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. As a Growth Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving the execution and on-time delivery of growth features and conversion rate optimisations within the Mr D platforms. You will work cross-functionally across our product, UX, engineering and marketing teams to design, implement, launch and measure features that have a direct impact on the growth of Mr D.
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This position reports to the Growth Product Lead.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Manage the execution and rollout of growth related features in the Mr D customer facing platforms and tools. This includes the entire product development cycle from design, implementation, testing and launch to success metric monitoring. Note: The growth product profile includes but is not limited to: Loyalty program, Email marketing, In App messaging, push notifications, CRM, digital performance marketing, promotions, brand marketing, SEO, in app merchandising and advertising, Web, as well as all channel tracking and attribution.
- Collaborate and communicate cross functionally across product, UX, engineering and marketing teams to ensure quality execution and timely delivery of growth and conversion rate optimisation features.
- Gather business requirements and act as the primary link between business stakeholders and the engineering team.
- Write detailed product specification documents to define the business needs and requirements for our engineering teams (i.e define objectives and success metrics, document business rules, define epics/user stories, write acceptance criteria, design wireframes and report on post-launch impact and improvements).
- Maintain and prioritise the product growth backlog through collaboration with multiple business stakeholders and senior management.
- Collaborate closely with data analysts to monitor and analyse product/feature metrics in order to identify opportunities for conversion rate optimisations and features that will drive product growth.
- Own and maintain the accuracy of analytics instrumentation, to ensure product analytics is reliable for the business to generate actionable insights.
- Support the marketing team by ensuring customer data points reflect correctly in the CRM and marketing attribution platforms.
- Able to prioritise initiatives that include multiple stakeholders and communicate the why, what and when effectively.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, sometimes less-structured and constantly changing environment.
- Able to take initiative in ambiguous situations, by identifying critical problems and driving solutions with the relevant stakeholders and team.
- Passion for data and is able to make data-driven decisions and communicate insights.
- Solution oriented, accountable and highly self motivated with a robust can do attitude.
- Strong sense of ownership and determination to get things done (not scared to get hands dirty).
- Strong organisational skills & attention to detail.
- Great people skills (Proficiency to work closely and collaboratively with multiple departments and executives, and in cross-functional teams).
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Eagerness to experiment, learn and grow.
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field and a minimum of 5 years Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
- In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field, an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
- Experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a tech/mobile application company with a history of Growth (Preferably in an eCommerce and mobile environment)
- Proven track record of delivering world-class software products.
- Proven ability to formulate and manage a detailed product roadmap.
- Proven track record of collaborating and communicating effectively with engineering teams and business stakeholders to deliver product features.
- Excellent understanding of conversion rate optimisation and funnel analysis.
- Excellent understanding of the mobile app development cycle.
- Experience with analysing data and making data driven product decisions. (SQL or GBQ experience beneficial)
- Experience with product analytics tools such as Firebase, Google Analytics, Looker or Amplitude would be beneficial.
- Experience with Figma, Sketch or similar tools for wireframing/designing solutions.
- Understanding of the mobile app ecosystem and the importance of acquisition and retention in the app and mobile economy.
- Basic understanding of technology stacks, databases, APIs and IP technologies.
- High level of proficiency with Google Suite, JIRA, Slack, and comfortable with learning new applications as required.
- 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).
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
