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 DescriptionAbout the role
Reporting to the Principal Product Manager, this is a 12-month fixed-term position within the Job Search team—at the heart of SEEK's marketplace.
Our team helps millions of job seekers find their dream careers through web and mobile platforms across Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
We're on a mission to transform job searching from tedious to intuitive—building intelligent tools that learn what candidates really want and connect them with roles where they'll thrive. Every experiment you run and insight you uncover directly impacts real people landing jobs that could change their lives.
This role is perfect if you're energized by the challenge of balancing what's best for candidates with sustainable business growth. You'll dive deep into experimentation, talk directly with job seekers to understand their needs, and help shape products that make finding the right job feel effortless. If you love the idea of combining data-driven decisions with genuine human impact, this is your opportunity to make a difference at scale.
Responsibilities
Product Execution
- Develop comprehensive specifications for major features using appropriate formats (specs, comps, prototypes), gather feedback throughout development phases, and support technical trade-off decisions with strong understanding of product technology and architecture.
- Drive effective implementation by balancing end-user value with delivery timelines, making smart trade-off decisions between long-term goals and short-term requirements, and escalating complex decisions appropriately.
- Manage strategic product risks by assessing market fit and technology choices, leading mitigation efforts for high-impact risks, making data-backed decisions under uncertainty, and equipping stakeholders with information for risk mitigation decisions.
Customer & Market Insight
- Extract meaningful insights from dashboards and metrics to assess initiative impact, make data-informed recommendations, and identify analytics gaps that improve decision-making.
- Execute user research by selecting appropriate feedback methods, coordinating with company tools and teams, and translating insights into actionable product enhancement recommendations.
- Evaluate product designs, provide specific improvement recommendations, guide design direction with visual problem-solving, and drive product consistency by referencing design patterns.
Product Strategy
- Build and execute initiatives that advance team goals, deliver post-launch analysis with clear next steps, achieve commitments, and communicate proactively when targets shift.
- Influence team roadmap by connecting work to goals and recommending forward-looking strategies to better achieve objectives.
- Contribute meaningfully to pillar and company strategy through product decisions and execution.
Influence & Leadership
- Align stakeholders across current and future initiatives, integrate feedback, recommend optimal paths forward, and escalate decisions when needed.
- Foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, take ownership of outcomes, communicate priorities and trade-offs, remove blockers, and mentor junior team members to build a culture of accountability.
- Report status and outcomes to senior management, surface blockers proactively, maintain alignment with your manager on expectations and feedback, and pursue career development opportunities.
Skills and experience
- Strong learning orientation and growth mindset with previous experience in product management
- Self-motivated, curious, and comfortable with ambiguity – capable of adapting as context shifts, prioritizing amid competing demands, breaking constraints to get things done, and willing to roll up your sleeves and pitch in where required
- Effective communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to influence and persuade across all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated empathy and ability to build trusted, collaborative relationships across disciplines and regions, balancing diverse perspectives to reach better outcomes
- Customer-centric approach – uses customer feedback, forums, and the right mix of qualitative research and quantitative analysis to understand underlying customer needs and market insights; partners with design to craft intuitive, pattern-consistent experiences
- Strong judgment and decision-making skills – ability to break down problems and make sound decisions with limited information, using a test-and-learn mindset driven by data
- Experience in or willingness to learn analytical tools and techniques – defines success metrics, interprets dashboards, runs sound experiments (e.g., A/B tests) with basic statistical judgment, and applies hypothesis-led research and experimentation
- 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
- Strategy and risk orientation – connects work to business objectives, prioritizes a focused roadmap, and derisks viability, feasibility and desirability through prototyping and experimentation
- Passionate about SEEK and making a difference to our customers with an energetic, enthusiastic and creative approach
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
- SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050
- Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia
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.
