# Product Manager \(Machine Learning\) - Company: [Takealotcom]() - Location: Cape Town - Team: Takealot\.com Product - Posted: September 11, 2026 ## Job description **Takealot.com**, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented **Product Manager in Machine Learning** to join our team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! Think you've been challenged before? Think again! * Scale: Over 4.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them 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 Product Lead: Data Monetisation & ML** **Your responsibilities will include the following:** * Create and facilitate the delivery of the Machine Learning roadmap for one or more of the Takealot Group’s key AI focus areas: + Merchants (Retail & Marketplace) + Supply Chain & Logistics * 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. * 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). * Gather and use quantitative and qualitative data to help formulate product requirements. * You will also be responsible for defining and reporting on the success metrics of the projects on your roadmap. * Effectively move the needle of your vertical’s “North Star” metric through consistent execution of machine learning projects. * Become an effective evangelist of machine learning within the business vertical you serve; help stakeholders understand the capabilities and potential value of ML as well as its limitations. * Break large problems into iterative improvements that meaningfully address stakeholder and customer needs. * Balance longer-term product vision and goals with short-term wins. **Attributes Required:** * Ability to distill technical subjects to their fundamental concepts, to facilitate the effective exchange of ideas between business stakeholders and software development teams. * Strong commercial acumen for understanding the factors driving business success in a fast-paced e-commerce environment * Be comfortable with data deep-diving, individually and collaboratively, in order to generate product-level insights. * Be proactive in exploring your problem space and surroundings, in support of the product vision and roadmap of your team. * Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce uncertainty and set actionable deliverables. * Has a drive to actively unlearn and relearn mental models for as long as there is supporting data. **Experience and Qualifications:** * Product experience: + 7+ years of related and transferable experience or 3+ years of product management experience. + Experience leading and executing cross-functional projects, preferably in high-traffic environments. + Familiarity and proficiency with agile methods and tools to support project management in a timeline-sensitive environment. + High accountability when it comes to meeting deadlines and ship dates. + 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. * Data experience: + A solid understanding of AI/ML and engineering fundamentals, allowing you to understand and earn the respect of experienced machine learning engineers and data scientists. + Experience with Google Sheets and/or Microsoft Excel at an advanced level. + Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, and BigQuery or a similar technology, preferably in a high-load environment. + Preferable: Experience with either Python or R/RStudio as an aid to product decision-making. * Qualifications: + Preferably, a Bachelor’s Degree in Management Science, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science. **Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group** * **The power is in your hands**: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny. * **No doors**: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great. * **Remote working**: Love water cooler chats *and* working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds. * **Mentorship programme**: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best. * **Naspers Tech Community** **& Online Learning**: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more. * **Good times**: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini-golf, think good times). * **Staff discount**. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for? * **Birthday leave:** Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. * **Right tools, right job**: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech. * **Help when you need it most**: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. * **Free parking:** No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). **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.* ## Apply [Apply on Takealotcom]() Canonical job page: