Company: Media24 (Pty) Ltd
Industry: Media / Radio / TV
Posted: Sep 7, 2025
Deadline: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelors, Higher National Certificate, National Certificate
Experience: 7 years
Location: Western Cape
City: Cape Town
Field: Product Management
What You’ll Do
- Act as the strategic lead for enhancing and optimising News24’s 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 News24 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 News24 digital assets.
- Lead product rollouts, testing, training, and optimisation across the News24 suite.
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in a relevant field.
- A minimum of 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years in a digital/mobile environment, and a proven track record in a senior or leadership capacity.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and presentation skills; the confidence to engage and influence at all levels.
- Passion for developing and delivering outstanding user experiences.
- Highly data-driven and analytically minded, with the proven ability to inform decision-making through research and insight.
- Consistent track record of successful product launches and driving significant business value.
- Expertise in managing diverse workloads and strategic prioritisation.
- Significant experience with agile and lean product development methodologies.
- Thorough knowledge of prevailing and emerging digital and mobile trends and technologies.
