Product Manager (Retail Media)

Takealot Group is looking for a highly talented Product Manager (Retail Media) to join our team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people to join us.

The Product team at Takealot Group is passionate about creating experiences that satisfy & delight our customers, while ensuring we continuously acquire and retain customers to exceed our growth objectives. As Product Manager (Retail Media), you will be responsible for owning the strategy, roadmap, growth, and execution of the retail media product portfolio across Takealot Group's properties (Android, iOS, and Web). This includes everything related to ad serving, campaign management, targeting, and reporting integrations with retail media and advertising tools such as OSMOS, Google Ad Manager, DV360, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Braze. This is a critical part of scaling retail media revenue, maximizing value from our ad tooling, and improving advertiser outcomes and customer experience across the platform.

You will work cross-functionally across our product, UX, engineering, growth, and other business teams to design, implement, and launch features that have a direct impact on the growth of Mr D.

This position reports to the Head of Product (Retail Media).

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Show the millions of Takealot Group customers what you can do • Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. • Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, TFS and Mr D.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Product development:

• Determine, scope, prioritise and manage the retail media product roadmap. • Ensure that prioritised projects are placed on the development roadmap and communicate all requirements to all necessary stakeholders across the business. • Proactively communicate and collaborate with the project teams to analyse any additional information needs related to functional requirements. • Manage the execution and rollout of features in the customer-facing apps, including any retail media-related features. This includes the entire product development cycle from design, documentation, implementation, testing, and launch to success metric monitoring. • Write detailed product specification documents for the engineering and design teams. • Engage with subject matter experts to analyze trade-offs and resolve priority conflicts • Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending team meetings and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed. • Ensure that all requirements are met during solution design and post-implementation. • Put plans and processes in place to maximise the value that can be obtained through retail media tools, including but not limited to OSMOS, Google Ads, Meta Ads and Braze.