Ayanda Pretorius

Summary

Ayanda Pretorius is a product professional with a track record of shipping high-impact work. Known for clear written communication and a bias toward measurable outcomes. Comfortable working across product, engineering, and design in fast-moving environments.

Experience

• Group PMat Northwind2012–now

  • Shipped a product initiative that improved revenue by 50%.
  • Built a scalable service adopted by 23 teammates.
  • Mentored 1 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Product Managerat Hooli2009–2012

  • Shipped a product initiative that improved retention by 53%.
  • Built a data pipeline adopted by 24 teammates.
  • Mentored 2 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Senior Product Managerat Discovery2006–2009

  • Shipped a product initiative that improved latency by 11%.
  • Built a design system adopted by 25 teammates.
  • Mentored 3 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Director of Productat Shoprite2003–2006

  • Shipped a product initiative that improved NPS by 14%.
  • Built a tooling framework adopted by 26 teammates.
  • Mentored 4 engineers; ran the interview loop.

Education

• BSc · Product

  University of Cape Town · 2008–2012

Communication log

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• outboundlinkedin8/5/2026, 3:02:59 PMby Elle

  Touching base on the AI Engineer · senior · axdemo #035 search. Happy to share more context when useful.

• outboundemail8/5/2026, 8:02:59 AM
  Screening call invitation

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