Product Manager Apply Experience

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Product Manager this is a 14month fixed-term position in the Apply Experience team at the heart of SEEKs marketplace helping millions of candidates to find jobs on our web and mobile apps platforms in Australia New Zealand Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Philippines Hong Kong and Thailand.

Our product ambition is to ensure there are no missed opportunities to connect talent to job opportunities ensuring candidates prefer to use SEEKs brands by offering ease and best in class ways to connect and standout with trust to employers while being empowered with information about their hiring outcomes and next best actions.

In this role you will be responsible for solving real candidates problems whilst balancing employers and business needs. As such you should demonstrate the following key product competencies:

Responsibilities

Product Execution

• Partner closely with team members to manage and ship products into market translating. ambiguous business goals into clear product specifications with the appropriate level of detail
• Leverage technical awareness to make reusable scalable product decisions and reduce uncertainty risks by surfacing and testing assumptions to confirm product viability feasibility and desirability.
• Balance speed and quality trade-offs and engage stakeholders timely to deliver user value quickly.

Customer & Market Insight

• Deliver product initiatives candidates really want and that work for the business by interpreting customer behaviour and feedback and running statistically sound experiments.
• Ensure team is crafting intuitive and delightful user experiences by leveraging the appropriate combination of data analysis experiments competitive reviews and user research.
• Demonstrate strong analytical judgment by defining and monitoring product metrics converting dashboards into clear actionable data-informed business recommendations.

Product Strategy

• Articulate how current work connects to broader team and business goals making proactive recommendations to achieve short and long-term strategic objectives.
• Show product ownership focusing on outcomes over outputs delivering measurable and relevant results that contribute to achieving our core marketplace ambitions.
• Influence the teams roadmap by defining and maintaining a clear sized and prioritised list of problems features and initiatives that deliver against the product vision.

Influence & Leadership

• Drive crossfunctional collaboration by fostering a culture of accountability over outcomes and shared success that builds towards an empowered team mindset.
• Map and align stakeholders integrate early feedback into product decisions and escalate thoughtfully to remove blockers and maintain momentum.
• Clearly communicate status risks and decisions setting accurate expectations and enabling evidence-based tradeoffs decisions.

Qualifications :

Skills and experience

• A strong learning orientation and growth mindset with previous experience in product management.
• Selfmotivated curious and comfortable with ambiguity capable of adapting as context shifts and to prioritise amid competing demands.
• Effective communication skills and ability to influence and persuade across all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated empathy and ability to build trusted collaborative relationships across disciplines and regions balancing diverse perspectives to reach better outcomes.
• Ability to break constraints and get things done including a willingness to roll-up your sleeves and pitch in where required.
• Experience in or willingness to learn analytical tools and techniques; defines success metrics interprets dashboards and runs sound experiments (e.g. A/B tests) with basic statistical judgment.
• Willingness to learn and apply Agile delivery practices; facilitates squad rituals manages backlogs/roadmaps and acceptance criteria and uses Jira/Confluence for transparent workflows.
• Ability to translate ambiguous goals into clear product specifications and lightweight prototypes with the right level of detail to enable smooth delivery.
• Strong customer and market insight skills; selects the right mix of qualitative research quantitative analysis and competitive review and partners with design to craft intuitive patternconsistent experiences.
• Strategy and risk orientation; connects work to business objectives prioritises a focused roadmap and derisks viability feasibility and desirability through hypothesisled research prototyping and experimentation.

Additional Information :

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Frequent events including sports days year-end party hackathon and trivia
• Casual dress every day

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 dont 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 with 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time