Product Manager

Ten Group; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Paid time off

Sabbaticals after 5 years

Employee discounts

Remote working holidays

Job summary

Ten is expanding its Product Management function and seeks a Product Manager to own the Discovery experience across Cape Town, London, and Katowice. You will shape search, ranking, merchandising, and personalized recommendations using AI at scale.

You will collaborate with Data Science, Engineering and Design to drive strategy, run experiments, and mentor junior PMs while communicating with executive stakeholders. Fluent English is essential.

Qualifications

• At least 4+ years of experience in product management in search, ecommerce, or personalization.
• Proven ability to define strategy, roadmaps and execute at scale.
• Strong collaboration with data science, engineering and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Discovery experience: search, ranking, merchandising and personalization.
• Define long-term vision and roadmap for exploration across the platform.
• Lead data-driven experiments to improve content discoverability.
• Mentor junior PMs and align with C-level stakeholders on architecture.

Skills

Product management

Search

E-commerce merchandising

Algorithmic personalization

AI & personalization

Data-driven leadership

Executive communication

Strategic vision

English fluency

Job description

Ten is on a mission to become the most trusted service business in the world.Technology-driven Product is at the centre of our strategy to create a hugely successful service and business.Millions of members already have access to Ten’s services across lifestyle, travel,diningand entertainment on behalf of over fifty clients including HSBC,Swisscard, Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Ten’s partnerships are based on multi-year contracts generating revenue through platform-as-a-service and technology fees.

We have the advantages of already being at scale globally with a critical mass ofhigh-net-worthmembers via stable, multi-year revenue-generating contracts.We already have a market leading consumer proposition and credibility (and many integrations) with the leading suppliers/partners across our‘big 4’service categories of restaurants/travel/entertainment and luxury retail.We aredebt-free,profitable and the first B Corp listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM market).

Our plans are to continue to invest into technology (including AI) to become the main way that our members organise their leisure lives.The next few years will see Ten speed up our progress via our making the next huge steps to achieve our ambitions together.

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The role

We are a growing team navigating an exciting phase of digital transformation.We’reexpanding our Product Management function and are looking for a Product Manager. You will work closely with Product Design and Engineering across Cape Town, London - UK, and Katowice - Poland, bringing a strategic, user-centric focus to our Products.

There will be ambiguity as we define our best practices, but for the right Product Manager, this is a unique opportunity to shape how productoperatesat a global scale without being micromanaged.

With an inventory of over 650,000 hotels, 70,000 restaurants, and global event tickets, helping our members find exactly what they want is a massive challenge. You will own the “Discovery” experience: Search, Merchandising, Ranking algorithms, and Personalization,leveragingAI to surface the perfect recommendations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Ownership:Define the long-term vision and roadmap for the search and discovery experience across the platform, optimizing ranking algorithms to ensure highly relevant, premium results.

• AI & Personalization:Champion the use of member data and AI/ML to build dynamic, personalized discovery feeds, surfacing relevant content, offers, and inventory proactively.

• Merchandising Innovation:Build robust tools and features that allow us to highlight curated collections, seasonal campaigns, and exclusive partnerships effectively.

• Data-Driven Leadership:Define and track core discovery metrics (e.g., search-to-click, click-to-book, zero-result searches) and run rigorous, complex experiments to improve content discoverability.

• Cross-Functional Mentorship:Partner closely with Data Science, Engineering, and Design to turn massive datasets into an intuitive, luxurious browsing experience, while mentoring junior PMs on best practices.

• You have at least 4+ years of experience in product management, with a strong, proven background in search, e-commerce merchandising, or algorithmic personalization at scale.

• Mastering Ambiguity:You excel in environments where processes are evolving. You have a proventrack recordof bringing order to complex, ambiguous problem spaces and setting strategic direction.

• Executive Communication:You are an expert collaborator and communicator. You know how to align C-level stakeholders, push back constructively, and negotiatehighly complextechnical architectures with Engineering leads.

• Strategic Vision:You define the strategy. Youanticipatemarket trends and business needs, diving deep into data to uncover transformative product opportunities.

• Analytical rigour:You are deeply comfortable with data science concepts and understand how to measure andoptimizethe success of complex ranking and machine learning features.

• You are fluent in English.

Our people are at the heart of the business and we have a culture of recognition and reward - both through regular appraisals but also annual Extra Mile Awards where we celebrate those who have gone that extra mile in their role. We also encourage all our staff to incorporate their aspirations and interests into their career at Ten and we are there every step of the way in supporting development.

Rewards designed around you:

• Acompetitive salarydepending on experience.

• Hybrid working. You can combine working from home and working from the office.

• Paid time away from work. Our employees enjoy a competitive paid time off package, including a paid day each year to volunteer time for a good cause that is important to them.

• Paid Sabbaticals. One (1) month paid Sabbatical after every 5 years of Service, without tapping into annual leave.

• Extra Rewards. Lucrative Ten Loyalty Rewards program which includes a bonus and gift to say thank you for being part of Ten.

• Remote Working Holidays- possibilities to Travel and Work anywhere in the world!

• Employee Discounts.Access to lots of great travel and entertainment discounts as our clients’ members would!

• Be part of our global, dynamic, andinclusive Team, with diversity at its core.

• Genuinecareer opportunitieswithin a dynamic and international company.

Commitment to Diversity

We encourage diverse philosophies, cultures, and experiences. We appreciate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for our employees. This idea unites the teams at TEN. All aspects of our relationship, including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or terminate, will be based on merit, competence, performance and business needs.