Product Manager, Data Products

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Company

hirify.global operates a commerce partnership marketing platform that helps brands manage affiliate, influencer, content publisher, ambassador, and customer advocacy partnerships.

What you will do

• Own and evolve classification structures for partners, brands, products, and content.
• Design GEO prompt, action tracker, audience segmentation, and proprietary vertical taxonomies.
• Audit taxonomy coverage, consistency, correctness, and data quality across systems and entity types.
• Define data quality KPIs, investigate root causes of misclassification, and build monitoring and alerting.
• Co-own the prototype-to-production process from BigQuery to SingleStore, including schema reviews, classification validation, documentation, testing, and versioning.
• Translate taxonomy and data quality findings into recommendations for engineering, data science, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in technical product management, data product management, or data governance, with ownership of a taxonomy or classification system at scale.
• Working fluency in SQL and experience operating in a dbt workflow, including reading models, understanding lineage, and reviewing pull requests.
• Experience designing or maintaining taxonomy or classification systems across multiple verticals or entity types.
• Experience with BigQuery and/or SingleStore, or similar warehouse-to-serving-layer promotion patterns.
• Strong technical documentation skills and comfort working with ambiguous, messy real-world data.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, or engineering; a master’s degree or PhD is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with Google Merchant Center taxonomy or similar commerce classification standards.
• Background in marketplace, affiliate, or partner-ecosystem businesses.
• Familiarity with entity resolution, deduplication, classification modeling, master data management, or data governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Responsible PTO policy and a flexible work environment supporting work-life balance.
• Up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage.
• Monthly gym reimbursement and technology support for home-office setup and internet expenses.
• Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Free Coursera subscription, PXA courses, and paid parental leave.