171 Technical Product jobs in South Africa

About the Role

We're looking for a Technical Product Manager to lead AI implementation projects across our diverse client portfolio. You'll be the bridge between cutting-edge AI technology and real-world business applications, working directly with clients to design, develop, and deploy AI products and intelligent agents that solve meaningful problems.

What You'll Do

Working across multiple client engagements, you'll own the end-to-end product lifecycle for AI implementations. You'll translate client needs into technical requirements, coordinate with engineering teams to build solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption. You'll manage the development of AI-powered products and autonomous agents, balancing technical feasibility with business impact. Expect to spend significant time with clients understanding their challenges, presenting solutions, and guiding them through the implementation journey. You'll also be responsible for scoping projects, defining success metrics, and ensuring delivery meets both timeline and quality standards.

What We're Looking For

• 3-5 years of product management experience with at least 1-2 years working on AI/ML products
• Experience building your own products using AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor Agents or Codex.
• Technical fluency to discuss machine learning models, LLMs, and agent architectures with engineering teams
• Proven track record managing products through full development cycles from concept to launch
• Direct client-facing or stakeholder management experience
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value and vice versa
• Strong project management skills with experience juggling multiple concurrent projects
• Working hours will be EST (GMT-5)

Ideal Background

Experience building or implementing AI agents, chatbots, or automation tools is a major plus. Prior consulting or client-facing product work gives you an advantage. Familiarity with modern AI development tools and frameworks, prompt engineering, or RAG systems would be valuable. We'd love to see examples of AI products you've shipped or implementations you've led.

Lead Technical Innovation for Multi-Platform Fintech Company

Wykco operates cutting-edge AI-powered investment platforms serving institutional investors and alternative asset managers globally. We're seeking a Technical Product Manager to take ownership of our complete technology stack, drive AI model development, and build scalable solutions across multiple investment platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Multi-Platform Technical Ownership: Take complete ownership of existing investment platforms and technology stack, optimizing performance and user experience across diverse business applications
• AI Model Development & Customization: Build, train, and customize AI models for investment analysis, risk assessment, and automated decision-making processes
• Platform Architecture & Scaling: Design and implement scalable architecture supporting rapid user growth and complex financial workflows across multiple platforms simultaneously
• Team Building & Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and lead engineering team as platforms scale, establishing technical culture and development processes
• Product Strategy & Innovation: Collaborate with business teams to transform complex investment processes into intuitive user experiences and competitive technical advantages
• Security & Compliance: Implement enterprise-grade security frameworks meeting financial services regulatory requirements across all platforms
• Performance Optimization: Ensure platform reliability, speed, and scalability while managing technical debt and system improvements
• Integration & Automation: Build seamless integrations with third-party services, APIs, and financial infrastructure to enhance platform capabilities

What Makes This Role Unique:

• AI-First Development: Work with cutting-edge AI/ML technologies in financial services applications
• Multi-Platform Mastery: Gain expertise across diverse fintech applications and investment strategies
• Technical Leadership: Build and lead engineering team from early-stage startup to scaled operation
• Strategic Impact: Direct influence on product roadmap and competitive advantage through technology
• Innovation Freedom: Architect solutions from optimization through scaling with significant technical autonomy

Essential Requirements:

• 5+ years full-stack development experience with platform ownership and technical leadership responsibilities
• AI/ML expertise including model development, training, deployment, and customization for business applications
• Multi-platform development experience managing diverse applications and technology stacks simultaneously
• Team leadership experience with proven ability to recruit, mentor, and scale engineering teams
• Financial technology or enterprise software experience with security, compliance, and scalability requirements
• Modern technology stack proficiency in cloud platforms, APIs, databases, and development frameworks
• Product-focused engineering approach balancing user needs, business requirements, and technical excellence
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fintech or financial services platform development experience
• No-code/low-code platform experience and optimization capabilities
• Machine learning in finance applications (risk assessment, portfolio optimization, trading algorithms)
• Startup scaling experience from early stage through significant growth phases
• Open source contributions or technical thought leadership in relevant technologies
• Advanced degrees in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related technical fields
• Professional certifications in cloud platforms, AI/ML, or relevant technologies

