Product Lead Data Delivery Governance
Product Lead Data Delivery Governance
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Takealot South Africas leading online retailer is looking for a highly talented Product Lead in Data Delivery & Governance to join our team in Cape Town.
We are a young dynamic hypergrowth company looking for smart creative hardworking people with integrity to join us!
Think youve been challenged before Think again!
- Scale: Over 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot and 2.7 million on Mr D. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best. Work alongside leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fastgrowing Takealot Group: Takealot and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Heres your chance.
Whos who in the tech space
This position reports to the Product Lead: Data & Machine Learning
Your mission should you choose to accept it:
- Create and facilitate the delivery of one or more of Takealot Groups key focus areas:
- Data collection
- Data monetisation
- Data governance
- You will work closely with product and engineering to ensure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights.
- You will own all event mechanisms across the Takealot Group namely GA4 and a proprietary event tracking system. This for instance includes creating and enforcing event naming standardisation monitoring event emissions and alerting on significant drops and deeply understanding user event payload content to suggest improvements and refinement.
- You will work closely with the commercial head of Data Monetisation to create data products and unlock revenue opportunities.
- You will project manage 3rd party data integrations as enrichment layers to existing and future data products.
- You will be responsible for sharing data with 3rd parties. This includes making current processes more streamlined while at the same time ensuring adherence to data governance requirements.
- You will work handinhand with data teams to configure and define how data can be easily discoverable by end users using an existing discovery tool.
- You will work handinhand with data teams to implement any audit findings around data governance and user privacy.
- You will ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations while monetising data products.
- You will work handinhand with a range of data teams: data engineering (data collection) analytical engineering (data marts/models) and business intelligence (dashboarding/reporting) in driving endtoend data products across the key focus areas.
- You will work closely with relevant business units to identify opportunities for driving meaningful business results through data solutions and then work with stakeholders to prioritize projects for roadmap inclusion.
- Becoming an effective evangelist of data within the business vertical you serve helping stakeholders understand the capabilities and potential value of data.
- Balance longerterm product vision and goals with shortterm wins.
Attributes Required:
- Ability to distill technical subjects to their fundamental concepts to facilitate the effective exchange of ideas between business stakeholders and software development teams.
- Strong commercial acumen for understanding the factors driving business success in a fastpaced ecommerce environment.
- Be comfortable with data deepdiving individually and collaboratively to generate productlevel insights.
- Being proactive in exploring your problem space and surroundings in support of the product vision and roadmap of your team.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce uncertainty and set actionable deliverables.
- Has a drive to actively unlearn and relearn mental models for as long as there is supporting data.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Product experience:
- 9 years of related and transferable experience or 5 years of product management experience.
- Experience leading and executing crossfunctional projects preferably in hightraffic environments.
- Familiarity and proficiency with agile methods and tools to support project management in a timelinesensitive environment.
- High accountability when it comes to meeting deadlines and shipping dates.
- Preferably a proven track record in delivering data products and subsequent maturing iterations at scale.
- Data experience:
- A solid understanding of data engineering and analytics fundamentals allowing you to understand and earn the respect of experienced data engineers.
- Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL and BigQuery or a similar technology preferably in a highload environment.
- Experience with Google Sheets and/or Microsoft Excel at an advanced level.
- Qualifications:
- Preferably a Bachelors Degree in Management Science Engineering Statistics Data Science or Computer Science. If you dont have a relevant qualification equivalent experience is required.
Lets talk about life @ Takealot Group
- The power is in your hands: We offer a marketrelated Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on be the master of your own destiny.
- No doors: We arent 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 offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
- Mentorship programme: We arent kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Nows 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 Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy Udacity Coursera and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot during regular social events and outofoffice activities (think hikes think minigolf 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 youll 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.
- Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
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If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
Employment Type
Full Time
