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Website Takealot
Job Description:
Create and facilitate the delivery of the Machine Learning roadmap for one or more of the Takealot Group’s key AI focus areas:
Job Responsibilities:
- Effectively move the needle of your vertical’s “North Star” metric through consistent execution of machine learning projects.
- You will work closely with relevant business units to identify opportunities for driving meaningful business results through ML solutions and then work with stakeholders to prioritize projects for roadmap inclusion.
- Becoming an effective evangelist of machine learning within the business vertical you serve; helping stakeholders understand the capabilities and potential value of ML as well as its limitations.
- Solve stakeholder and customer needs in a novel and iterative manner.
- You will also be responsible for defining and reporting on the success metrics of the projects on your roadmap.
- Work hand-in-hand with a team of dedicated machine learning engineers, aiming to deliver projects reliably against projected roadmap timelines (set and communicated to stakeholders quarterly by you).
- Balance longer-term product vision and goals with short-term wins.
Job Requirements:
- Be comfortable with data deep-diving, individually and collaboratively, in order to generate product-level insights.
- Being proactive in exploring your problem space and surroundings, in support of the product vision and roadmap of your team.
- Strong commercial acumen for understanding the factors driving business success in a fast-paced e-commerce environment
- Has a drive to actively unlearn and relearn mental models for as long as there is supporting data.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce uncertainty and set actionable deliverables.
- Ability to distill technical subjects to their fundamental concepts, to facilitate the effective exchange of ideas between business stakeholders and software development teams.
- Familiarity and proficiency with agile methods and tools to support project management in a timeline-sensitive environment.
- Preferably, a proven track record in delivering machine learning and/or data products including defining AI/ML problems, defining data strategies, building ML MVPs, and subsequent maturing iterations at scale.
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field (Management Science, Statistics, Data Science or Computer Science) with at least 5 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
- In the event that the candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field (Management Science, Statistics, Data Science or Computer Science), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to at least 8 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
- Experience leading and executing cross-functional projects, preferably in high-traffic environments.
- High accountability when it comes to meeting deadlines and ship dates.
Job Details:
Company: Takealot
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, SA
Application Deadline: N/A
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