What is the type of contract for this position?

The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Head of Product position?

The suggested salary for this position is $215,000 - $250,000*

Is telecommuting possible for this position?

No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Head of Product job at Ozow

Head of Product

Full-timeHead of Product$215,000 - $250,000*

Cape Town, South Africa

Home office stipend

Professional development opportunities

On-site amenities

Employee discount programs

Company-wide events and team-building activities

What to expect

Ozow is seeking an unconventional, visionary, and driven Head of Product. As a Head of Product, you will serve as a senior member of our management team and own the product roadmap, positioning, and go-to-market strategy for Ozow products and the evolution of product lines.

You will have a passion for helping customers of all shapes and sizes, from hot start-ups to established enterprises, and understand how our platform can help take their cloud adoption to the next level. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge, work across teams, and make a significant impact.

You will be a role model for boundary-less collaboration. You will work together with many internal and external stakeholders to translate market insight into features and roadmap, support product marketing to develop messaging and promotional content, drive product launches and adoption programs, and enable business development, solution architecture, sales and partners.

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

10+ years of relevant work experience in product management for B2B solutions plus at least 3 years in related fields such as product marketing, technical marketing, technical pre-sales, consulting, training.
4+ years of management experience.
A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a relevant field of study.
A career path that demonstrates increasing levels of management responsibility and a knack for driving and/or being associated with benchmark industry products/services.
Ability to easily transition from high level strategic thinking to creative and detailed execution.
Superior written and verbal communication skills.
You should also be a strong leader and negotiator who can drive consensus and articulate program recommendations and trade-offs to senior executives

Your roles and responsibilities:

Develop product and solution requirements, working backwards from the customer with primary focus on cross product experiences.
Manage our best-in-class team of product managers.
Identify target market segments, segment sizing and ideal B2B customer targets, and design forward-thinking positioning approaches for each segment.
Define solution value propositions for targeted categories, industries or workloads and be accountable for the overall go to market plan, including the revenue forecasts, adoption goals, packaging, pricing/licensing, and partner/ecosystem strategies.
Build core content and compelling assets to articulate buyer value, industry use cases, competitive differentiation, and benchmarking (customer case studies, videos, whitepapers, sales plays, presentations, how to guides, comparison tools, and more).
Execute and track experiments to build community and grow consumption of services, including innovative pricing/packaging approaches, special offers, promotions, and customer adoption programs.
Support marketing in building core content and website/promotional materials.
Monitor the results of product launches, marketing campaigns to reach target audiences effectively.
Establish customer and sales feedback loops to synthesize feedback and consolidate feature requests, providing category/industry/workload specific requirements to engineering and driving follow-up actions and communications.
Work effectively across Ozow with groups such as Commercial, Client Success, olutions Architects to achieve business goals.