Mr D - Junior Product Manager (Retail and Shops)
Mr D - Junior Product Manager (Retail and Shops)
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Mr D a division of 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:
- Bachelors 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:
Lets 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 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 chatsandworking from home We offer 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 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 youll 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 seeIf you meet the above you are anExtraordinary Mind.Apply today!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
