Betway Global

Head of Platform

Betway Global  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Kick-start your career in the online gaming world and experience the very latest in technology and innovation.

What you’ll do

You’ll take ownership of work that gives us our competitive edge, including:

  • Own the core product platform portfolio, ensuring alignment across front-end and back-end systems
  • Define and drive platform strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term capabilities
  • Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of product managers, analysts, and specialists
  • Enable fast and reliable product development across the organisation
  • Ensure the platform supports current and future product requirements across brands and markets
  • Drive consistency in APIs, data contracts, and shared services
  • Partner closely with Engineering and Product Operations to deliver cohesive solutions
  • Clearly communicate platform trade-offs, priorities, and dependencies to senior stakeholders
  • Ensure platform initiatives are well-defined, scoped, and prioritised before delivery
  • Hold teams accountable for delivering high-quality platform outcomes
  • Operationalise governance around platform ownership, integration standards, documentation, and lifecycle management
  • Ensure platform decisions consider operational risk, scalability, and long-term sustainability
  • Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, driving continuous platform improvement
  • Leverage analytics and performance insights to assess platform health
  • Ensure platform considerations are embedded into broader product strategy and planning
  • Build scalable team structures aligned to growth and complexity
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and data-driven decision-making
  • Translate company strategy into platform KPIs and measurable outcomes
  • Drive innovation by identifying and enabling new capabilities, technologies, and platform improvements that support product growth and scalability
  • Partner with relevant business stakeholders to shape and prioritise new feature development, ensuring world class customer experiences

This list covers your core responsibilities – with plenty of room to stretch, explore and take on new challenges as we grow.

What you’ll bring

You’re someone who brings:

  • Strong experience in product management, preferably within betting, gaming, or regulated environments
  • Extensive experience leading platform or systems-driven product teams
  • Strong understanding of complex back-end systems and front-end architectures
  • Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to align platform strategy with broader business objectives
  • Excellent planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills
  • Ability to manage multiple initiatives in high-pressure environments
  • Strong commercial judgement and ability to balance technical and business priorities
  • Experience with delivery methodologies and product frameworks
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making capability
  • Proactive, structured, and outcome-driven mindset


Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve

It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:

  • Experience scaling platform capabilities in high-growth environments
  • Strong understanding of API ecosystems, integrations, and data architecture
  • Experience working within regulatory or compliance-driven systems
  • Familiarity with platform analytics and performance tools
  • Experience with agile product operating models at scale


*Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.

*Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.

This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details - therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.


Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.

The perfect place to work, play and grow!

Betway Global

About Betway Global

Founded in 2006, Betway Group is a proud member of Super Group, who are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker: SGHC).

We are a leading provider of innovative and exciting entertainment across sports betting, casino and esports betting.

By developing and utilising the very latest technologies, we have remained at the forefront of the online gaming industry, providing innovative and interactive gaming experiences in a fair, safe and responsible environment. 

Driven by our shared vision to become the global leader in the online sports betting and casino industry, our people are forward-thinking, team-players who thrive on a collective diversity of skills and backgrounds.

We provide our teams with the tools to create market-leading, cutting-edge interactive gaming experiences, from pre-game and live sports betting, to esports and casino. 

We bring our people closer to the action – putting them at the heart, making them feel part of it. 

We live and breathe our values – these values define how we conduct ourselves in everything we do  shaping how we interact with each other, our customers and our business partners. 

If you can imagine yourself in an environment which thrives off collaboration, and where everything is possible, then Betway could be the place for you.

So, why not check out our vacancies. 

Industry
Arts & Entertainment
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Gzira, MT
Year Founded
Unknown
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