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).

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Scale: Show the millions of Takealot Group customers what you can do
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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.

Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Determine, monitor and analyze quantitative and qualitative data in order to identify opportunities for retail media optimisations and features that will drive product growth.
Build and maintain reporting to measure the success of projects.
Apply strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions across the retail media product portfolio.
Leverage advertising tool experience with platforms such as Google Analytics, Looker and other ad manager/server platforms and reporting/targeting tools to extract key insights and drive data-informed product decisions.
Own and maintain the accuracy of in-app analytics (in-app events) and customer data points, to ensure product data is reliable for targeting and conversion tracking.

Product Strategy and Roadmapping

Determine, scope, prioritise and manage the retail media product roadmap.
Maintain and prioritise the product backlog through collaboration with the Head of Product, Product Lead, multiple business stakeholders, and senior management.
Ensure that prioritised projects are placed on the development roadmap and communicate all requirements to all necessary stakeholders across the business