Takealot Group - Product Manager

Takealot Group (Takealot.com), South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager to join our Takealot Group Product team. 

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. 
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

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This position reports to the Product Lead - Customer Service. 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• The overall vision and roadmap of features for the Takealot Group CS Platform, with a primary  focus on reducing contact resolution time by providing our customer service agents with the features and functionality needed to action customer requests quickly and accurately. 
• The role is inherently cross-functional working closely with customer service, engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will benefit our customers and business.
• You will work with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities in order to translate needs into recommended initiatives & projects that affect the product.
• You will define and track the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on product features and functionality.
• Create business cases to motivate the prioritization of these initiatives.
• You will analyze and understand project scope and core objectives through requirements workshops with stakeholders to define business requirements.
• You will elicit detailed, low-level functional requirements and document these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by Engineering.
• Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Evolve appropriate Product Management practices for a responsive, dynamic environment to foster effective execution to commitments.
• Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
• Setting timelines, driving project schedules, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
• Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
• Performing user acceptance testing.

The skills we need:

• Must have a proven track record of execution and can formulate a detailed product roadmap, and to execute on that plan.
• Ability to wear multiple hats to guide junior product managers, business analysts, UX experts and engineering to deliver world-class products.
• Solution-oriented, accountable, highly motivated and have a robust personality.
• The ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations, by identifying critical problems and driving solutions.
• Data-driven decision-making.
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities
• Attention to detail
• An avid customer advocate

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field and a minimum of 5 years Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• 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, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• Experience in an e-commerce environment or in an API-driven technical environment would be an advantage.
• Experience in online restaurant and grocery shopping and customer experience is advantageous 
• JIRA and Confluence experience 

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini-golf, think good times).
• Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
• TakealotMORE Benefit 
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.