Senior AI Product Manager - Candidate Quality

About the role

As a Senior AI Product Manager in SEEK's 'Candidate Quality' squad, you'll bridge strategy and execution by translating business needs into AI-powered solutions that connect candidates with hirers across our global marketplace. You'll work within a cross-functional team of ~20 Data Scientists, AI Engineers and AI Product Managers, reporting to the Principal AI Product Manager, to build products that identify high-quality candidate matches and optimize our two-sided marketplace. Success in this role means delivering measurable improvements in candidate-job matching while driving strategic product vision and fostering strong stakeholder relationships across Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of customer needs and market trends to identify strategic priorities and opportunities for AI-driven candidate quality improvements.
• Collaborate with squad leaders to define medium-term product roadmaps, balancing innovation with short-term business priorities and quarterly OKRs.
• Partner with business stakeholders to frame opportunities, coordinate product integration, and manage ongoing engagement across SEEK.
• Drive product ownership by monitoring performance metrics, coordinating experiments, and ensuring accountability for product outcomes across the team.
• Translate complex AI concepts to non-technical partners while communicating business objectives to technical team members.
• Facilitate team processes and culture to enable fast, effective decision-making and mentor other team members.
• Work with Data Scientists and AI Engineers to design and deploy AI services that solve critical customer and business problems.

Skills and experience

• 5+ years of Product Management or Strategy experience with proven ability to translate conceptual ideas into executable plans and deliver results through execution challenges.
• Strong analytical and data-driven problem-solving skills, with experience identifying and defining ambiguous opportunities supported by clear hypotheses and workplans.
• Exceptional communication abilities to engage senior stakeholders and translate between technical and non-technical teams, including strategy, product, and commercial excellence functions.
• Technical curiosity and willingness to learn about software engineering and AI to work effectively with engineers and data scientists in solution design.
• Experience building deep understanding of complex problem domains and inspiring technical teams through collaborative solution development.
• Pragmatic decision-making approach with ability to make trade-offs, engage in productive conflict, and apply ethical AI principles in problem-solving.

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
• 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
• Casual dress every day

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.