Product Owner - Recruitment

Summary

Join Employment Hero as a Product Owner and help revolutionize the recruitment industry. You will be responsible for delivering the product vision, managing the backlog, representing customer interests, collaborating with various teams, and managing product squads. This role requires 3+ years of experience in product ownership or management, proven success with agile development, strong specification writing skills, data analysis capabilities, and the ability to challenge the status quo. The ideal candidate will also possess experience in customer research, commercial acumen, and financial modeling. Employment Hero offers remote work flexibility, cutting-edge tools, a supportive team environment, ESOPs, and a wide range of benefits including generous parental leave, subsidized egg freezing, a WFH office expense budget, and excellent learning and development opportunities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in product ownership or management
• Proven success working with development teams using agile (Scrum preferred)
• Able to write well-defined specifications to clearly communicate expected product outcomes
• Track record of being able to critically analyse data samples (both qualitative and quantitative) and produce sensible insights to fuel product initiatives
• Able to challenge expectations and question the status quo on a day-to-day basis
• Hungry, creative, enthusiastic, and data-driven with a diverse skill set
• Experience validating ideas and generating user feedback through different customer research methodologies
• Proven commercial acumen with the ability to build financial models and execute on business drivers

Responsibilities

• Product Vision & Delivery: Responsible for delivering the product vision, driving discovery, and translating vision to delivery and continuous improvement
• Adaptability: Monitor and adjust the product vision and roadmap while adhering to the core vision amidst constraints
• Backlog Management: Strategically prioritise and maintain a user story backlog, balancing business goals, stakeholder expectations, and feasibility
• Customer Representation: Represent customer and business interests in prioritisation and planning, and address customer feedback
• Collaboration: Work with designers, architects, developers, sales, and support teams to ensure feasible, viable, and well-planned product development and rollout
• Team Management: Manage product squads, focusing them on achieving business objectives
• Communication: Clearly convey ideas, issues, and project status to stakeholders and ensure transparent communication of product requirements

Preferred Qualifications

For bonus points (this isn’t a requirement!) - you’ve worked in SaaS on products involving 2-sided marketplaces or within the HR and Recruitment space

Benefits

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes: a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities