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Product Lead (Dark Store Fulfilment Systems)

Cape Town Office🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-27

Core

Own the strategic roadmap and functional requirements for hyper-local micro-fulfillment networks, bridging operations, commercial teams, and engineering to enable ultra-fast delivery.

Role type

Senior Product Lead (Fulfillment Systems)

Builds

Core software foundations for dark store operations, including WMS implementation, stock transfer workflows, real-time inventory visibility, and driver-to-store handoff.

Domain

E-commerce logistics / Dark store fulfillment

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Strategic product vision, WMS vendor selection and implementation, inventory management logic, API and middleware integration, data-driven decision making, stakeholder alignment

Preferred skills

Experience scaling backend operational platforms, operational problem solving, mentoring product talent

Technologies

Oracle WMS, microservices, ERP systems

Responsibilities

Drive functional evaluation and implementation of scalable Warehouse Management Systems (WMS); Define business logic for automated stock replenishment triggers; Establish data freshness SLAs for real-time stock availability; Design rules for dynamic inventory safety buffers to prevent overselling; Own the digital workflow for transitioning orders from packing to on-demand delivery.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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