Personal Characteristics:

• Technical excellence with commitment to code quality, security, and scalable architecture
• Strategic thinking ability to balance innovation with reliability and business impact
• Leadership potential with enthusiasm for building and mentoring high-performing technical teams
• Problem-solving focus with ability to tackle complex technical challenges independently
• Startup adaptability comfortable with ambiguity, rapid change, and autonomous decision-making
• User-centric approach with focus on creating exceptional experiences for sophisticated financial professionals

Please note that M3 is hiring on behalf of another company.

Philagro SA, a leading supplier of quality agricultural products,
has the above opportunity available for a Technical Product Manager, focused on pome and stone fruit to join their technical team. The ability to build relationships based on trust and technical expertise is essential to the role.

The successful candidate will report to the Commercial and Marketing Manager (South), working across the Western Cape (EGVV and Piketberg) and Eastern Cape (Langkloof).

Duties will be focused on plant growth regulators, and will include (but not be limited to): *Technical support at grower and agent level *Product training of distributing agents *Sales of products relevant to pome/stone fruit industry *Management of budgets *Product stewardship *Ongoing research and development *All other tasks related to the role.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience:

• Relevant BSc qualification (MSc preferred);

• 3-5 years' experience in a similar role, specifically with pome or stone fruit;

• A background with plant physiology will be beneficial;

• Fully bilingual (Afrikaans & English);

• Willingness to travel.

Please apply online at before 09:00 on 17 October 2025.

For general enquiries, contact our team at M3 Human Capital Management on

Please note that only shortlisted candidates are contacted. If you don't hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application was unsuccessful.

*Job Classification *
TPO

Closing date : 14 October

Job Family
Information Technology

Career Stream
It Application Development

Leadership Pipeline
Manage Managers

Job Purpose
To ensure that the applicable application grouping relating to an asset is receiving the necessary investment from an architectural runway & health perspective, aligned to our enterprise aspirations (including pan-African,Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities), ensuring economic value is derived from this asset grouping and ensuring sustainable IT operations. To ensure the alignment of the Business and Nedbank IT Strategy and to manage sustainable business cluster partner relationships whilst ensuring the optimal value is realised from asset capabilities, driving enterprise priority and delivery teams work, to ensure innovation execution in alignment to strategy. To facilitate the determination of the long-term strategic technology needs (Innovation and Support) of the relevant asset (which includes security and infrastructure capabilities).

*Job Responsibilities *

• Lead the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC - accountable for the final decision making on all assetrelated matters, including, agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions alignedto enterprise aspirations (including pan-African, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities)
• Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a competitive advantage by translating theNedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy
• Define, maintain, and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, assetand business needs
• Assist in realising the commercial goals of the organisation
• Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the cluster and Nedbank'svision and values
• Build a sustainable high-performance team by developing modernised skill sets
• Ensure the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function
• Build a culture of excellence/continuous improvement
• Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff and building a proper talent pipeline
• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI
• Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements through establishing and managingappropriate risk practices
• Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM's/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACS
• Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on allmatters relating to IT Risk, specifically with respect to the centralisation of IT systems
• Plan, execute, monitor and control activities over an Enterprise Disaster Recovery environment for thespecific assets assigned to the POCLAC
• Accountable for the compliance and data integrity and lineage of the applicable assets
• Develop and implement a strategy to build a differentiated culture by analysing relevant surveys andinformation
• Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensurecorrective action plans are developed and implemented
• Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation incollaboration with the relevant chapters
• Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, meeting all jointly agreed POCLAC budget commitments
• Leverage opportunities to create a competitive and commercially successful function
• Accountable for the optimising the TCO of the assets
• Accountable for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing creating technical capabilities that match Journey business capability demand, SME/FCI demand, and keeping the assets healthy and competitive
• Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through end-to-end Financial Management of the asset value chain
• Accountable for the overall health of the asset, which includes Upgrades, Technical Debt monitoring, andplanned removal, ITSM practices, Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; HighAvailability & DR; Data enabled; Componentised; Cloud enabled (where fit); & equipped for all multi-scenario usage
• Ensure asset innovation execution of the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio innovation relating to the implementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organisational methodology and strategy
• Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees

Essential Certifications

• Formal accreditation in professional field where applicable

Minimum Experience Level
Total number of years of experience:11 years +

Management experience as part of the above years:6-7 Years

Type of experience:11 Years + Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to alarge corporate organisation.

