Senior Product Manager

Description

Summary: As a Senior PM in the Trade Me team, you will lead the Property portfolio, driving innovation and shaping the strategy for its next phase of growth by creating value and great user experiences. Highlights: 1. Autonomous role with direct impact on customers and business outcomes 2. Lead product strategies with proven customer and commercial results 3. Explore and integrate AI tools to improve decision-making As a Senior PM in the Trade Me team you're responsible for identifying where we can create and add value to our proposition. You will guide the strategy in its next phase of growth. Your focus will be on creating value and great experiences for your users. In this highly autonomous role, you'll have a direct impact on our customers and broader business outcomes. As an experienced product leader, you will take ownership of the Property portfolio - driving innovation, scoping new opportunities, and building out business lines that extend beyond our current offerings. ** Here is what you can expect from this role:** * 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. * You are successfully managing a mature portfolio of products, balancing the optimization of existing assets with the innovation of new business lines. * We have a three month to three year view of the problems we're aiming to tackle and a roadmap to support it that our teams buy into, understand and support. * Strong discovery practices help us deeply understand the customer problems we seek to solve. Problems are validated before we start and investment is understood. * Our engineering and customer facing teams always have the involvement and context they need to understand the problem to solve and why we need to solve it, and you're great at getting them excited about it. * 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. **What you will bring to our team:** * Strategic and commercially driven, with proven experience managing P&L targets and a knack for identifying high-value initiatives that deliver measurable business and revenue growth. * Analytically capable - able to identify patterns, draw insights, and translate findings into clear recommendations. * Customer-centric, with a genuine curiosity to understand and anticipate customer needs. * Resilient and comfortable navigating ambiguity ('the gray'), with the ability to make confident, logical decisions even when data is incomplete. * Experienced in Agile software development frameworks. * An outstanding communicator -An exceptional influencer capable of navigating executive-level conversations, managing up to leadership, and selling the 'why' effectively to cross-functional teams in Marketing, Sales, and Engineering. * Proactively explores and integrates AI tools and automation to improve decision-making, reduce manual effort, and accelerate delivery - while maintaining a learn-it-all mindset toward the evolving technology landscape. * An experienced product professional (5+ years), having led product strategies that have achieved proven customer and commercial results. * Proven experience owning an entire business area or portfolio, rather than managing a single tool, platform, or feature set. * Direct experience with pricing projects, monetization strategies, and complex Go-To Market (GTM) planning. * Able to demonstrate experience across all aspects of product management, including prioritisation, measuring impact, competitor analysis, market research, UX testing, product marketing, strategy & roadmap development, and mentoring **You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:** **#AI & Tech:** We live and breathe AI in our daily tasks. We value curiosity and an open mind towards new tech, offering dedicated AI skilling to help you grow and thrive in a fast-changing landscape.** #Flexibility:** Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week. **#Leave:** We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1. 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 so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why". Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.