Overview
At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed. By joining us, you’ll be part of a multi-national technology business with a start-up culture that values collaboration and dynamic environments. SEEK aims to connect potential with possibility, and supports career aspirations and our purpose.
We’re a fast-growing, multi-national tech company with strong core values and a culture that emphasises innovation, responsible AI, and impactful work. You’ll have opportunities for career development through workshops, conferences, and courses while working with seasoned experts.
Be part of a large, agile environment where you’ll tackle challenging problems and support millions of people across Asia Pacific.
Job Description
About the role
The Principal Product Manager – Hiring Automation owns a strategically important portfolio focused on establishing and piloting agentic ways of guiding hirers through the hiring process to achieve a higher likelihood of placement. This includes developing and iterating AI-powered tools, orchestration capabilities, and workflows that remove friction, improve conversion, and deliver measurable outcomes for hirers and candidates. You will work closely with Product, Technology, Design, Data Science, and Analytics to lead initiatives within the Hiring Automation portfolio that leverage agentic capabilities and high-context guidance to transform sourcing, selection, and placement.
Responsibilities
- Focus on delivering a world-class user experience that solves real customer problems through cutting-edge technology development, products and services, with emphasis on agentic guidance that improves hirer placement likelihood.
- Deeply understand customer needs through immersion, quantitative and qualitative methodologies to underpin product decisions.
- Innovate, test and evolve the product using AI-powered tools, orchestration capabilities, and workflows.
- Deliver outstanding experiences that meet operational, technological and commercial needs while embedding high-context decision guidance.
- Understand the customer channel inter-relationship with products and services and deliver them effectively.
- Drive key metrics and outcomes, establish bold OKRs, and maximise achievement (e.g., increased interview-to-placement conversion rates) through discovery, development and optimisation.
- Lead and inspire an agile team of product managers, engineers, UX designers and analysts; foster an experimentation mindset.
- Maintain a holistic view of products within SEEK and collaborate with other product teams to ensure a best-in-class hirer and candidate experience.
- Evangelise the ambition and future state of products/platforms with up-to-date roadmaps and outcomes.
- Directly lead, coach and build capability of a team of Product Managers.
- Engage stakeholders across the business to generate momentum behind Hiring Automation.
- Champion the voice of the customer on both sides of the employment marketplace, focusing on automation and guided hiring journeys.
- Navigate product performance measures, articulate drivers of performance, and act on insights.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, particularly in AI and agentic technology for hiring.
Qualifications
Skills and experience
- Extensive experience in B2B and/or B2C product management, ideally in marketplaces or hiring technology, with exposure to automation and guided workflow design.
- Proven track record in developing and delivering innovative, data-driven product solutions from concept to scale, including products with agentic capabilities.
- Strong understanding of AI and emerging agentic technologies, with experience embedding them into customer-facing workflows to improve decision-making and outcomes.
- Experience designing scalable product architecture to support evolving AI and agentic features.
- Exceptional analytical and decision-making skills; ability to simplify complexity and prioritise in fast-changing environments.
- Strong commercial acumen balancing customer needs, business goals and innovation.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in an agile environment; collaboration across product, engineering, design, data science, and analytics.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
- Passion for experimentation, continuous learning, and applying agentic technologies to deliver value.
Additional Information
Perks and benefits
At SEEK we offer:
- Professional development sessions with industry-leading guest speakers
- Flexible working options (office and work-from-home) depending on role
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Prospect to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
- Regular events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia
We value diversity, inclusion and wellbeing. SEEK is a purpose-driven business that welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. If you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please advise us and we will 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.
Job Insights
Salary insights and skills match are available as part of your application profile.
SEEK is a global leader in employment marketplaces, solving real problems for our customers and connecting the right work with the right people. Our platforms are used by approximately 50 million candidates worldwide, with relationships to over 300,000 hirers and exposure to around 600 million people. We are passionate about impacting people’s lives and strive for excellence in all we do.
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📌 Principal Product Manager - Hiring Automation
🏢 SEEK
📍 Melbourne