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Senior Product Manager – Data & Enrichment
- Permanent Role
- Melbourne Based
- Hybrid Ways of Working
We're REA
With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home.
Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to have been named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.
Where the Property and Search portfolio fits in:
Sitting within the Consumer line of business, and reporting up to the EGM – Consumer, the Property and Search portfolio is focused on helping consumers search and discover property.
This portfolio encompasses some of Australia’s leading property brands including - flatmates.com.au (Australia’s biggest rooms for rent site), property.com.au (Australia’s 3rd largest property site) and of course realestate.com.au (Australia’s largest property site).
With big aspirations ahead, this portfolio has both transformational initiatives as well as opportunities to test, learn and move fast with new technologies across brands. With AI, Search, Data and growth at the centre of our focus, we have opportunity to truly change the way the world experiences property.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a visionary and technically-astute Senior Product Manager to lead our property & listing data enrichment domains. This is a pivotal role responsible for the strategic development of consumer roadmaps to support the 12m+ consumers coming to our experiences every month. You will lead 2 dedicated engineering squads to build and scale the services/platform that acquire, enrich/aggregate and serve data that power experiences across our consumer facing apps and websites.
Your mission will be to lead the teams that source and transform data into a cohesive, near real-time, and intelligent source of truth about property in Australia, unlocking enormous value for our consumers. You will be a key leader in our product organization, working with a broad group of stakeholders to balance strategic initiatives and deliver tangible business impact. Included in this is working closely with consumer and AI squads prioritise and create market leading experiences powered by unparalleled listing and property data.
As Senior Product Manager, Data & Enrichment your responsibilities will include the following areas:
Strategy
- Articulate and provide thought leadership on the consumer listing and property data strategy
- Research and identify new strategic property data opportunities that align with our vision and meet consumer needs and quality standards
Product Management
- Define and manage clear, outcome-oriented roadmaps for 2 engineering squads, balancing long-term needs of scale/re-use with near-term market responsiveness considerations
Consumer Focus, Influencing & Communication
- Prioritisation for impact - balance system consolidation, execution of tech strategy alongside market facing outcomes
Managing Performance & Lifecycle
- Make recommendations on whether to grow, evolve or retire products balancing strategic direction with product performance and investment outlook.
Data & Technology
- A champion for data quality and ensuring our product, data and technology solutions adhere to the dimensions of data quality, including but not limited to, accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and security/privacy.
- Help drive data and technology design choices while clearly articulating the decision-making criteria to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Working closely with AI/ML teams to ensure data models support Ai model development
What we’re looking for
- Hands on experience of some form working with data will be highly regarded – from a product management, analyst, engineering, consulting, or other perspective.
- Demonstrated ability to manage product or project roadmaps with trade-offs and dependencies.
- A self-starter and innovative thinker who keeps their finger on the pulse with the latest data trends
- Solid prioritisation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with data platforms, data models for AI and event driven architectures highly regarded
- Familiarity with Data Governance, Privacy and Security concepts and policies well regarded.
Qualifications & Experience
- An experienced professional with a passion for data, 7+ years professional experience working in a commercial data environment with a proven track record for delivery.
- Prior experience in product management highly desired.
- Prior experience with data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes and/or databases highly desired.
- Prior experience in product delivery, ideally in an Agile environment.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications desirable.
The REA experience
The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow.
Some of our Perks & Benefits include:
- A hybrid and flexible approach to working
- Flexible leave options including, birthday leave and purchase additional leave
- Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
- Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity
- Hackdays so you can bring your big ideas to life
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.
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