Senior Product Manager

Company Description

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we’re all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

Our Product Team work on the strategy and roadmaps and the lifecycle drive engagement and execution of new products with customer experience always top of mind. 

This is your opportunity to work within a small, high-performing team that is leading the vision and roadmap for carsales’ media products which includes native ads, video, display, and rich media.

We have an ambitious and exciting five-year vision, with an actionable plan in place to revolutionize the way we deliver value to our customers. As a key part of this transformation to elevate carsales’ overall proposition for media customers through the products themselves but also how we take them to market.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it? 

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle – Office, Hybrid or Anywhere. 

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with.
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Share product management expertise to be the go-to subject matter expert across customer, market, business and data insights
• Develop solutions that deliver value for customers and our business across all verticals in the carsales group (auto and non-auto) and which will scale into our international markets delivering 50M revenue per annum.
• Collaborate with partners to drive growth by identifying, pitching and delivering big ticket new product initiatives that solve problems for our media customers
• Work within a specialist media product team comprised of Product Managers, Engineers and AdTech specialists
• Own OKRs, vision, roadmap, discovery and delivery for media products in collaboration with the squad and key stakeholders

Qualifications

What are we looking for? 

• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously)
• Demonstrate understanding and expertise in delivering valuable products, positively influencing people, delivering customer and commercial outcomes.
• Product management – expertise in all aspects of your craft from discovery to delivery and in agile ways of working with commercially-driven empowered product teams
• The ability to develop and maintain a growth mindset, coupled with the skill to share and demonstrate examples of innovative ideas and creative approaches in the workplace.
• Communication and presentation skills to deliver growth by identifying, pitching and delivering big ticket new product initiatives.

Additional Information

A few other things we want to let you know about… 

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process – if you want to know more just ask.
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.

So come and join our team – because every role is a big role in our plans to go big. 

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