Senior Product Manager

• Contribute to shaping REA’s self-service data platform, influencing how data is used across the business!
• Work for a leading property brand impacting thousands of users through a key data platform!
• Permanent full time role based in Richmond or Sydney

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.

Which team is this in

The Senior Product Manager sits within Global Technology as part of the Launchpad Tribe. The mission of the ‘Data Intelligence’ pillar of Launchpad is to make it easy to understand, protect & leverage REA data. Global Technology is maturing REA’s self‑service data platform to enable our federated data operating model. The Senior Product Manager – Data Intelligence is accountable for building and evolving the data platform capabilities that allow data domain owners and data product owners to easily produce, govern, publish, discover and consume high‑quality data products at scale.

This role is hands‑on and delivery‑focused. You will lead discovery, prioritisation, and delivery of data platform capabilities that reduce friction for data producers and consumers, embed governance and guardrails by default, and accelerate value from data and AI use cases. Working closely with engineering, architecture, data management, data business partners and data domain teams, you will translate our strategic data vision into concrete, scalable platform capabilities – including areas such as data marketplace, data quality and health, data contracts and automated governance that are intuitive to use and deliver measurable impact.

Day to day of the job

• Own the product vision and strategy for self‑service data platform capabilities that enable data mesh at REA.
• Lead continuous discovery with data producers, consumers, and platform users to deeply understand needs, constraints, and pain points.
• Identify opportunities to improve usability, scalability, reliability, data quality, data health and adoption of the data platform.
• Drive the end‑to‑end delivery of core data mesh enabling capabilities, from discovery through to launch and iteration.
• Partner closely with data engineers, software engineers, and architects to shape solutions that are technically sound and product‑led.
• Make informed build vs buy recommendations using industry research and internal context.
• Ensure platform capabilities support key data mesh needs.
• Own and maintain a clear, outcome‑driven product roadmap aligned to REA’s data and AI priorities.
• Balance short‑term delivery with long‑term platform scalability and sustainability.
• Partner with the Head of Data, Data Management, Architecture, and Data Business Partners to ensure platform capabilities align to the federated data operating model.
• Work closely with product and technology leaders across the business to ensure platform solutions integrate seamlessly with existing systems.
• Drive successful rollout and adoption of platform capabilities across data domains and with data product owners.
• Define and track success measures such as usage, adoption, reliability, data quality and health indicators, time‑to‑value, and customer satisfaction.

Who we’re looking for 

• Approximately 5+ years’ experience in Product Management or Product Development, with ownership of complex platforms or technical products.
• Proven experience analysing and synthesise information on the market to determine an appropriate strategic approach whilst taking a whole business perspective, following these strategies through to benefit realisation.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills - able to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to make data‑driven decisions and communicate insights using data and visualisation.
• Proven experience working closely with technical stakeholders.
• Experience building or managing platform products, ideally in data, analytics, or developer‑focused environments.
• Familiarity with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance concepts.
• Strong product discovery skills, with the ability to translate complex user needs into clear product outcomes.
• Comfortable operating in complex, cross‑functional environments.
• Experience building self‑service data platforms or data infrastructure products is highly desirable.
• Exposure to data mesh, data‑as‑a‑product, or federated data models is beneficial.
• Experience designing or delivering data contracts, data quality frameworks, data marketplace or observability capabilities is ideal.

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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