Product Lead, Quick Commerce

About the role

Chowdeck is an on-demand delivery service for Africa delivering food, medicine, groceries and other packages. As Product Lead, Quick Commerce, you will own the shopping experience in Chowstore, Shops and Local Markets, including the operating systems behind it: inventory, availability, picking, fulfilment and store operations. You report to the Product Executive and coordinate with other functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Own the Quick Commerce product strategy and category-specific shopping experiences
• Build and maintain a prioritised roadmap covering customer shopping and store operations
• Own the dark-store inventory flow, from intake and counts to availability, adjustments and reconciliation
• Support picking, substitution, order readiness and fulfilment
• Lead product direction for the Chowstore mobile experience
• Coordinate shared discovery, cart, checkout and completed-order capabilities with other product teams
• Define the inventory source of truth and make ownership clear at every stage of the stock lifecycle
• Balance growth with stock accuracy, picking quality, waste, shrinkage, refunds and operational workload
• Make go, revise or pause decisions when an expansion is not operationally ready

Required profile

• At least 6 years of product management experience, including commerce, retail technology, inventory or fulfilment products
• Track record of owning both customer-facing and operational product problems
• Ability to turn physical workflows into simple, reliable digital systems
• Experience leading cross-functional work across product, design, engineering and operations
• Bonus: dark store, inventory, procurement, picking or replenishment experience; mobile commerce or grocery products; launching new store locations or markets

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Housing assistance and lunch allowance