Product Owner Job at OneDayOnly

Responsibilities

Backlog Ownership & Team Delivery

• Own, refine, and prioritise the team backlog, ensuring clarity of requirements and alignment with company objectives.
• Translate business needs into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives with the dev team.
• Ensure dependencies, blockers, and risks are visible and escalated appropriately.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with the Business and Product Manager to scope projects, understand priorities, and represent the team in cross-team initiatives.
• Act as the go-to liaison between business stakeholders, UX/UI design, and the dev team.
• Ensure developers are involved early enough in discovery and scoping to reduce rework.
• Drive clear documentation and ensure all project details are captured and accessible.

Delivery & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor team progress and support accountability for delivery commitments.
• Anticipate and resolve issues where possible, escalating when necessary.
• Collect feedback from users, business, and developers to continuously improve product quality and processes.
• Help establish structure around requirements gathering, checklists, and “stop points” for identifying risks early.

Product Vision Support

• Work with the Product Manager to align the team’s work with the longer-term product roadmap.
• Contribute insights into opportunities, pain points, and technical improvements.
• Ensure the team’s work ties into broader e-commerce goals and customer experience improvements.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree (Honours preferred).
• Minimum 3–4 years in an agile Product Owner role (e-commerce experience advantageous).
• Strong experience with backlog management, requirement gathering, and cross functional communication.
• Proven ability to balance detail with delivery in fast-paced environments.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and product development lifecycle.
• Exceptional organisational skills; able to manage competing priorities and dependencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between business and technical teams.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable operating without dedicated Scrum Master or analyst support.
• Problem-solving mindset with strong business acumen and ability to spot opportunities for improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to support successful delivery of large, multi-stakeholder projects.

Why Join Us

• Play a pivotal role in shaping South Africa’s leading daily deals e-commerce platform.
• Work closely with a Product Manager and cross-functional teams on impactful, customer-facing projects.
• Be part of a lean, fast-moving environment where your input directly improves delivery.
• Opportunity for career growth as our product organisation evolves (e.g., future specialisation into Senior PO, PM, or cross-functional leadership roles).

Values

• Challenge Accepted: We actively seek ownership, embrace complexity, and hold ourselves accountable for delivering high-quality, reliable code.
• Solve Smart: We find the simplest, most effective path to a solution. We use data to inform our decisions, challenge assumptions, and build for the long-term.
• Character Counts: We act with integrity in all that we do. We communicate with transparency, give and receive feedback constructively, and take accountability for our mistakes and our successes.
• Customer Obsessed: We build with empathy for our users. We strive to understand their needs and challenges, making them the central focus of every feature we ship and every line of code we write.
• Seriously Unserious: We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We bring energy and humor to our collaborations, celebrate our successes together, and support each other through challenges.