📌 OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEWLesaka Technologies is actively recruiting for a Senior Product Manager: Market & Innovation position in Western Cape. This is an excellent opportunity for professionals in the Data / Business / Analysis / Ai sector looking to advance their careers.
🎯 IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILEWe are seeking talented individuals with the following profile• Experience Level: 5 years • Educational Background: Others or equivalent • Industry Focus: Data / Business / Analysis / Ai • Location Preference: in Western Cape
💼 WHY THIS ROLE MATTERSThe Senior Product Manager: Market & Innovation position is an important role within the Data / Business / Analysis / Ai sector, offering meaningful career development and professional growth opportunities.
📈 CAREER DEVELOPMENT INSIGHTSThis role in Data / Business / Analysis / Ai offers valuable career progression opportunities aligned with your experience level and professional aspirations.
📋 APPLICATION GUIDANCEWhen applying for this Senior Product Manager: Market & Innovation position, ensure your CV highlights: • Relevant experience matching the 5 years requirement • Educational qualifications in line with Others • Specific achievements in the Data / Business / Analysis / Ai field • Any certifications or specialized training
🌍 SOUTH AFRICA JOB MARKET CONTEXTThe Data / Business / Analysis / Ai sector in South Africa continues to show strong demand for skilled professionals. This position represents a valuable opportunity in the current job market.
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The role
This role decides what’s worth building. You own the intelligence and opportunity pipeline across our entire product portfolio; vouchers, virtual products, bill payments and utilities, turning market signal, competitor moves and customer demand into a prioritised stream of validated ideas. Your role is to bring substantiated opportunity; you define the product; engineering builds it.
What you’ll own
Maintain a live view of the competitive landscape- categories, fees, UX, partner coverage and flag gaps and threats before they hurt us. Run the innovation pipeline: new voucher categories, bundles and novel selling constructs, framed as testable hypotheses rather than pet projects. Gather signal from partners, sales, market trends and customers and filter it ruthlessly into a ranked, defensible opportunity list. Identify cross-vertical levers, such as using vouchers to drive adoption of other products, and size the upside. Write clear problem statements and opportunity cases; hand engineering the what and why, not a spec. Partner with Commercial on price and revenue cases, and measure adoption and validation post-launch.
What you bring
5+ years in product management, ideally in fintech, payments, retail or telco/VAS. A track record of taking new products from market insight to launch. Strong competitor analysis and market research instincts, you teardown rivals as a habit, not a once-a-year deck. The judgement to filter noise from real patterns and say no to fads. Fluency working with commercial, engineering and partner stakeholders. Comfort owning outcomes (adoption, validation) without owning the day-to-day build.
Nice to have
Experience with voucher, gift-card or VAS ecosystems. Exposure to partner and merchant integration models.
Closing Date 10 October 2026
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