Group Product Lead, Data Platforms — Remote-First

Jobgether; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Travel opportunities

Flexible remote collaboration

International employment opportunities

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company in South Africa, is seeking a Group Product Manager, Data Platforms. You will shape strategy and roadmaps for large-scale data infrastructure spanning data engineering, experimentation, search, and site reliability, leading a small team.

You will collaborate with engineering, research, and analytics, own data pipelines and analytics tools, promote iterative delivery, and ensure data products are reliable and valuable for internal teams in a distributed,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management for data/infrastructure/analytical products.
• Experience hiring and developing Product Managers.
• Track record delivering data platforms used by multiple teams.
• Strong analytics, A/B testing, search tech, and data architecture.
• Familiarity with data pipelines, orchestration, distributed computing.
• Knowledge of search in large-scale digital products.
• Experience with privacy in data collection/retention/access.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration.
• Strong written communication for diverse audiences.
• Commitment to iterative delivery and open knowledge values.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive product strategy, roadmaps across data engineering, search, experimentation, and site reliability.
• Ensure accuracy, reliability, accessibility, and value of data products and services.
• Lead lifecycle management for data platform tools and services.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to set direction and ensure execution.
• Guide evolution of data infrastructure, pipelines, lakes, analytics tools.
• Oversee data ingestion, orchestration, computation, serving across Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, Superset, dbt, OpenSearch.
• Partner with user-focused teams to leverage platform capabilities for product decisions.
• Manage and mentor two Product Managers.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to deliver impactful solutions.
• Promote iterative delivery with MVPs that create internal value.
• Communicate strategies, roadmaps, and decisions clearly to technical and leadership audiences.

Skills

Product management

Data analytics

A/B testing

Data architecture

Stakeholder management

Communication

Leadership

Open knowledge

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Hadoop

Spark

Airflow

Iceberg

Kubernetes

Superset

dbt

OpenSearch

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company in South Africa, is seeking a Group Product Manager, Data Platforms. You will shape strategy and roadmaps for large-scale data infrastructure spanning data engineering, experimentation, search, and site reliability, leading a small team.

You will collaborate with engineering, research, and analytics, own data pipelines and analytics tools, promote iterative delivery, and ensure data products are reliable and valuable for internal teams in a distributed,