Product Manager (Fulfilment Mobile Team) - Remote

Overview

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager to join our Product Logistics team in Cape Town.

In Short

• Scale: Over 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com and 2.7 million on Mr D. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Work alongside industry leaders and up-skill in record time.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Requirements

• Building the vision and roadmap for the Takealot fulfilment mobile portfolio with a special emphasis on Android mobile applications.
• Working cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will improve our front-end experiences.
• Working with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities to translate their needs into projects for front-end engineering teams.
• Defining/tracking the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on frontend features and functionality.
• Analyzing and understanding project scope and core objectives through workshops with stakeholders to define business requirements.
• Eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that engineering teams can compile detailed technical specifications.
• 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 the effective execution of commitments.
• Be proactive in ensuring that the engineering and QA teams understand the requirements by facilitating backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
• Set timelines, drive project schedules, and lead cross-functional development teams from design to release.
• Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in the mobile app space. Conduct competitive analysis to stay current with industry trends and ensure our products are competitive.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Mobile product-specific inquiries and issues.
• Oversee the design, development, and launch of new features and enhancements to the Android apps.

Benefits

• 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: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, of 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).