General Manager, Engineering (Consumer Product)

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

This is your opportunity to Lead, develop and mentor a multi-disciplinary team with a strong focus on people as part of our Consumer Product development team. The Consumer Product team focuses on the core marketplace experience and its six non-auto verticals, and consists of three main focus areas: Buy, Sell and Membership. It is responsible for managing the consumers buying and selling experience on the retail sites, including the current suite of products and services as well as supporting carsales’ ongoing growth ambitions and track record of product innovation and delivery.

What’s on offer

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, paid reproductive health leave.

What you’ll do

Your focus will be to grow a world-class team (hiring and coaching) and putting them in the best position to succeed. You will also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals. You are a high achiever who enjoys improving existing core capabilities and expanding competitive advantage through the development and implementation of new commercial customer facing technology solutions.

• Own the engineering strategy and execution for carsales' Consumer business, covering product development, platform architecture, and engineering practices
• Collaborate with product, data and technology leaders to guide the vision of the engineering and product delivery landscape
• Build an exceptional team and drives behavioural and cultural standards across their vertical
• Hold your teams, collaborators and themselves accountable for delivering strategic outcomes to a high standard
• Lead the strategic planning and execution of our engineering roadmap and architectural evolution
• Oversee the evolution of platforms and internal systems, while driving the pragmatic adoption of emerging technologies and architectural patterns
• Distil company-level objectives into business unit-level sub-objectives, and proactively create alignment at all levels
• Ensure engineering initiatives are aligned with carsales' operational and commercial goals
• Establish disciplines (within engineering and with collaborating teams) that balance innovation velocity with operational reliability for speed to market and sustainable scale

What we are looking for?

• Success building strong engineering teams and an all-of-business-first culture
• Proven experience developing technology strategy that enables company-level objectives, and fostering alignment across diverse stakeholders
• Demonstrated influence skills to navigate cross-functional dynamics, enable robust debate and create unified commitment ('disagree and commit') towards shared objectives
• Advanced understanding of software engineering fundamentals, architecture principles, and system design, along with related domains such as infrastructure, data and operations
• Technical agility to lead decision-making across disciplines including: core backend (e.g. .NET / Java) and front-end (e.g. React/Angular) frameworks, cloud infrastructure, architecture & design patterns (e.g. API design), data-intensive systems, DevOps (CI/CD, SRE), and security
• Track record defining and leading teams in executing practical engineering roadmaps aligned to business objectives
• Experienced guiding senior leadership on advancing product development and technical excellence agendas
• Able to independently negotiate complex trade-offs between technical architecture, commercial requirements and strategic considerations behind a multi-year plan
• The operating range to work broad and deep, communicating appropriately with stakeholders at a range of levels

A few other things we want to let you know about...

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask!
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.