Experience in a large IT Transformation Initiative

Experience in commercial context knowledge important.

*Technical / Professional Knowledge *

• Budgeting
• Business administration and management
• Business principles
• Business terms and definitions
• Capacity planning
• Change management
• Client service management
• Communication Strategies
• Diversity management
• Employee training/development
• Financial Accounting Principles
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Organisational behaviour theory
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic planning
• Talent management
• Business writing skills
• Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• Role relevant related technologies
• ITIL
• IT Concepts
• Business Process
• Products and Services

Behavioural Competencies

• Building Partnerships
• Facilitating Change
• Inspiring others
• Business Acumen
• Driving for Results
• Selecting Talent
• Delegation and Empowerment

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team

Byte Orbit is an innovative product development company and execution partner. We build and launch awesome software products for a variety of clients in the retail and fintech space. If you're looking for a company that treats you like a human, values your expertise and encourages growth - you've come to the right place We're committed to providing a fun environment where you will have purpose and look forward to days of innovation and the chance to expand your skill set.

Please note that we use third-party systems to facilitate the process.

01.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

Technical Product Owners are an integral part of the Byte Orbit offering. They are responsible for the delivery of high-quality products, assisting clients with requirements analysis, project management and support. The Technical Product Owner represents the business interests, and translates business and product requirements into technical requirements that solve business and user problems. We look for humans who can navigate complex landscapes and work with developers and designers to discover, design and deliver solutions.

02.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

As a Technical Product Owner, you will be responsible for learning the ins and outs of discovering, designing and delivering elegant digital products, including:

• Participating in product discovery (UX research, user testing, opportunity mapping)
• Gathering, illustrating and scoping feature requirements
• Documenting products and requirements
• Defining metrics, and analysing the performance of products and their features
• Participating in the software development process (at Byte Orbit we use Scrum primarily)

03.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLSET:

As this is an Mid-level role, we place emphasis on the Individual Competencies, Aptitude and Attitude rather than qualifications and experience (as indicated under the Individual Competencies section at the end of this document)

Advantageous requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of working experience in a Product Owner team environment, or in a related role such as Business Analyst, QA, Scrum Master or Developer.
• Relevant courses taken e.g. CSPO certification, Product Management courses, Business Analysis courses, Project Management courses
• Tertiary Qualification

04.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Assist in documenting product requirements

• Assist with eliciting requirements from project stakeholders
• Understand and illustrate requirements by means of producing relevant artefacts, including context diagrams, process flows, data flows, C4 diagrams and other relevant artefacts
• Document and explain impact of requirements on the high level architecture of systems
• Analyse software documentation (e.g. API documentation)
• Understand and communicate a software systems technical stack at a high level
• Clearly define project context deliverables and outcomes
• Write comprehensive user stories and acceptance criteria

Assist in managing development projects

• Work with technical product owners, developers and Scrum Master to guide production of time estimates for project work
• Plan iterations with Scrum Master
• Create and maintain product backlog
• Run iteration planning and retrospective meetings with Scrum Master
• Plan and schedule resources with Scrum Master
• Manage iterations
• Ensure that development work runs smoothly
• Coordinate development iterations across all project teams
• Manage quality output

Assist in managing of internal relationships and clients

• Run professional meetings with product stakeholders, where required
• Build trusting relationships with clients and internal team
• Assist in managing client expectations

Assist in Manage product lifecycle

• Work with product team in the ongoing enhancement and improvement of the product
• Suggest product enhancements and improvements
• Assist with the handling of operation and product support requirements where necessary

05.

INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCIES:

• Collaborative team player
• Ability to manage behavioural impact
• Critical thinker and natural problem solver
• Organised and able to work under pressure
• Flexibility towards consistent change
• Technical and business acumen
• Curiosity

Flexible Working Opportunities

Unlimited Growth Opportunities

Access To Online Learning

Employee Assistance Programme

Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced
Senior Technical Product Manager
to take ownership of our JabuPay ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities
Product Development & Finalization:

• Update and maintain the product roadmap.

• JabuSafe

• JabuPay
• JabuTap
• VAS
• And more.

Technical Coordination

• Manage access and use to product tools and platforms (Lucidcharts, Figma, Jira, Notion, Sentry, Mixpanel).
• Oversee automation scripts for transaction monitoring.
• Ensure all product documentation and assets are properly organized and accessible.
• Act as the point of contact for QA processes, error checking, and feedback.
• Meet with customers regularly to define product necessities and roadmap.
• Identify opportunities for process automation and optimization.
• Maintain and improve scripts for transaction checks (e.g., duplicates, high-value transactions).

Team Leadership

• Coordinate daily stand-ups and weekly sprints with development teams.
• Manage Jira boards and ticketing systems.
• Manage team performance and monthly metrics.
• Facilitate effective communication between developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders.
• Assist in hiring and onboarding new team members, including product designers.
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success.
• Use analytics tools to track user engagement, adoption rates, and other relevant metrics.
• Report on product performance to senior management.

Stakeholder Communication

• Manage communication with external partners and vendors (e.g.,NFS, Banks and other wallets)
• Bridge technical communication between internal teams and external partners.
• Prepare and distribute release notes and updates.

Technical Product Manager (Fintech/Payments)

Our client is a high-growth fintech company building the next generation of payment infrastructure across Africa. Their mission is to make money movement seamless, inclusive, and scalable across borders. They operate at the intersection of financial innovation and real-world impact, empowering businesses and consumers with tools to thrive in a rapidly digitizing economy.

Role Overview

Our client is looking for a dynamic Product Manager to lead the design, development, and delivery of payment products that serve businesses and consumers across African markets. You'll act as the bridge between local business teams and our engineering team in Hong Kong, ensuring alignment between user needs and technical execution.

Job Type:
Full-time

Location:
Cape Town

Workplace:
Hybrid

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in fintech, payments, or digital infrastructure
• Proven experience working with remote engineering teams (bonus if across time zones)
• Strong understanding of the African payments landscape and user behavior in emerging markets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Mandarin is considered a plus
• Proficient in agile methodology, product lifecycle management, and rapid iteration
• Technical literacy — able to engage meaningfully with developers and understand architecture-level trade-offs
• Comfortable using Jira, Confluence, Figma, Postman, and reading API documentation
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong bias for action and ownership
• Technical background (such as a degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent) or experience on the technical side of product

Responsibilities

Product Development & Delivery

• Translate business requirements into clear, structured product documentation (BRDs, PRDs, user stories, wireframes) for the development team.
• Manage and prioritize the product roadmap, balancing quick wins with long-term scalability.
• Coordinate daily workflows, standups, and sprint planning with developers in Hong Kong (timezone flexibility required).
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of new features, integrations, and improvements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work with internal teams (Compliance, Operations, Growth, Risk) to define product requirements and market fit.
• Act as a cross-cultural translator, helping engineering teams understand regional context and helping business teams grasp technical constraints.
• Conduct user testing, gather feedback, and iterate based on usage in African markets.

Data & Strategy

• Monitor KPIs and usage analytics to assess product performance and guide decision-making.
• Maintain deep awareness of regulatory trends, customer pain points, and competitive benchmarks across African markets.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or related field (mandatory)
• Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc in FinTech, Risk, or Data Science) – advantageous.
• Professional Certifications (preferred/required):
• Credit Risk/Banking: CFA, FRM (Financial Risk Manager), or equivalent.
• Product Management: Agile Product Owner (PSPO, SAFe POPM).
• Data/Decisioning: Machine Learning or Data Analytics certifications (advantageous).
• Cloud/Platform certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP – relevant to credit platforms).

