Job Description:
The Head of Product - Adjacency Development is a strategic and entrepreneurial role responsible for identifying, defining, and building new adjacent business opportunities in partnership with commercial teams. This role requires a strong understanding of customer needs, market trends, and competitor dynamics to inform decision-making and prioritize product investments.
This leader will manage the end-to-end lifecycle of adjacent opportunities, from scoping and business case creation to establishing and scaling product teams to achieve ambitious business outcomes. The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional partners across technology, design, and commercial to deliver transformative results.
Key Responsibilities:
* Drives Strategic Adjacencies: Works closely with commercial and strategy teams to identify and prioritize adjacent business opportunities, developing business cases that balance customer needs, market potential, and strategic importance for SEEK.
* Builds and Leads Product Teams: Hires and establishes high-performing product teams to support the development and growth of identified adjacencies, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
* Leads Growth of Adjacencies: Focuses on achieving measurable business outcomes for adjacent initiatives, ensuring alignment with SEEK's overarching goals and delivering results in partnership with commercial, technology, and design teams.
* Cross functional execution: Takes a collaborative approach with commercial, technology, and design partners to shape and execute the vision for each initiative.
* Delivers Exceptional User Experiences: Focuses on delivering innovative, world-class products that solve real customer problems and integrate seamlessly into SEEK's ecosystem, leveraging cutting-edge technology and design.
* Understands the Market and Customers: Applies deep knowledge of customer needs, both stated and unstated, as well as industry trends, competitor dynamics, and market opportunities, to inform decision-making and prioritize product investments.
* Collaborates Cross-Functionally: Partners with other SEEK product teams to ensure adjacencies enhance and complement SEEK's core hirer and candidate experiences.
* Champions Bold Product Goals: Establishes bold and inspiring OKRs for adjacent initiatives, driving the product teams to deliver innovative solutions and measurable outcomes.
* Coaches and Develops Talent: Directly leads and builds the capability of a team of talented Product Managers, fostering their growth and development to achieve SEEK's ambitious goals.
* Leverages Data and Metrics: Confidently navigates measures of product performance within SEEK and the external market, identifying actionable insights and driving effective decisions.
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
* A background with experience in B2B and/or B2C product management and a passion for it.
* Considerable experience in online or software product development, including solid understanding of the agile software development lifecycle.
* Customer centric in your approach with a strong capacity to understand market and strategic drivers to set clear goals and define problem statements.
* A good understanding of how to architect product to best fit technical solutions for future extensibility and outcome delivery.
* Proven ability to solve complex and detailed problems using an analytical and data driven approach – strong judgement and decision-making capability.
* A track record of strong commercial thinking and judgement.
* Experience in building product teams in start ups and scaling start ups.
* Ability to maintain and set a product roadmap while managing competing priorities from multiple stakeholders.
* Ability to directly lead a multi-disciplinary team and build team capability.
* Ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
* A high-level strategic thinker able to dip into the detail when necessary.
* Excellent prioritisation skills.
* Well-developed communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and persuade, build and maintain relationships.