Principal AI Product Manager - All the Ads

About the role

AI Product Managers at Seek are a specialisation of the Product Manager role – they form the critical connection between Seek’s strategy and customer ambitions, and the possibilities that can be unlocked by AI and data. AI Product Managers work within cross-functional teams with Data Scientists, Engineers and other specialists, who build AI and data-driven products to solve our most important customer and business problems.

All the Ads (ATA) squad has a large and crucial scope to drive the marketplace flywheel by ensuring we have all the job opportunities on the platform. This serves the core candidate need of seeing All the Ads (ATA). The squad is also responsible for some of the most important data assets and responsible for building deep understanding of our hirers and the marketplace.

This is an exciting and ambiguous space that requires strategic and critical thinking that brings together an understanding and appreciation of AI capabilities with the candidate, hirer and marketplace objectives. As the Principal Product Manager, you will play a lead role in defining our product ambition, building and communicating an aligned view of how to solve the problem, and aligning stakeholders to deliver AI driven products. You will be accountable for multiple AI-driven products delivered to partner product and delivery teams across Seek’s marketplaces.

We are willing to consider strong Senior AI Product Managers who demonstrate potential.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Understand strategic priorities that may influence or are dependent on All the Ads (ATA) products.
• Work with the LT, strategy, and the squad to frame and articulate the squad’s strategic direction, ambition and roadmap.
• Ensure the team has visibility of strategic priorities (Seek Group, partners and AIPS)
• Work with the LT, partners, AIPS and the squad to set quarterly OKRs.
• Support the team to frame problems and trade-offs in a structured way that leads to robust decisions.

Partnership Management

• Work with partners and Head of AI Product to frame opportunities leveraging the capabilities of All the Ads (ATA) products
• Work with current and potential product and AIPS partners to understand  business objectives and identify opportunities for collaboration
• Coordinate squad engagement with partner teams to define, build and integrate new products and services
• Manage contracts and ongoing engagement with partner teams

Product Ownership

• Work with partners and the squad to define measures of success for our products and services, track progress and identify opportunities to improve.
• Work with partners, the squad and the Experiments team to coordinate experiments – defining objectives, interpreting results and agreeing implications.

Team facilitation

• Work with the team to establish good team processes.
• Identify and manage dependencies on other AIPS squads or partner teams.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven ability to identify, define and work through ambiguous opportunities supported by clear articulation of hypotheses, and connecting these to questions and workplan.
• Logical and data-driven approach to problem solving and decision-making.
• Ability to understand Seek’s business objectives and strategy, and translate that to different audiences including technical team members.
• Willingness and ability to learn about software engineering and AI, and work with engineers and data scientists to design analytical and technical solutions that align with the strategy and business goals.
• Willingness to be ‘hands on’ with the team – e.g. driving prioritisation, standups; using simple analysis to identify opportunities.

Other Skills and Experience

• Passionate about achieving great outcomes for customers and for Seek.
• Able to form connections with senior and mid-level stakeholders (including strategy, product, commercial excellence and technical team members), backed by strong communication skills.
• Willingness to engage in robust debate/productive conflict.
• Pragmatic – able to make trade-offs to move forward.
• Experience in translating conceptual ideas into tangible tasks, and persevering through to execute through to completion.

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
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia

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 don't 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.