Senior Product Manager

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for REA's Production‑as‑a‑Service platform
• Hybrid work environment
• Permanent role based in Melbourne

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 one of Australia's Best Workplaces four times since 2021 — including third place in 2025 — plus Best Workplace for Women in 2023 and Best Workplace in Technology in 2024 and 2025. These listings are testament to every person who helps make REA a great place to work. 

Where the team fits in 

Launchpad is REA's central platform engineering group, the engine behind our engineering culture. Our mission is to create seamless tech experiences and engaging environments that accelerate innovation across the entire company.

The Senior Product Manager sits across multiple squads within the internal platform experience pillar within the Global Technology Group. We are a platform engineering team that delivers platforms-as-products to REA's tech community that enables them to work and ship products faster. 

What the role is all about 

As a Senior Product Manager for REA's Internal Developer Platform, you will own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for the platform—accelerating developer productivity and platform reliability while simplifying operations and optimising costs.

You will:

• Define and deliver a multi‑year internal developer platform strategy that unifies managed capabilities, golden paths, guardrails, and pre‑wired observability to reduce cognitive load, improve delivery speeds, and embed security and compliance by default
• Continuously research and refine developer journeys to enhance platform usability, operational excellence, and time‑to‑production, incorporating early‑adopter feedback and evolving capabilities to REA‑scale resilience (e.g. improving SLA targets for critical systems)
• Partner across engineering, architecture, security, SRE, FinOps, and other cross‑functional teams to prioritise outcomes, optimise value sequencing, improve reliability and cost efficiency, and support secure network and operational patterns
• Drive migration and adoption from legacy systems to PaaS, ensuring pragmatic enablement, education, and measurable improvements over the status quo
• Define, measure, and communicate clear success metrics for usage, reliability, change throughput, operational availability, and developer value to guide prioritisation and demonstrate impact

Who we're looking for 

• 5+ years in product management (or related) in complex tech environments; experience with internal platforms or developer tooling preferred
• Solid understanding of modern platform engineering and Kubernetes‑based developer platforms (workload abstractions, golden paths, policy‑as‑code, observability)
• Experience working with or around security/compliance guardrails, SRE practices, and platform‑level SLOs for availability and change throughput
• Familiarity with developer experience ecosystems (e.g., Realm for templating and self‑service) and CI/CD workflows for platform‑managed compute
• Excellent communication and influence across engineers, architecture, senior leaders, and cross‑functional partners
• Comfort with FinOps concepts and using platform‑level metrics to drive utilisation improvements and cost outcomes
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams and influence outcomes without direct authority

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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Keen to be part of REA but didn't find a perfect match with this opportunity? Perhaps the timing isn't right? You should join our Talent Neighbourhood  

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