Data Product Owner

at  MultiChoice Group

Designation:
Data Product Owner
Category:
Showmax SA
Level:
Closing date:
13 May 2024
Position Type:
Permanent
Location:
MultiChoice City

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across more than 50 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment.
By joining our passionate and creative team, you can help us achieve our objectives of expanding our pay-TV and SVOD (Subscription Video On demand) subscriber bases, improving advertising sales, spearheading cutting-edge technology, supporting local content and providing an exceptional customer experience.
Join Africa’s most loved storyteller!

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science or engineering or focus on data/statistical analysis or equivalent experience. Post graduate qualification would be an advantage.

EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• 5+ years of experience in a data related role (SQL, familiarity with data pipelines, data quality, audience management, ETL, event analytics)
• Experience with Data Lake/CDP strategies and partnering with IT on data architecture and identity resolution solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate and coordinate between teams.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills – ability to manage expectations.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to logically analyse complex requirements, data sets, processes and systems.
• Strong knowledge of data engineering practices such as ETL pipelines, API’s and data warehousing.
• Excellent organizational skills that will allow you to deal with uncertainty by creating structure and prioritizing effectively.
• Experience of working in an agile environment.
• Passionate about data and evangelical about its role in driving better business decisions.
• Creative problem-solver; takes a high level of initiative, has a strong sense of personal accountability to follow-through at all times.
• Demonstrates organisational savvy by successfully navigating complex, highly matrixed and decentralized organization.
• Takes an informed and inspired view to deliver superior results by creating value and opportunity.
• Not afraid to challenge and comfortable expressing their opinions while also being receptive to the views of othersTECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• API Integration
• Cloud Platforms
• Data Analysis and Visualisation
• Data Management
• Data Quality and Governance
• Data Security
• Machine Learning
• Predictive Analytics
• Product Management
• Project Management

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

• Owning, managing and supporting the data across the underlying systems and technology stack that allows the marketing and advertising team to engage customers across the workflow for all marketing activities.