Growth Product Manager

Shape the Future of How the World Works

Imagine orchestrating product growth strategies that reach 80 million users globally. Picture yourself designing experiments that transform how people find work, build businesses, and change their lives - across platforms that have revolutionised the future of work.

This is your chance to join Freelancer (ASX: FLN) and drive growth for category-defining platforms:

Freelancer: Thirteen-time Webby Award winner and the world's largest freelancing marketplace Escrow.com: The trust layer of the internet, safeguarding over US$8 billion in transactions LoadShift: Australia's freight revolution, moving more tonnage than Earth to the moon on weekdays

You'll thrive here if you: Dream in experiments and user journeys. Believe great product growth combines art, science, and relentless iteration. Follow product-leaders at the leading edge of product strategy and design.

Collaborate with brilliant minds across six continents, from Sydney to San Francisco. Our culture celebrates bold ideas, thrives on data-driven decisions, and measures success in impact.

As Growth Product Manager, you will:

Own your product's growth like a CEO, leading cross-functional teams of engineers, designers and growth strategists to accelerate user acquisition, activation, revenue, referral, retention, and resurrection metrics.

Lead product discovery with focus on identifying growth opportunities, creating compelling product vision, and driving the roadmap in support of company-wide growth objectives

Design simple, intuitive user experiences through high-quality wireframes and mockups optimized for conversion, user activation, and retention across the entire user lifecycle

Build and scale growth engines through rigorous experimentation, designing and analyzing A/B tests and other methodologies to drive iterative improvements that deliver measurable impact

Execute across the full growth stack from user research and UX/UI design to engineering features, quality assurance, and collaborating on acquisition strategies across SEO, SEM, paid social, and viral loops

Conduct customer interviews that drive insights, translating qualitative and quantitative signals into growth hypotheses that move the needle on business metrics

Requirements:

Proven experience managing and influencing high-performing teams in software product environments (preferably web-based) to achieve measurable growth outcomes with clear portfolio evidence of successful growth initiatives

Product leadership excellence with a track record of driving product discovery, vision and strategy, resulting in roadmaps that delivered significant user and revenue growth

Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking, design thinking and systems thinking skills to identify top growth opportunities that have the highest potential (and filter out those that don’t)

Data excellence using SQL (and Python) to process complex datasets, derive actionable insights, and make data-driven decisions that accelerate growth

Technical depth with hands-on experience in software/web development, understanding how the modern web works, architecting data structures, and collaborating effectively with engineers

Growth channel fluency with strong understanding of acquisition channels (SEO, SEM, paid social, content marketing, viral loops, referrals), user segmentation, and lifecycle marketing strategies

Experimentation expertise designing, executing, and analyzing A/B tests and other methodologies, with a good grasp of fundamental statistical concepts

Technical or analytical degree (computer science, engineering, math, science, statistics, economics) or equivalent experience with demonstrable results

Exceptional communication skills with ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, articulate complex ideas clearly, respond thoughtfully to constructive feedback, and rally teams around ambitious growth objectives

Bonus Points (Let us know!):

Design proficiency with ability to create high-quality wireframes and mockups optimized for conversion and retention. Demonstrable ability to iteratively improve designs, resulting in simple, intuitive interfaces that users love

Experience gathering requirements and building products in collaboration with large enterprise customers to drive adoption and expansion at scale

Track record working with logistics or operations teams to identify and implement growth efficiencies that compound over time

Proven success implementing and scaling content marketing strategies, SEO improvements, and paid search campaigns that demonstrably grew user bases

Deep expertise with product-led growth (PLG) strategies and tactics, including self-serve onboarding, activation loops, and expansion mechanics

International growth and localisation experience scaling products across diverse markets and cultural contexts

Familiarity with marketplace dynamics, network effects, and two-sided marketplace growth strategies

What's In It For You:

Career Acceleration

True meritocracy: Your impact directly drives your trajectory. We promote from within and celebrate high performers.

Ownership culture: Run your product's growth like it's your business. We reward those who think and act like owners.

Direct CEO access: Weekly Town Halls with unfiltered Q&A. Your ideas reach the top without bureaucracy.

Innovation & Learning

Biannual Hackathons: Two-day innovation sprints where teams ship real solutions, compete for prizes, and see their ideas go live. Past events featured games, competitions, food, and serious prize money.

Cross-functional exposure: Work directly with Engineering, Data Science, Design, and Marketing leaders, building skills that transcend traditional product management.

Internet-scale playground: Ship experiments across 80M users. Few product managers get this breadth of experience and impact.

Lifestyle & Perks

Premium Sydney HQ: Grosvenor Place with harbour views, plus weekly building events, complimentary wellness classes, activities, promotions, and deals.

Friday culture: Catered lunches featuring rotating global cuisines from local restaurants. We finish each week together.

Work hard, play harder: Yes, we have beer taps and a bar with killer views. We also once built a soccer stadium with two tonnes of turf. Because why not?

Fully stocked kitchens: Coffee, snacks, and everything you need to fuel long strategy sessions and growth sprints.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any better:

The Impact You'll Make:

You won't be optimising conversion rates for another SaaS app. You'll be connecting 80 million people to economic opportunity worldwide. Every experiment you run, every feature you ship, every growth loop you unlock directly impacts someone's ability to earn a living, build a business, or change their life trajectory.

Our values aren't just words, they're how we operate:

Change Lives isn't just a value we put on posters. It's what we measure.

Last month alone, our platforms powered commerce across 247 countries, regions, and territories. Your growth initiatives will literally help feed families, fund education, and build futures.

Take Charge: Own your product's growth like a founder. No hand-holding, just ownership and results.

What Does the Data Say?: Every decision backed by numbers, every assumption tested, every hypothesis validated.

We're a Pro-Sports Team: We recruit the best, reward performance, and play to win.

Our mission: Enable one billion jobs globally. This is how we keep score.

Career trajectory that matches your ambition: We promote from within. Our VP of Product started as a grad. Our Head of Support began as a CX agent. We boast a meritocratic culture, renowned for hiring into senior roles from within and producing many business and product leaders in the technology industry. When you deliver results here, your career moves at startup speed with public company resources.

This won't be your typical cog-in-the-machine type of job. You will be exposed to the fast pace of a rapidly growing global technology company. If you're a high achiever with talent, looking for something more than a boring job in corporate, want to work with the best and brightest, don't need to be handheld, and want to be in at ground zero with a company that has a shot at being one of the biggest sites on the Internet, then please join us.