Head of Product - Adjacency Development

The Team

The Head of Product is part of a passionate team working collaboratively with the Heads of Product for Hirer and Candidate Product teams Design and Analytics; the Product Director the Product Strategy Managers and other key stakeholders across Strategy Data Science Commercial Engineering and Sales to identify and execute on new initiatives. You will work closely with the Design and Engineering teams to develop effective customerfocused solutions. Your role involves supporting quality design outputs like UX designs research and user testing and ensuring seamless collaboration for efficient delivery.

Initially this role will be an Individual Contributor partnering with Commerical and Design.  The expectation is that this role will hire and build a team as we shape up and resource Adjacent busines opportunities. 

About the Role

The Head of Product Adjacency Development is responsible for identifying defining and building new adjacent business opportunities in partnership with commercial teams. This role requires a strategic and entrepreneurial mindset to explore and grow large adjacent businesses alongside SEEKs core offerings.

As the leader of a highimpact strategic initiative the role will manage the endtoend lifecycle of adjacent opportunities from scoping and business case creation to establishing and scaling product teams to achieve ambitious business outcomes. This role involves close collaboration with crossfunctional partners across technology design and commercial to deliver transformative results.

Key Responsibilities

Specifically the Head of Product:

• Drives Strategic Adjacencies: Works closely with commercial and strategy teams to identify and prioritize adjacent business opportunities developing business cases that balance customer needs market potential and strategic importance for SEEK.
• Builds and Leads Product Teams: Hires and establishes highperforming product teams to support the development and growth of identified adjacencies fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Leads Growth of Adjacencies: Focuses on achieving measurable business outcomes for adjacent initiatives ensuring alignment with SEEKs overarching goals and delivering results in partnership with commercial technology and design teams.
• Cross functional : Takes a collaborative approach with commercial technology and design partners to shape and execute the vision for each initiative.
• Delivers Exceptional User Experiences: Focuses on delivering innovative worldclass products that solve real customer problems and integrate seamlessly into SEEKs ecosystem leveraging cuttingedge technology and design.
• Understands the Market and Customers: Applies deep knowledge of customer needs both stated and unstated as well as industry trends competitor dynamics and market opportunities to inform decisionmaking and prioritize product investments.
• Collaborates CrossFunctionally: Partners with other SEEK product teams to ensure adjacencies enhance and complement SEEKs core hirer and candidate experiences.
• Champions Bold Product Goals: Establishes bold and inspiring OKRs for adjacent initiatives driving the product teams to deliver innovative solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Coaches and Develops Talent: Directly leads and builds the capability of a team of talented Product Managers fostering their growth and development to achieve SEEKs ambitious goals.
• Leverages Data and Metrics: Confidently navigates measures of product performance within SEEK and the external market identifying actionable insights and driving effective decisions.

Qualifications :

Essential Qualifications Skills and Experience

• A background with experience in B2B and/or B2C product management and a passion for it
• Considerable experience in online or software product development including solid understanding of the agile software development lifecycle
• Customer centric in your approach with a strong capacity to understand market and strategic drivers to set clear goals and define problem statements
• A good understanding of how to architect product to best fit technical solutions for future extensibility and outcome delivery.
• Proven ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach strong judgement and decisionmaking capability
• A track record of strong commercial thinking and judgement
• Proven ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach strong judgement & decision making capability
• Experience in building product teams in start ups and scaling start ups.
• Ability to maintain and set a product roadmap while managing competing priorities from multiple stakeholders
• Ability to directly lead a multidisciplinary team and build team capability
• Ability to lead crossfunctional teams to deliver business outcomes
• A highlevel strategic thinker able to dip into the detail when necessary
• Excellent prioritisation skills
• Welldeveloped communication presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and persuade build and maintain relationships

Additional Information :

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.
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Casual dress every day

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 dont 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime