Mr D - Junior Product Manager (Retail and Shops)

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