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Senior Product Manager: Market & Innovation

Lesaka Technologies

Western Cape Mid-Senior Posted 25 Aug 2026 Closes in 46 days

Overview

Senior Product Manager: Market & Innovation role involves owning the intelligence and opportunity pipeline across the product portfolio, turning market signals, competitor moves, and customer demand into a prioritized stream of validated ideas.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Fluency working with commercial, engineering and partner stakeholders.
  • Comfort owning outcomes (adoption, validation) without owning the day-to-day build.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a live view of the competitive landscape.
  • Run the innovation pipeline: new voucher categories, bundles and novel selling constructs.
  • Gather signal from partners, sales, market trends and customers into a ranked opportunity list.
  • Identify cross-vertical levers and size the upside.
  • Write clear problem statements and opportunity cases.
  • Partner with Commercial on price and revenue cases, and measure adoption and validation post-launch.

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