Ozow (PTY) Ltd

Meet Ozow

Ozow is the future of payment — a world-class payment platform for customers and merchants that is Ozow easy, Ozow fast and Ozow secure. With benefits as big as our ambitions, we’re looking for candidates who can inspire us and be inspired by us. We’re striving to become the industry leader that provides the simplest and easiest way to pay. And while we’re on our way to building an inclusive payments market, we’re building an equally inclusive workforce. So, join us as we achieve big things and beyond.

 

 

More about this Ozow fantastic position

The role of Head of Insights, Analytics, and Data Science at Ozow is for you if you are a respected thought leader in this field that has the ability to empower Ozow to make optimal decisions to accelerate our growth.

 

You will be the founding member of a Data Science and Business Analytics team and you will build a team, tools, processes, and governance infrastructure that will allow us to drive even smarter decision-making capabilities across Ozow. You will be primarily tasked with building a technology stack and environment with the aim of empowering the business with Big Data-driven by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and predictive analytics built on AWS and other leading best-practice software and applications.

The role reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer, and together you will champion a culture of an obsession for insights that have no limitations – from our customers to product development to marketing to operations to sales.

 

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

• A Masters or Ph.D. (preferred) in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or Finance.
• A proven track record of 8+ years of experience in building, developing, and managing enterprise Business Intelligence platforms, database technologies, and visualization tools.
• Experience leading technical teams to deliver large-scale analytics and business intelligence projects which require extensive collaboration across multiple teams.
• Expertise in BI reporting and data platforms including Tableau, Redshift, DynamoDB, Hadoop, PowerBI, SQL Server.
• Expert knowledge and execution capabilities of common data structures, languages, and tools (e.g. SQL, Python, R, Storm, Kafka).
• Experience in scaling and enhancing data capabilities, workflows, and reporting.
• Expert level execution capabilities for modern recommender systems and algorithms, A/B testing, data modelling, and experimentation.
• Experience and good knowledge of cloud platforms, especially in AWS with RedShift, Kinesis, SageMaker, and others.

 

Your roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating the vision and strategy for the Data Science, Insights, & Analytics team and building a team to execute on this vision.
• Accountable for implementing the Data Science, Insights, & Analytics roadmap for Ozow, by defining what success looks like through insights and trends into both customer-centric and business-oriented initiatives.
• Accountable for institutionalising a data-infused decision-making framework and hypothesis-driven experimentation mindset across Ozow by standardising data collection, data automation, data management, and data use.
• Collaborating with Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer to ensure our systems architecture and overall tech stack to support a world-class Data Science, Insights, and Analytics function.
• Build partnerships with key stakeholders in Technology, Marketing, Operations, Sales, Account Management, Human Resources, Legal and Finance to identify analytical needs and gaps, challenge the status quo, improve data literacy, execute ad hoc requests, and develop self-service dashboard and visualization tools.

 

Your skills and competencies:

• Strategic in your thinking/ visionary. You are able to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way. You determine opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends.
• Creative/ innovative. You generate new and innovative approaches to problems.
• You generate new and innovative approaches to problems.
• You have experience creating new value within the business.
• Enthusiastic. You exhibit passion and excitement over work. You have a can-do attitude.
• Analytical. You structure and process qualitative and quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it. You exhibit a probing mind and achieve deep insights.
• Assertive. You move quickly and take a forceful stand without being overly abrasive.
• Able to hire and develop A Players. You source, select and sell A Players to join a company. You coach people in their current roles to improve performance and prepare them for future roles.
• Team player. You reach out to peers and cooperate with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working relationship.

 

Health and safety first

These are unprecedented times and because our people couldn’t be more important to us, health and safety couldn’t be more important to us. We’ve made sure that our office is a safe place to work and we’ll continue to do so. Our team currently has the flexibility to either work remotely or onsite during this time to ensure that we combat the spread of COVID-19. 

 

Benefits as big as our ambitions — huge

At Ozow, first and foremost, you’ll get to do meaningful work and grow your career. But we’re also not your average 9-5 company. We work together and play together and because we really care, we offer plenty of perks too.

 

Some of the things to look forward to:

Fitness challenges and healthy eating. Medical and Life insurance plans. Be the hero or toast the hero of the month at first-Friday drinks. Take half a day off from work on your birthday and let us celebrate this special day with you by giving you a little spoil. Your family is our family, they to get spoils and get to join us on special events. Our holistic wellness program will give you access to a toll-free confidential telephonic counselling line which is available in all 11 languages, 365 days a year. We thrive on seeing our team members grow by creating a learning culture. There is so much more where this came from, but enough to get you excited.

 

Convinced? We thought so.

If we seem like the kind of forward-thinking, progress-making, energetic company you’ve been waiting for, give us a shout. We’d love to hear from you.