Product Lead (Data Delivery & Monetisation) at takealot.com

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Create and facilitate the delivery of one or more of Takealot Group’s 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 hand-in-hand with data teams to configure and define how data can be easily discoverable by end users using an existing discovery tool.
• You will work hand-in-hand 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 hand-in-hand with a range of data teams: data engineering (data collection), analytical engineering (data marts/models), and business intelligence (dashboarding/reporting) in driving end-to-end 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 longer-term product vision and goals with short-term 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 fast-paced e-commerce environment.
• Be comfortable with data deep-diving, individually and collaboratively, to generate product-level 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 cross-functional projects, preferably in high-traffic environments.
• Familiarity and proficiency with agile methods and tools to support project management in a timeline-sensitive 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 high-load environment.
• Experience with Google Sheets and/or Microsoft Excel at an advanced level.

Qualifications:

• Preferably a Bachelor’s Degree in Management Science, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science. If you don’t have a relevant qualification, equivalent experience is required.