[Hiring] Product Manager @Takealot Group

Role Description

Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager (Catalogue) to join our Partner Services team in Cape Town. The Product team at Mr D is passionate about creating experiences that delight our customers, while ensuring we continuously acquire and retain customers to exceed our growth objectives. You will work cross-functionally across our product, UX, engineering and other business teams to build features that have a direct impact on the growth and sustainability of Mr D. This position reports to the Product Lead (Partner Services).

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Own the roadmap and execution of the catalogue management product portfolio within Mr D.
• Successful onboarding of partners and their catalogues across Food, Shops and Groceries.
• Ensure catalogues meet the standard for listing quality.
• Drive improvements in catalogue management to make life easier for our partners.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience as a Product Manager or 5 years in a software development related role (e.g. Business Analysis, Product Owner).
• Bachelor's degree or Advanced Diploma in related field.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field, an equivalent experience requirement must be met.
• Strong technical acumen for integration.
• Understand machine learning, LLM and AI concepts and how they can be used to benefit the system.
• Ability to write specifications using traditional methods as well as AI-accelerated methods.
• Experience with analysing data and making data driven product decisions. (Data proficiency beneficial.)
• Experience with wireframing or design solutions.

Requirements

• Able to prioritise and cope with competing priorities under pressure.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes less-structured, and constantly changing environment.
• Able to take initiative in ambiguous situations, by identifying critical problems and driving solutions with the relevant people.
• Very data driven and should be comfortable to make data driven decisions and be able to extract business insights from data.
• Solution oriented, accountable and highly self motivated with a robust can do attitude.
• Strong sense of ownership and determination to get things done (not scared to get your hands dirty).
• Strong organisational skills & attention to detail.
• Great people skills (Adept at working closely and collaboratively with multiple departments and executives, and in cross-functional teams).
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Eagerness to experiment, learn and grow.
• The ability to focus beyond the features on the app, but also on Partner experience.

Benefits

• Market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs.
• Remote working model with the option to come into the office.
• Mentorship programme for learning from the best.
• Access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
• Regular social events and out-of-office activities.
• Staff discount on millions of products across 28 departments.
• Birthday leave.
• Work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
• Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
• Tech stack includes ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and all things machine learning.
• Free parking.