Product Manager (Payments)

Takealot.com , South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager to join the Payments team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale : Over 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn : We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and up-skill in record time.
• Grow : Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

• 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.
• 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.

• Must have a proven track record of execution and can formulate a detailed product roadmap, and to execute on that plan.
• Ability to wear multiple hats to guide junior product managers, business analysts, UX experts and engineering to deliver world-class products.
• Solution-oriented, accountable, highly motivated and have a robust personality.
• The ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations, by identifying critical problems and driving solutions.
• Data-driven decision-making with good storytelling skills.
• Outstanding organisational and communication skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities.
• Attention to detail.
• An avid customer advocate.

• 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 3 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• Experience in an e-commerce environment or in an API-driven technical environment would be an advantage.

• The power is in your hands : We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs.
• No doors : We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments.
• Remote working : Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme : Learn from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning : Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders.
• Good times : Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events.
• Staff discount : Millions of products across 28 departments.
• Birthday leave : Cake Day all the way.
• Right tools, right job : Work on the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most : Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance.
• Tech stack (for days) : ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and machine learning.
• Free parking : No more 5km fun runs to your desk.