Product Manager - Senior

Trade Me is one of New Zealand's most popular websites with over four million members and more than 650,000 Kiwis visiting our site every day.

We are seeking two highly motivated Senior Product Managers to join our Marketplace and Property B2B teams. The ideal candidates will be customer-centric individuals with a proven track record in product leadership and commercial acumen. They will have excellent communication and influencing skills, and be able to inspire and lead a cross-functional team to deliver outstanding results.

This strategic role will need to help customers advertising property. Working closely together with your engineering, design, sales and marketing teams, you’ll identify opportunities and take solutions to market that align with our company and Property strategy.

Your focus will be on leading the product strategy and long term roadmap for our buyer and casual sellers across our Marketplace. This is a highly autonomous role with a high impact for our customers and business outcomes.

Please let us know in your cover letter or CV if you have a preference for either Property or Marketplace or both.

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why: #Flexible

Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.

Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.

• We're making meaningful headway into solving our customers' problems through improvements and innovations to our product offering, and we're achieving our desired customer and commercial outcomes.
• We have a 1 -3 year view of the problems we’re aiming to tackle and an outcome based roadmap to support it that our teams buy into.
• Strong discovery practices help us deeply understand the customer challenges we seek to solve. Problems are validated before we start building.
• Our teams are highly engaged with the ongoing customer and business value we're looking to deliver, and we're great at experimenting to quickly learn how to deliver the most value.
• We have transparent measurements of success that focus our efforts on outcomes over outputs, and help align our execution efforts with our long term strategic goals.
• Your stakeholders are involved and well informed with the problem you are trying to solve.
• We ruthlessly prioritise. We only work on things that provide value, we know when to stop iterating on an idea.
• You're creating and fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

• An experienced product professional (5+ years), having led product strategies that have achieved proven customer and commercial results.
• Experienced at building & creating digital products that New Zealanders love.
• Able to demonstrate experience across all aspects of product management, including prioritisation, measuring impact, competitor analysis, market research, UX testing, product marketing and strategy & roadmap development.
• A good strategist, creative thinker and commercially astute. You'll have a good understanding of what works online, and be able to use sound judgement to assess the value of a diverse range of initiatives.
• Commercially savvy, able to assess performance vs expectations.
• Adept in analytical capabilities, ability to identify patterns and convert to recommendations.
• Empathetic to customer needs and consistently seek opportunities to meet and understand our customers better
• Experienced in the Agile software development framework.
• Energetic, driven and enthusiastic for excellent results and have a genuine desire to help engage and motivate other cross-functional teams.
• An outstanding communicator - able to explain ideas simply & clearly, listen carefully to others, and proactively improve team communication. Confident in communicating to stakeholders and consumers.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.