Group Product Manager | Product Data

Job no: 504930
Work type: Ongoing Full Time
Location: Various
Categories: Leadership IT/Technology Digital/Product Specialists

Aboutthe ABC

The ABC is the nations most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations culture and stories. With over 4000 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 50 locations around Australia and overseas we are proud to create curate and deliver high-quality content that informs educates and entertains Australian communities.

About the Role

This position is all about enabling the News iview and listen teams to make smarter decisions with the right data and tools. Youll work at the heart of ABCs digital transformation bridging the gap between product leaders data experts and our Audience Insights Team to create dashboards visualisations and experimentation opportunities that drive innovation. This is your chance to make a real difference in how Australians connect with ABCs digital content while working in a supportive creative and inclusive environment.

Key Accountabilities

Strategy & Planning

• Lead the ongoing uplift of data literacy across ABC Digital Product enabling teams to self-serve insights and make informed decisions
• Partner with engineering and data teams to translate business needs into technical requirements ensuring the delivery of effective data visualisation tools and dashboards.
• Define and integrate product data strategies working closely with Group Product Managers Engineering Managers and stakeholders
• Drive experimentation and unlock data powered innovation to shape the future of ABCs Digital Products.
• Collaborate with the Audience Insights Team to ensure shared definitions and trusted measurement frameworks.
• Drive and oversee digital product development implementation and continual review of a suite of digital products and platforms to achieve outstanding digital audience experiences.
• Drive and develop highly effective innovative and measurable product strategies to achieve objectives that will engage retain and build new audiences.
• Support the definition and implementation of product development metrics across Digital Product in partnership with key stakeholders to inform team roadmaps.

Leadership

• Lead and manage product teams and drive a high-performance culture to contribute to the achievement of Digital Products objectives.
• Define and operationalise a framework to enable product teams to meet the required quality of event tagging in line with shared data event schemas.
• Contribute to Digital Product leadership in coordinating efforts across leadership peers with an active hand in aspects including budgeting team structures and resourcing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation creating alignment on shared data definitions and inspiring confidence in data quality.
• Partnering with product teams to capture the required data to inform their product development with easy to use visualisation tooling and techniques.
• Foster a culture of creativity that drives staff to continually seek new innovative ways to deliver content and reach audiences.
• Lead procurement maintenance and oversee performance of product analytics platforms.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong trusted relationships with senior product managers across News iview and listen on priorities and opportunities.
• Demonstrated strength in stakeholder management with the ability to influence negotiate and build alignment across diverse teams and leaders.

About You

• Proven people leadership skills including managing mentoring and developing high-performing teams.
• Experience in product management data analytics or digital product development with a focus on enabling product teams through data.
• Ability to bridge technical and non-technical perspectives to deliver practical user-friendly solutions.
• Solid experience with data visualisation tools and platforms (e.g Snowplow Snowflake dashboards or similar).
• Expertise and knowledge on competitive trends in product development and product analytics to support continuous improvement of product team practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a creative experimental mindset.
• Commitment to inclusive leadership and fostering diversity in teams and ways of working.

Whats In It For You

Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABCs digital future where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australias most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.

As a group of product and platform teams we develop and maintain the ABCs audience facing digital products across mobile connected TV desktop and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news bringing some great TV on iview streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app - the ABCs Digital Product offerings are some of Australias most loved and most used platforms.

Your work will be appreciated by millions of audiences across Australia. We are an open and cohesive team where your voice will not get lost. You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog: are committed to career development and invest in our people to grow and become leaders in their fields. Everyone in the Digital Product department has a designated budget for training and development. We believe in flexible approaches to working and building self-organising and collaborative teams that offer friendly and supportive environments in which all team members can strive and grow.

For further information on this position please contact Jamie Nedved Digital Talent Acquisition Lead via email

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.

In line with our focus ondiversity applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds people with disability and LGBTIQA individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce

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Advertised: 26 Aug 2025 12:00 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 23 Sep 2025 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time