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 create #1 digital marketplaces for vehicles around the world, we transform how people buy and sell across the globe.

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.

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

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.
• 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 careg

What you’ll do

As the Senior Product Manager you will support the discovery of new opportunities for the group and, leveraging your strategic skillset, quickly iterate to validate product market fit. Your commercial mindset will ensure you are able to recognise opportunities to improve the experience for our customers while delivering value to the business. Each day will be different but you will spend your time: 

• Leading the discovery of new business opportunities. 

• Rapidly validating hypotheses through experiments, tests or pilots with users. 

• Expertly interpreting user and market data and drawing clear actionable insights. 

• Managing dependencies and ensuring alignment with dependant squads. 

• Building positive, win-win working relationships with 3rd party-services, vendors and partners to execute your plans. 

• Defining and communicating compelling product visions and product strategies to pitch to our most senior stakeholders. 

What we’re looking for

We're looking for an experienced hands-on product leader with a track record of taking an idea and turning it into reality. You thrive in ambiguity, love solving hard problems, and are comfortable using data to validate your gut feel. Attributes that we are looking for are: 

• Experience building products from scratch.

• A curious mind and the ability to think outside of the box, breaking the mould of how things are done today. 

• Extensive product toolkit so you know which tool, process, or framework to use for which job. 

• A strong and clear communicator that thrives in a fast paced environment and is comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change. 

• Demonstrated success collaborating with cross-functional teams, influencing and championing change in a business beyond your own squad. 

• Experience working in a start up, incubator or internal innovation team.  

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.