestones, defect escape rate, incident frequency / MTTR, scalability and latency targets under load.

Compliance / ops: audit findings resolved, reporting completeness / accuracy, reconciliation variances, Customer Support ticket rate per active player.

Package

Salary: Highly negotiable for the right candidate.

Benefits include: Private Medical Insurance

Provident Fund

Insured Benefits: Group Life / Income Protector / Funeral Fund / Capital Disability

Learning & Development, and more

For a confidential discussion please apply online and we will be in touch straight away.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Professional Services