Takealot.com is the leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent.
Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that the customer comes first.
All of our focus is dedicated to improving the customer ...
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Building the overall vision and roadmap of the Payments portfolio on all Takealot shopping platforms (web and apps).
Participate in shaping takealot.com’s payment strategy and impacting how over 4 million South Africans pay for the things they love.
Work cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will improve payment-related processes.
Define a compelling long-term product vision (3–5 years) and strategy for your product area, aligned with business goals and grounded in customer needs. Focus on elevating the end-to-end digital experience through innovation, differentiation, and the smart application of emerging technologies.
Own and maintain an actionable product roadmap that clearly prioritizes features, enhancements, and strategic initiatives. Ensure the roadmap reflects evolving business priorities, customer feedback, and technological opportunities.
Leverage data and experimentation to continuously improve the product. Analyze performance, test hypotheses, monitor key metrics, and use customer insights to identify and deliver impactful optimizations.
Take responsibility for talks and negotiations with partners dealing with payment services, while getting to work with experts in the payment space to implement solutions that improve how millions pay.
Research the best solutions in the payments market. Keep up to date with the latest trends and developments and build cases for projects that can move the business forward.
Drive conversion rate optimisation as it relates to online payments.
Work with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities in order to translate their needs into projects for payments.
Defining/tracking the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on product features and functionality.
Analysing and understanding the project scope and core objectives through workshops with stakeholders to define business requirements.
Eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by Engineering.
Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
Evolve appropriate Product Management practices for a responsive, dynamic environment to foster effective execution of commitments.
Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
Setting timelines, driving project schedules, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
Performing user acceptance testing.
Qualifications & Experience:
Minimum bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering
At least 7 years product management experience preferably in eCommerce/online retail/payments with 2-4 in product leadership/strategic role
Needed strong strategic thinking and product discovery experience — you’re not just executing, you’re setting vision and direction.
Needed experience in discovering and leading cross functional product initiatives.
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