Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for a highly talented Junior Product Manager (Retail and Shops) to join our team in Cape Town.
The Product team at Mr D is passionate about creating experiences that satisfy & 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 of Mr D.
As a Junior Product Manager, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable gains across key business metrics by combining speed, analytical insight, and test-driven product development. You will be essential in driving growth at each stage of the product lifecycle: acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization.
This position reports to the Retail and Shops Product Lead.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
Product development
- Take end-to-end ownership of product development including documentation, implementation, testing, launch, and success metric monitoring
- Facilitate backlog grooming and planning ceremonies
- Clarify project requirements and create acceptance criteria with QA.
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
- Determine what data needs to be gathered to inform decision making around product requirements
- Gather and use quantitative and qualitative data to help formulate product requirements
- Extract key insights from data for post launch impact analysis
Product Strategy and Road mapping
- Understand the product vision and strategy
- Contribute to the roadmap to execute on the product strategy
UX and Design
- Suggest ideas to solve customer challenges and validate them in close collaboration with UX
- Clearly communicate requirements to UX/UI design resources
- Work with design resources to finalise the customer experience for a particular feature
Stakeholder management
- Ensure relevant stakeholders for a project are correctly identified and consulted
- Have a deep understanding of core stakeholder pain-points / objectives related to a project
- Manage relationships with stakeholders, related to a specific project(s), including obtaining senior stakeholder buy-in for requirements and relevant project status communications
The skills we need:
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Experience presenting to stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience working with relevant data analytics tools (e.g. Excel, SQL)
- Experience working with wireframing tools preferable
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field
- 3 years business analysis experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
- 1 year product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
- Experience with product analytics tools such as Firebase, Google Analytics or Amplitude would be beneficial.
- Experience with Invision, Balsamiq, Sketch or similar tools for wireframing/designing solutions.
- High level of proficiency with MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Google Suite, JIRA, Slack, and comfortable with learning new applications as required.
The Environment:
Let’s talk about life @ Mr D:
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which 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? We offer 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 in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
- 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): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT 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!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference