Product Manager

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Overview

Role : Product Manager

Location : Johannesburg / Cape Town

Mode of Employment : Contract

About Zensar Technologies

We are a technology consulting and services company with 11,800+ associates in 33 global locations. More than 130 leading enterprises depend on our expertise to be more disruptive, agile, and competitive. Our success in South Africa for 24 years comes from our people-first focus that emphasizes empowerment from the ground up. Zensar is recognized as proudly South African in 2022 and is the Top Employer in 2024, 2023 and 2022 in South Africa by the Top Employer Institute. Zensar is a certified B-BBEE Level 2 contributor and partners with MICT, SETA, Education Africa, and Tomorrow Trust. We strongly believe in the power of communities and leveraging diversity to solve problems together.

Zensar is a place where you are free to express yourself in an environment that values individuality, nurtures development and is mindful of wellbeing. We put our people and customers at the center of everything that we do. Our core values include : putting people first. Grow. Own. Achieve. Learn. with Zensar.

Job Spec

Looking for an experienced, multi-skilled Senior Product Manager with exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills to join our fast-paced newsroom. As our Senior Product Manager, you will use your advanced product management expertise and data fluency to lead the development of innovative solutions and maintain our position at the forefront of the news landscape. This is a strategic, hands-on role responsible for bridging the gap between the newsroom and the wider team of engineers, data scientists, product managers and UX / UI specialists—delivering exceptional digital products for South Africa’s most trusted news brand. The position could be based at our Cape Town or Randburg offices.

What You’ll Do

• Act as the strategic lead for enhancing and optimising digital products, ensuring the highest standards in product quality and user experience.
• Develop and drive innovative concepts to enhance or create new digital publishing products, always improving the user experience.
• Act as a senior advisor and operational champion for editorial and product queries, workflow, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate closely with technical and editorial teams to specify and prioritise product requirements.
• Monitor industry trends, technologies, and emerging best practices to keep ahead of the curve.
• Support editorial teams with operational product queries, troubleshooting, and workflow improvements, taking a senior role in escalation and resolution.
• Manage the product lifecycle for both existing and emerging digital assets.
• Lead product rollouts, testing, training, and optimisation across the suite.

What You’ll Need

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Excellent judgement and analytical thinking

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