Kobus Meiring

Experience

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  UCT Green Campus Initiative

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2019

  Treasurer
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  ISondlo

  Jan 2019 - Feb 2020

  Treasurer
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  LegalMate Technologies

  Jun 2019 - Apr 2020

  Head of Content

  I started as a legal content creator focusing on simplifying the Consumer Protection and Financial Sectors Regulation Acts. I subsequently moved on to manage a team of content creators through a sprint-based structure, ensuring timely delivery of accurate and accessible legal content.

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  LIPCO - LAW FOR ALL

  Feb 2020 - May 2022

  - Collaborated directly with executive stakeholders from operations, sales, compliance, legal, corporate development, and human resources to ensure alignment of product goals with overall company objectives. - Managed the backlog for the development team, ensuring its completeness, accuracy, and alignment with the broader company context. - Created roadmaps, standard operating procedures, structure diagrams, wireframes, and user stories to guide the agile team of 8 developers in building software solutions. - Led and facilitated agile ceremonies, both in Scrum and Kanban methodologies, including Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Review, and Refinement. - Ensured effective prioritization of product features and requirements based on business value, customer needs, and strategic considerations. - Acted as a bridge between stakeholders and the development team, facilitating clear communication and understanding of product vision and requirements. - Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, QA, and project managers, to drive successful product delivery. - Conducted regular reviews and assessments of product performance, incorporating user feedback and data-driven insights into iterative product improvements. - Stayed updated on industry trends, competitor analysis, and market dynamics to inform product strategy and enhance the company's competitive position. Show less

  • Product Owner

    Apr 2020 - May 2022

  • Legal Technology Researcher

    Feb 2020 - May 2022
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  Legal Hackers Cape Town Chapter

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  Co Organizer

  As an organiser of the Legal Hackers Cape Town chapter, I helped identify leaders in the legal technology space and assisted with the organisation of meetups to share the knowledge. I also presented some of my research on the history and development of legal technology around the world.

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  Lacoona Legal

  May 2022 - Aug 2023

  Head of Product

  - Led product roadmapping and collaborated with founders to envision the overall product development strategy. - Translated new feature ideas into actionable work items for the Kanban development cycle, ensuring their understanding and refinement. - Implemented and managed Agile development processes, leveraging my PO qualification and experience to introduce a new Kanban structure, resulting in improved productivity. Conducted agile ceremonies, including Refinement, Review, Planning, and Retro. - Developed proficiency in our tech stack (Python, HTML, CSS, React(JSX)) to contribute to the codebase and built numerous frontend features, including some full-stack functionalities that involved database integration. - Designed and built an AI Document Review feature, involving the decoding and cleaning of word documents, appending and refining relevant prompts based on context, and utilizing the OpenAI API for response generation. - Implemented Google Tag Manager and connected our database to Power BI for business analytics purposes. Established comprehensive reports tracking conversion, site-use, feature-use, and other pertinent metrics. - Conducted user outreach and interviews, engaging with website users, potential feature users, and lawyers interested in our solution. Show less

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  KTOB

  Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

  Product Consultant and PO Coach

  - Product Road mapping with the Director of Operations to understand and refine the big picture goals of the business and how they translate into product requirements.- Work with Product Owners to understand user requirements and how they fit into the product roadmap.- Initiate and review Scrum and Kanban workflows for Product, Operations, and HR.- Work with Product Owner and Development team to ensure feature requirements are effectively specced out for effective product development.- Coaching a new Product Owner on Agile methodologies, feature creation, user interviews, and running ceremonies. Show less

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  Thrive_trade

  Sept 2023 - now

  Technical Product Owner and Business Analyst