Technical Product Owner Hire Resolve

Insidentity; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A withholding tax recovery company in Johannesburg is seeking a dynamic Technical Product Owner. This role will involve defining the product vision, leading Scrum teams, and engaging with stakeholders to translate business requirements into a technical agenda. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, with strong leadership abilities and a solid understanding of product strategy. This position offers competitive compensation and a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated individual with a solid work ethic.
• Experience leading Scrum teams and nurturing an Agile culture.
• Ability to manage and prioritize product backlog effectively.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.
• Lead Scrum teams and manage sprint planning.
• Provide demos and training to stakeholders.

Skills

Agile leadership

Product vision and strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Technical specification

Delivery management

Tools

Jira

Job description

A world-leading withholding tax recovery company that assists institutional clients, including Banks, Mining Houses, andcommunication businesses, is seeking a dynamic, energetic, innovative, and strategic Technical Product Owner who is a self‑motivated individual with a solid work ethic who can work under deadline, collaborate with teams, and adhere to corporate policies.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Vision: Define the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.
• Align the roadmap with strategic goals by analysing internal and external stakeholder needs.
• Agile Leadership: Lead Scrum teams and nurture an Agile culture.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog (Jira), run daily standups, and manage sprint planning.
• Feature Ownership: Take the lead on developing detailed product feature specifications, ensuring clear understanding by development teams.
• Research new feature requirements, tech specifications, and manage the UX / UI process.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the product ambassador, providing demos and training.
• Engage with business leaders to translate business requirements into a technical agenda for development.
• Delivery Management: Manage internal and external development teams to ensure timely and quality delivery.
• Run design sessions and proofs of concept to determine the best technical solutions.
• Risk & Reporting: Actively mitigate roadblocks to successful sprint / release goals.
• Provide regular progress, risk, and bottleneck reporting to the steering committee.
• Quality Assurance: Design, develop, and implement test plans and participate in UAT testing.
• Provide high‑level support for deployed functionality.
• Innovation: Monitor emerging tools, technologies, and methods that could benefit the WTax business.

About Company

Hire Resolve is a specialist recruitment agency, founded in that places candidates in permanent and contract roles, primarily in South Africa.

It focuses on industries like engineering, finance, IT, mining, manufacturing, and supply chain.

The company emphasizes finding a workplace satisfaction for candidates by considering their qualifications, expectations, and preferred culture, and it also offers career support services.