Relevant Experience

• 10–12 years' experience in product management or credit technology, with at least 5+ years in senior product ownership.
• Proven track record in delivering credit/lending platforms, including origination, decisioning, and loan servicing.
• Strong knowledge of credit risk management, lending workflows, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with decisioning engines (e.g., FICO, Experian, Provenir), credit bureau integrations, and APIs.
• Exposure to digital lending models, embedded credit, BNPL, and alternative credit scoring.
• Prior experience in regulated industries (banking, fintech, financial services) preferred.

*Job Classification *
Technical Product Owner: Interoperability Layer

Closing Date: 23 September 2025

Job Family
Information Technology

Career Stream
IT Operations

Leadership Pipeline
Manage Managers (MM)

Job Purpose
To ensure that the applicable application grouping relating to an asset is receiving the necessary investment from an architectural runway & health perspective, aligned to our enterprise aspirations (including pan-African, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities), ensuring economic value is derived from this asset grouping and ensuring sustainable IT operations.

To ensure the alignment of the Business and Nedbank IT Strategy and to manage sustainable business cluster partner relationships whilst ensuring the optimal value is realised from asset capabilities, driving enterprise priority and delivery teams work, to ensure innovation execution in alignment to strategy.

To facilitate the determination of the long-term strategic technology needs (Innovation and Support) of the relevant asset (which includes security and infrastructure capabilities).

*Job Responsibilities *

• Lead the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC - accountable for the final decision making on all asset related matters, including, agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions aligned to enterprise aspirations (including pan-African, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities)
• Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a competitive advantage by translating the Nedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy
• Define, maintain, and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, asset and business needs
• Assist in realising the commercial goals of the organisation
• Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the cluster and Nedbank's vision and values
• Build a sustainable high-performance team by developing modernised skill sets
• Ensure the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function
• Build a culture of excellence/continuous improvement
• Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff and building a proper talent pipeline
• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI
• Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements through establishing and managing appropriate risk practices
• Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM's/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACS
• Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on all matters relating to IT Risk, specifically with respect to the centralisation of IT systems
• Plan, execute, monitor and control activities over an Enterprise Disaster Recovery environment for the specific assets assigned to the POCLAC
• Accountable for the compliance and data integrity and lineage of the applicable assets
• Develop and implement a strategy to build a differentiated culture by analysing relevant surveys and information
• Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensure corrective action plans are developed and implemented
• Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation in collaboration with the relevant chapters
• Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, meeting all jointly agreed POCLAC budget commitments
• Leverage opportunities to create a competitive and commercially successful function
• Accountable for the optimising the TCO of the assets
• Accountable for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing creating technical capabilities that match Journey business capability demand, SME/FCI demand, and keeping the assets healthy and competitive
• Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through end-to-end Financial Management of the asset value chain Accountable for the overall health of the asset, which includes Upgrades, Technical Debt monitoring, and planned removal, ITSM practices, Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; High Availability & DR; Data enabled; Componentised; Cloud enabled (where fit); & equipped for all multi-scenario usage
• Ensure asset innovation execution of the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio innovation relating to the implementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organisational methodology and strategy
• Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees

Preferred Certifications
Preferred - TOGAF, Leading SAFe, Project Management (PMBok/PMI, Prince II etc)

Minimum Experience Level
Total number of years of experience:11 years +

Management experience as part of the above years:6-7 Years

Type of experience:Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organisation

*Technical / Professional Knowledge *

• Technical skills
• Product management
• Project Management
• Financial management
• Strategy planning and execution
• Vendor Management Skills
• Stakeholder management
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Relevant regulatory knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Delegation and Empowerment
• Execution
• Decision Making
• Building Talent
• Customer Focus
• Guiding Team Success
• Leadership Determination
• Driving Innovation

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team