Impact

Product Manager, Data Products

Cape Town. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own the foundational data layer including taxonomy ecosystems for partner, brand, product, and content classification. You will manage the operational and structural integrity of taxonomies and the pipeline for promoting data assets from prototype to production.

What you will do

  • Own and evolve classification structures for partners, brands, products, and content.
  • Design and maintain the GEO prompt category taxonomy.
  • Build proprietary product taxonomies for financial services, B2B, and travel.
  • Own the action tracker taxonomy and audience segmentation taxonomy.
  • Collaborate with category and domain experts to refine taxonomy definitions.
  • Conduct deep-dive audits into taxonomy coverage, consistency, and correctness.
  • Define and track data quality KPIs and drive remediation.
  • Root-cause and resolve systematic misclassification issues at scale.
  • Build monitoring and alerting for taxonomy or data quality degradation.
  • Co-own the developer playbook for promoting taxonomies from BigQuery to SingleStore.

Required qualifications

  • 4+ years in a technical Product Management, data Product Management, or data governance role, with direct ownership of a taxonomy or classification system at scale.
  • Working fluency in SQL.
  • Demonstrated comfort operating inside a dbt workflow.
  • Demonstrated experience designing or maintaining a taxonomy or classification system.
  • Experience with BigQuery and/or SingleStore, or similar warehouse-to-serving-layer promotion patterns.
  • Strong written documentation habits.
  • Comfort with ambiguity in messy, real-world data.
  • Bachelor's in a quantitative field (CS, Statistics, Math, Engineering, or similar).

Nice to have

  • Master's/PhD
  • Experience with GMC (Google Merchant Center) taxonomy or similar commerce/product classification standards.
  • Background in a marketplace, affiliate, or partner-ecosystem business.
  • Familiarity with entity resolution, deduplication, or classification modeling concepts.
  • Exposure to master data management (MDM) or data governance practices.

Benefits

  • Responsible PTO policy
  • Up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year
  • Monthly gym reimbursement policy
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with a 3-year vesting schedule
  • Free Coursera subscription
  • PXA courses
  • 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver
  • 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver
  • Technology stipend for home office setup
  • Monthly allowance for internet expenses

About the company

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform. Its products unify every type of partner into one integrated platform to drive performance-based growth.

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