The Role
The Head of Product is responsible for managing, defining, building and delivering products that transform our business model for hirers and candidates.
As owner of a high profile strategic product portfolio, the role has responsibility for products, services and new initiatives of high strategic importance, dedicated to solving important problems for SEEK, candidates and hirers.
This role will also be responsible for the leadership of a highly capable team of product experts.
Key Responsibilities
•Focus on delivering a world-class user experience that solves real customer problems through cutting-edge technology development, products and services.
•Is able to deeply understand customer needs, met, unmet, stated and unstated. Using a variety of customer immersion, quant and qual methodologies to underpin decisions in product direction.
•Using market, technology and customer input is able to innovate, test and evolve the product in a meaningful way.
•Deliver outstanding experiences to our customers, ensuring coverage of operational, technological and commercial needs.
•Understand the customer channel inter relationship with our products and services and deliver them in a way that most effectively reaches the customer.
•Deliver key metrics / outcomes and drive the evolution of product through discovery, development and optimisation via a dedicated product development stream. There is scope to ensure the ongoing evolution of the portfolio. This includes ensuring your team establishes bold and inspiring OKRs and make the right decisions to maximise achievement of them
•Work with and inspire a dedicated agile stream of product managers, engineers, UXers and analysts in the portfolio.
•Have a holistic view of your products and how they fit into the overarching experience across SEEK and work closely with other SEEK product development teams to collaborate, influence and drive a best in class hirer and candidate experiences
•Evangelise the compelling ambition and future state for your products / platforms and how we plan to achieve this, through having up to date views on their roadmaps
•Directly lead, coach and build capability of a team of talented Product Managers.
•Actively manage and engage stakeholders across the business, inspiring others and generating momentum behind the product ambition.
•Champion the voice of the customer on both sides of the employment marketplace, focusing on solving critical customer problems of high strategic and commercial importance
•Is confident in navigating the measures of product performance both within SEEK and in the external market. Can articulate drivers of performance and using those metrics can navigate to the most effective actions as a result.
•Stay abreast of industry and competitor trends
Qualifications
• A background with experience in B2B and/or B2C product management and a passion for it
• Considerable experience in online or software product development, including solid understanding of the agile software development lifecycle
• Customer centric in your approach with a strong capacity to understand market and strategic drivers to set clear goals and define problem statements
• A good understanding of how to architect product to best fit technical solutions for future extensibility and outcome delivery.
• Proven ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach – strong judgement and decision-making capability
• A track record of strong commercial thinking and judgement
• Proven ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach – strong judgement & decision making capability
• Ability to maintain and set a product roadmap while managing competing priorities from multiple stakeholders
• Ability to directly lead a multi-disciplinary team and build team capability
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes
• A high-level strategic thinker able to dip into the detail when necessary
• Excellent prioritisation skills
• Well-developed communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and persuade, build and maintain relationships
• Passionate about making a difference for SEEK and our customers
Additional information
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
The Head of Product is responsible for managing, defining, building and delivering products that transform our business model for hirers and candidates.
As owner of a high profile strategic product portfolio, the role has responsibility for products, services and new initiatives of high strategic importance, dedicated to solving important problems for SEEK, candidates and hirers.
This role will also be responsible for the leadership of a highly capable team of product experts.
Key Responsibilities
•Focus on delivering a world-class user experience that solves real customer problems through cutting-edge technology development, products and services.
•Is able to deeply understand customer needs, met, unmet, stated and unstated. Using a variety of customer immersion, quant and qual methodologies to underpin decisions in product direction.
•Using market, technology and customer input is able to innovate, test and evolve the product in a meaningful way.
•Deliver outstanding experiences to our customers, ensuring coverage of operational, technological and commercial needs.
•Understand the customer channel inter relationship with our products and services and deliver them in a way that most effectively reaches the customer.
•Deliver key metrics / outcomes and drive the evolution of product through discovery, development and optimisation via a dedicated product development stream. There is scope to ensure the ongoing evolution of the portfolio. This includes ensuring your team establishes bold and inspiring OKRs and make the right decisions to maximise achievement of them
•Work with and inspire a dedicated agile stream of product managers, engineers, UXers and analysts in the portfolio.
•Have a holistic view of your products and how they fit into the overarching experience across SEEK and work closely with other SEEK product development teams to collaborate, influence and drive a best in class hirer and candidate experiences
•Evangelise the compelling ambition and future state for your products / platforms and how we plan to achieve this, through having up to date views on their roadmaps
•Directly lead, coach and build capability of a team of talented Product Managers.
•Actively manage and engage stakeholders across the business, inspiring others and generating momentum behind the product ambition.
•Champion the voice of the customer on both sides of the employment marketplace, focusing on solving critical customer problems of high strategic and commercial importance
•Is confident in navigating the measures of product performance both within SEEK and in the external market. Can articulate drivers of performance and using those metrics can navigate to the most effective actions as a result.
•Stay abreast of industry and competitor trends
Qualifications
• A background with experience in B2B and/or B2C product management and a passion for it
• Considerable experience in online or software product development, including solid understanding of the agile software development lifecycle
• Customer centric in your approach with a strong capacity to understand market and strategic drivers to set clear goals and define problem statements
• A good understanding of how to architect product to best fit technical solutions for future extensibility and outcome delivery.
• Proven ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach – strong judgement and decision-making capability
• A track record of strong commercial thinking and judgement
• Proven ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach – strong judgement & decision making capability
• Ability to maintain and set a product roadmap while managing competing priorities from multiple stakeholders
• Ability to directly lead a multi-disciplinary team and build team capability
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes
• A high-level strategic thinker able to dip into the detail when necessary
• Excellent prioritisation skills
• Well-developed communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and persuade, build and maintain relationships
• Passionate about making a difference for SEEK and our customers
Additional information
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
