Head of Product

**Company Description**:
**About SEEK**

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility - it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

**Why join us?**

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career - one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

**The Team**

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 SEEK’s core offerings.

As the leader of a high-impact strategic initiative, the role will manage the end-to-end 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 cross-functional 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 high-performing 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 SEEK's overarching goals and delivering results in partnership with commercial, technology, and design teams.
- Cross functional execution: 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, world-class products that solve real customer problems and integrate seamlessly into SEEK's ecosystem, leveraging cutting-edge 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 decision-making and prioritize product investments.
- 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 SEEK's 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