Step into the wild world of OneDayOnly – South Africa's OG daily deals hub. We're the pioneers of cool discounts, hitting you for just one day because, well, why overcomplicate things? We've got the big names, top suppliers, and a dash of our secret sauce to make you feel like a BIG DEAL. Not to brag, but we have over a million potential savvy shoppers getting our daily dose every 24 hours.
We're not fussy – if the price is right and the quality checks out, we're selling it. That's what makes us the go-to for both the smart buyer and the eager seller. Toss in the urgency of our deals, and boom, success happens quicker than you can blink. So, jump in, where FOMO meets killer deals, and let's turn every day into a retail party!
About YouAs a Product Owner at OneDayOnly, you will work directly with one of our development teams and collaborate closely with the Product Manager, UX, UI designers and Stakeholders to ensure clarity, prioritisation, and delivery of high-impact work.
This is a hands-on role where you will bridge business requirements with technical delivery, owning the team backlog and ensuring the team’s work is aligned to the broader roadmap. Our POs need to be strong in both facilitation and detail, ensuring the team is well-supported to deliver consistently.
ResponsibilitiesBacklog 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.
- 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.
- 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).
Top Skills
What We Do
OneDayOnly is South Africa's original daily deals website. We were founded back in 2010 by Chris Oberhofer and Maurits Vermeulen, two friends who came up with an idea to do something that had not yet been done in the country: build a website where customers could get their hands on incredible brands at unbeatable discounts for a limited time. Since then, we've grown to become a force to be reckoned with in the landscape of e-commerce, set apart from the rest by our fun tone of voice and sense of humour - and, of course, our big deals.
We partner with top brands and key suppliers to be able to offer products to over a million potential customers, through various channels including our daily mailer, social media accounts, email campaigns and, most recently, our mobile app - perfect for bagging big deals on the move!
Of course, our website and app don't run themselves: we employ over 300 human beings to sell things, buy things, process things, repair things and work on our website and app. Not to mention pack things and deliver things.
Why work for us? You'll have the unique opportunity to help a rapidly growing business get to the next level using cutting-edge technology like computers, printers, internet and electricity (even during loadshedding, woah!) But seriously, folks, you'll have the opportunity to mix and mingle with some incredibly talented people, all of whom are dedicated to driving our business forward in ways we might not have ever imagined.
Our culture: We're dedicated and hard-working without falling into the trap of becoming too corporate - or boring. That said, we pride ourselves on four key principles here: growth, innovation, value and authenticity - not just amongst the individuals who work here, but as a collective - and for our customers. We foster an energetic and authentic business mentality, ensuring that if we get the basics right and have fun along the way, everything else - including sales and customers - will fall into place.
