--- title: "Head of Product - Mr D" company: "takealot.com" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/takealot-com" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-head-of-product-mr-d-376820b3-e18f-4ade-b5cc-b0684d61776e" apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8195227" workplace: onsite location: "Cape Town" employment_type: unspecified seniority: vp role: other region: middle-east-africa date_posted: 2026-09-11T12:53:27.000Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:07:02.548Z --- # Head of Product - Mr D **takealot.com** · Cape Town Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8195227 ## About the role Mr D is looking for a seasoned **Head of Product** to join its executive leadership team in Cape Town. This role will oversee the product teams responsible for the customer experience of Mr D on mobile apps and web. The role will work closely with engineering, operations, and executive teams to bring new features to market. **Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!** - Scale: Show the millions of Mr D 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](http://takealot.com), TFS and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. **This position reports to the Takealot Group CPO and Mr D CEO and will be responsible for managing a team of 10+ Product Managers who oversee the Mr D customer experience and various business-facing applications.** Your responsibilities will include: - As a member of the executive leadership of Mr D, contribute towards defining key business strategies and related tactical objectives to deliver against set growth and profitability targets for Mr D. - Play a meaningful leadership role across the Mr D product team to ensure ongoing alignment with the defined company values. - Work with executives and stakeholders to translate defined business objectives into a product vision for a number of product verticals, making use of relevant internal and external data sources. - Manage a team of product managers and designers responsible for delivering feature roadmaps for the Mr D customer-facing experience as well as the internal business-facing tools necessary for the day-to-day management of merchandising and marketing. - Promote a mindset of customer-centricity and champion user interface improvements based on industry best practices. - Drive workshops to ideate solutions for key business challenges and steer the execution of the solutions. - Advocate for experiment-driven learning and empower the product and engineering teams to iterate and improve on a daily basis. - Oversee the definition and tracking of KPIs that will inform decisions on product features and functionality. - Facilitate the alignment of project delivery expectations with stakeholders and ensure reliable delivery against them. - Define and evolve processes and ways of working to promote increased efficiency and output across product and engineering. - Work with engineering leadership to ensure product and engineering teams are properly structured to achieve the desired business outcomes. - Define hiring objectives to meet business goals and support recruitment efforts through the improvement of recruitment tools and processes. - Establish a culture of product management excellence with constant feedback and mentorship to highlight improvement opportunities for product managers across the organisation. **Required Qualifications & Experience** - A Bachelor’s degree or Advanced Diploma in a relevant field - 10+ years of product management experience or relevant exposure (through projects or responsibilities). - At least 3 years of experience managing a team (or teams). - Proven track record of delivering business value through project delivery. **Desired Attributes** - Ability to wear multiple hats to guide product managers, UX experts, and engineering managers to deliver world-class products - Proficient in working closely and collaboratively with multiple departments and executives and leading cross-functional teams. - Exceptional communication and presentation skills and ability to articulate strategies in terms of impact on business metrics. - Ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations, identifying critical problems and driving solutions - Thorough knowledge of prevailing and emerging mobile and e-commerce trends and technologies - Data-driven decision-making - An avid customer advocate - Exceptional planning and project management skills - An appreciation for best practices and innovation in product design, user experience, and team management. - A self-starter who works efficiently **Like what you see? If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!** *Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.* --- Source: takealot.com's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-head-of-product-mr-d-376820b3-e18f-4ade-b5cc-b0684d61776e