We are KingMakers, a customer-centric tech startup, dedicated to creating innovative products that entertain our customers and keep them engaged both online and through our agency operations.Since the successful launch of our first product, BetKing, in 2018, we have continued our momentum and will soon be introducing our newest offering, SuperSportBet, in South Africa.
In partnership with the Multichoice Group and SuperSport, SuperSportBet enhances the passion that sports fans have for the game with a world-class sports betting and casino experience.As our Kingdom expands, we proudly stand as the leading Sports and Digital Entertainment platform in Africa, and we are still actively hiring an exceptional team of Creators and Innovators across Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East.There has never been a better time to join our Kingdom than today!Role Overview:This role entails the leadership of the full iGaming product domain.
You will be responsible for decisions impacting the achievement of functional and business objectives and contributing to the operating plans for your functional area, aligned to business strategy.
Our Product Directors collaborate regularly with senior leadership and influence thinking and decision-making.
Your knowledge and experience will guide and empower your team to draw on their own experience to drive results through their own decision-making.
You will deliver results, resolve problems impacting iGaming and cross-dependency initiatives, and identify organizational risks, orchestrating necessary actions to remove obstacles to success.What You Will Be Doing:Lead the iGaming Product Organization: Supervise and mentor teams to build a world-class product practice in iGaming.Vision and Strategies: Create the vision and strategies for the growth of all iGaming products while considering financial implications, marketing needs, and overall business objectives.Strategy and Execution: Collaborate closely with Design, Engineering, User Research, and Data teams to shape a customer-focused iGaming product.Process Management: Create and manage a process driving toward a scalable product portfolio that will drive the business towards product-market fit.Stakeholder Buy-In: Secure stakeholder buy-in for the product vision and roadmap.Prioritization and Trade-Offs: Enable teams to manage prioritization and trade-offs between customer experience and business objectives.Product Specifications: Drive your teams to define and maintain creative, high-level, and detailed product roadmaps and specifications aligning with long-term business objectives.Market and Consumer Insights: Identify target consumer segments and markets, evaluate market trends, product industry, and competition strategies, and make recommendations on product pricing and positioning.Risk Management: Identify, assess, track, and resolve issues and risks at multiple levels, including technical risks and associated business risks.What You Need for This Role:Teamwork Communication:Demonstrated ability to set best practices for the product team.Proactively identify and solve problems impacting the product at KingMakers, regardless of the team.Expertly communicate complicated issues simply and coordinate communication to include the right people at the right time.Dedicate around half of your time to mentoring and helping others.Planning:Strong ability to define and effectively communicate quarterly roadmaps for your product domain.Promote strategic alignment and operational efficiency, ensuring the product team is connected to the product line vision.Vision Strategy:Experience in promoting strategic alignment and operational efficiency.Ability to connect your product line's vision with others, ensuring coherence and synergy across the organization.Business Market:Deep knowledge of your domain and adjacent ones to collaborate effectively on the short-term roadmap.Strong understanding of your domain's business and industry, including competitors, key trends in technology, customer behaviours, and expectations.Leadership Management:Proven ability to transform strategy into tactics, optimize operations, and prioritize effectively.Capability to take substantial features from concept to shipping across your domain, with minimal need for revision.Product Mastery:Skilled in providing training to the entire Product team on discovery techniques.How you do it – Expectations for fulfilling your role:Customer Focus: We keep the customer at the centre of everything we do.Passion Dedication: We are passionate about what we do, employing only smart, honest, dedicated, and results oriented team players.Openness, Honesty Directness: We embrace a culture of candour and work together towards the right solution whilst being open, honest, and willing to give and receive feedback, judgment-free.Innovation Big Thinking: We always look for ways to innovate whilst not losing sight of what's important.Ownership Accountability: We think like owners.
If we see a problem, we find a solution.Speed Focus: We plan, we strategize, but mostly, we DO.Low Ego: The best solutions are achieved when we leave our egos at the door.Fun: On balance, we believe in having fun whilst working.Beyond our great company benefits and competitive salaries, we recognize that to grow sustainably and thrive positively we need to engage the right talent because our people are a merit to our success.
We have an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and where everybody has a seat at the table.So, what are you waiting for?
Click apply and join our Kingdom today!
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