20.07.2024
Product Manager (Marketing)
takealot.com
South Africa, Cape Town
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takealot.com , a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager (Marketing) to join our team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people to join us. We offer market-related benefits, a great work environment, and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great. Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again! This position reports to the Head of Product Your Responsibilities will include: Building the vision and roadmap for the Takealot marketing portfolio with an emphasis on integrating our marketing tech stack with our customer-facing platform Working with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities that can help translate their needs into projects for engineering teams Taking initiative to identify critical problems and drive solutions Suggesting ideas to solve customer challenges and validate them in close collaboration with UX Eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that engineering teams can compile detailed technical specifications. Collaborating with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs Setting timelines, drive project schedules, and lead cross-functional development teams from design through to release Extracting key insights from data for post-launch impact analysis Understanding key technical KPIs to ensure alignment with business KPIs Reviewing the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage Performing user acceptance testing Attributes Required: Must have a proven track record of execution with the ability to formulate a detailed product roadmap Ability to wear multiple hats to guide junior product managers, business analysts, UX experts, and engineers to deliver world-class products Be 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 Stakeholder management (both communicating and reporting to key stakeholders) Detail-orientated written and verbal communication skills Technical understanding of the software development process Data-driven decision-making capabilities Qualifications&Experience: Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field with at least 5 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, at least 8 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) Understanding of marketing principles, technologies, and tools (e.g., CRM, marketing automation, marketing channel attribution, analytics, marketing adtech, affiliate marketing) Experience in an e-commerce environment or a mobile app-based environment would be an advantage . Knowledge about marketing technology products like Google Analytics, Braze, and AppsFlyer is highly desirable. The Environment: takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun, and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa. We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve. We are short on ego and high on output. We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all. We love what we do and what we are creating. 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? Birthday leave : Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. Right tools, right job : We work on Mac, but whether you prefer two monitors or one. You’ll work on the latest tech, with the latest tech. Help when you need it most : Confidential counseling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. Tech stack (for days): Angular, Scala, Kotlin, 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). If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us and show millions of shoppers what you can do! Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply . #J-18808-Ljbffr
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