Product Manager - Profile & Apply Experience

at; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Melbourne is seeking a Product Manager for a 14-month contract in the Profile & Apply Experience team. You will lead a cross-functional team to deliver innovative products that solve real problems for candidates and hirers. The ideal candidate has strong communication skills, adaptability, and a passion for product management. This role offers flexible working conditions and significant opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangement

Annual Performance Bonus Plan

Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year

Frequent team events

Casual dress code

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in developing a product management career.
• Ability to influence and persuade across all organisational levels.
• Hands-on approach when needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team to deliver key metrics.
• Engage stakeholders to evaluate and prioritise customer problems.
• Maintain a holistic view of products in the SEEK experience.

Skills

Strong learning orientation

Effective communication skills

Adaptability to change

Experience with analytical tools

Knowledge of Agile methodologies

Empathy and customer-focused mindset

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Product Manager - Profile & Apply Experience

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At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multi-national technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Be part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.

Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multi-national technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.

Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, the Product manager is a 14 month contract role working in the Profile & Apply Experience team in the Candidate Domain (B2C) at Seek.

You’ll be a key contributor to the successful delivery of the Apply product vision and strategy and is responsible for leading a team to build and deliver products that solve real problems for primarily candidates, while balancing hirer needs. The Apply space is highly strategic as it is where candidates interact with hirers; so we’re looking for someone who can look at the product space from both angles of the marketplace when solving problems and identifying opportunities.

You will work with a passionate and high performing cross functional and cross regional team, specifically focusing on the candidate application and post application products across web and mobile apps, working closely with partner teams in the Candidate domain, as well as the Hirer teams who are responsible for products that directly interact with your domain.

Responsibilities

• Lead a dedicated cross-functional team across Asia Pacific to deliver key metrics and drive product evolution through discovery, development and optimisation.
• Deliver world-class user experiences that solve real problems for both candidates and hirers in the Apply Experience.
• Engage stakeholders across the business to evaluate and prioritise customer problems, ensuring clear understanding of product direction and outcomes.
• Take an analytical approach to understand data insights and apply them to product decisions and improvements.
• Maintain a holistic view of products within the broader SEEK experience, collaborating with other product teams to ensure seamless integration.
• Evangelise a compelling vision and roadmap for Apply products, staying current with industry and competitor trends.
• Champion the voice of customers on both sides of the employment marketplace, focusing on solving critical problems of high strategic importance.

Qualifications

Skills and experience

• Strong learning orientation with genuine interest in developing a product management career, demonstrating self-motivation and curiosity.
• Effective communication skills with ability to influence and persuade across all organisational levels, plus strong relationship‑building capabilities.
• Adaptability to change and competing demands, with ability to break constraints and get things done including hands‑on approach when needed.
• Experience with or willingness to learn analytical tools and techniques for data‑driven decision making.
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn Agile software development methodologies, including facilitation of squad rituals and use of tools like Jira/Confluence.
• Empathy and customer‑focused mindset with ability to understand and advocate for both candidate and hirer perspectives in a marketplace environment.

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 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 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.

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SEEK is a global leader in employment marketplaces, solving real problems for our customers and connecting the right work with the right people. Our platforms are used by approximately 50 million candidates worldwide, we have relationships with over 300,000 hirers and exposure to around 600 million people, which means we really know the markets we are operating in.

We’re passionate about impacting people’s lives when it matters most. We aspire to deliver excellence in everything we do and we continue to build a business that is an example to all.

SEEK is a global leader in employment marketplaces, solving real problems for our customers and connecting the right work with the right people. Our platforms are used by approximately 50 million candidates worldwide, we have relationships with over 300,000 hirers and exposure to around 600 million people, which means we really know the markets we are operating in.

We’re passionate about impacting people’s lives when it matters most. We aspire to deliver excellence in everything we do and we continue to build a business that is an example to all.