AI Product Manager

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

Job Description

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. They 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.

The pricing and performance team works at the cross section between Seek’s commercial ambitions, business strategy and AI capability. In this critical role you will support us develop ad performance management and pricing services to optimise how we deliver attention to job ads and how we price our ads. It is an intellectually stimulating area that requires us to manage several competing objectives. This role is an exciting opportunity to work with the commercial, product, strategy and AI teams. Going forward we aim to grow the role of AI in the pricing and performance space and the successful candidate has an exciting opportunity to shape our strategy and deliver new services.

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 commercial, hirer, candidate and marketplace objectives. As a 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 work with the Senior Product Manager in the team and will be accountable for leading multiple AI-driven products delivered to partner product and delivery teams across Seek’s marketplaces. 

We are willing to consider Senior AI Product Managers. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy 

• Understand strategic priorities that may influence or is dependent on ad performance and pricing 

• Work with the team 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 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 

Partners 

• Work with partners (commercial, product and strategy) and the Senior Product Manager in the team to frame opportunities

• 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 the Senior Product Manager and partners to define measures of success for our products and services, track progress and identify opportunities to improve 

• Work with Senior Product Manager 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 

• Act as the Agile ‘product owner’ for the team’s products and services 

• Identify and manage dependencies on other AIPS squads or partner teams 

• Coordinate updates to stakeholders

Qualifications

• 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 

Additional Information

The Team

AI Platform Services is a team dedicated to building global AI driven services to the SEEK Group. Pricing and Performance is one squad within the AI Platform Services team, and consists of ~25 Data Scientists and Engineers. Our team has a mandate to innovate in how we optimise ad performance and pricing and has had recent success significantly uplifting capability in the business. We are a collaborative team and empower each member to take ownership and accountability over their own priority areas.
You will report to the Senior Product Manager – Pricing and Performance. 

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.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.