Senior Product Manager

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

CAR Group has been driving innovation and growth since the 1990s. Collectively, our world leading marketplaces bring together deep expertise powered by the best people, data, and technology across Oceania, Asia and The Americas.

We deliver world leading technology and advertising solutions designed to make buying and selling a great experience and are the parent company of wholly owned digital marketplaces in Australia (carsales), South Korea (Encar), the United States (Trader Interactive) and Chile (chileautos), in addition to being a majority shareholder of webmotors in Brazil.

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces. We transform how people buy and sell across the globe. We discover new ideas and make them happen. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve – and we aren’t afraid to make big bets. 

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 tact, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.

Our NEXT team focusses on building new, high growth businesses and features that aim to power the future of mobility. We work on unsolved and high potential problems with a start-up mindset at rapid pace to deliver growth for the business. This role is a 12 month contract. 

What’s on offer

• The opportunity to work in a global role and make real, significant impact across all our international marketplaces.
• A place where you can move your career forward and where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team.
• A wide range of benefits such as 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, and six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, an AFR BOSS Best Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality. 

What you’ll do

This is your opportunity as the Senior Product Manager, leading a multi-disciplinary squad that is tasked with building a product that helps private vehicle buyers and sellers have a fully digitised experience. Working closely alongside a designer and a tech lead you will leverage your strategic skillset to move fast and rapidly achieve product-market fit. 

• You will lead or be involved with all aspects of helping our customers buy and sell, including defining product strategies, developing roadmaps, design, delivery, go to marketing planning, vendor management, performance monitoring and optimisation.
• Defining and communicating the Product Vision and Product Strategy to the squad and its stakeholders.
• Report on the key metrics that will determine your product's success and be responsible for commercial outcomes.
• Take responsibility for delivery timelines, organising the squads work in Jira and ensuring the team are having fun, are being challenged but are not overloaded.
• You will ensure alignment with dependant squads and organise communication with your stakeholders.
• Build positive, win-win working relationships with 3rd party-services, vendors and partners to secure your product's success.

What we’re looking for

Applying your considerable domain experience (ideally in financial services and/or insurance), strong relationship management skills and generalist product toolkit you will ensure the solution is desirable, viable and feasible, taking ownership for the success of your squad.

• Experience creating new product offerings, ideally in financial services and/or insurance domains.
• Curious mind and ability to think outside of the box, breaking the mould of how things are done today.
• Experience leading a high performing squad, building a product from idea through to implementation and commercial success.
• Extensive product toolkit so you know which tool, process, or framework to use for which job.
• A strong and creative communicator that loves working within a fast paced environment and is comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, influencing and championing change in a business beyond your own squad.
• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).

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

• CAR Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we pride ourselves 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 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 work. 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 CAR Group are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.