Product Lead

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is seeking a highly talented Product Lead (On-Demand Delivery) to join our dynamic team in Cape Town. If you have a genuine passion for technology and a drive to continually explore, learn, and enhance your skills, we want you! We are a hyper-growth company looking for smart, innovative, autonomous, and creative individuals to join us. Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

Our Impact

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: 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, Superbalist.com, and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports directly to the Head of Product (Group Fulfilment).

Your Mission

You will oversee the execution of large organisational goals from concept to implementation by coordinating activities across multiple cross-divisional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to identify key business needs, market trends, and opportunities to inform the product vision.
• Product Strategy: Define and articulate a product strategy aligned with the overall product vision.
• Roadmap Development: Develop and execute the product roadmap for the On-Demand Delivery product vertical, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, features, and priorities.
• Product Development: Lead product development and delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality output in collaboration with product, engineering, design, and QA teams.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Determine necessary data for informed decision-making, gather quantitative and qualitative data to formulate product requirements.
• Design Consistency: Ensure consistency of design patterns across your product portfolio.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Management: Suggest solutions to stakeholder challenges, validate with metrics, and maintain clear communication with UX/UI design resources. Take ownership of stakeholder relationships, project prioritization, and roadmap status communications.
• Customer Experience: Finalise the customer experience for features in collaboration with design resources.
• Technical Collaboration: Engage with technical teams to document non-functional requirements and contribute to technical design decisions.
• KPI Alignment: Influence and align technical KPIs with business KPIs.
• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor direct reports, fostering effective performance across teams.

Attributes Required

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude with high energy.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, leveraging data to inform decisions.
• Ability to identify improvement areas in current processes.
• Passion for tackling ambiguous, complex problems with innovative, high-quality solutions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or Advanced Diploma in a relevant field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Demonstrable experience as a Product Manager or similar role, ideally within an ecommerce or data-centric organisation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, collaborating with engineering, design, and QA teams to deliver high-quality software products.
• Demonstrable On-Demand Logistics domain experience preferred.
• Experience in owning technology products (i.e. not just operational experience).
• Proven ability to influence senior leadership through data-driven insights.

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.