Our client, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Owner to join our Marketing team in Cape Town. Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer

Responsibilities will include:

• Creating, maintaining and owning  the Marketing product roadmap (Product Vision, Product Strategy, Product Design and Product Execution)
• Sets scope and priorities where a PI is delivered in multiple milestones, and triages priority conflicts escalated by the TPM.
• Writes the project initiative documents with Marketing Business Owners
• Performs technical project management and is accountable to Marketing Business Owner’s for on time delivery, including cross functional projects incl:

• Writing Business Requirement Specs
• Owns overall plan for each Marketing PI / project, including non-engineering tasks.
• Prioritisation of all Marketing tickets.

• End-to-end ownership of the Marketing tools and Projects, from requirements, to build, to implementation and maintenance
• Continuous Improvement/Experimentation
• Become the subject matter expert on the domain (e.g. what systems and metrics are currently in place)
• Continuous identification of problems and opportunities for improvement
• Logical problem solving to design practical, iterative solutions
• Experimenting with and verifying solutions using A/B testing
• Business requirements:
• Root cause analysis of current problem / operational challenge we are trying to solve within the team
• Logical problem solving to design simple, iterative solutions
• Gathering and documenting business requirements
• Document business impact of solution, key user stories, business rules and key metrics to measure success
• Drive cross-functional stakeholder engagement, addressing key interdependencies
• Own overall project roadmap of key initiatives & prioritisation of all business unit technical requirements within engineering team (from small fixes to large initiatives)
• Plan:
• Presenting the Business Requirements to engineering teams for estimation
• Relatively prioritising projects with stakeholders and business
• Planning the project next to other projects with the Programme Management team
• Build:
• Become the subject matter expert on the domain (e.g. what tracking and analytical tools are in place, how the team uses them, where we need to improve)
• Ensure that the development team is building the right product on agreed timelines and therefore delivering the ROI expected of it
• Collaborate with the development team and other engineering colleagues, to answer queries in a timely fashion, and clarify details required for a successful build
• Implementation:
• Evaluation of the development progress at the end of every sprint to ensure delivery of defined use cases that meet the business expectations
• Manage roll-out & implementation of product releases to business
• Maintenance:
• Creation and maintenance of the Product Backlog
• Management of priorities for maintenance
• Management reporting

Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary degree (Computer Science/Engineering/Informatics)
• Experience facilitating priorities between business and technical resources
• A proven track record of driving significant business results from the digital marketing channel
• 4+  years’ experience in a technical environment within the e-commerce/retail sector
• Experience in working with multiple software engineering teams
• Basic working knowledge of code – HTML etc, and be able to brief changes to developers on a range of topics – from SEO, to tag management, to data layer implementations to get the most out of our marketing efforts.

If you are a match for this position, please REPLY with your CV (updated & detailed) and your current CTC salary per month to While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not hear back from us within 14 days please consider your application for this particular position unsuccessful.

Ref: CT001210/MH