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REA Group

Senior Product Manager

REA Group

Senior Product Manager leading data platform capabilities and strategy at REA Group, focusing on data mesh and governance.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeMelbourne • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the product vision and strategy for self‑service data platform capabilities that enable data mesh at REA
  • Lead continuous discovery with data producers, consumers, and platform users to deeply understand needs, constraints, and pain points
  • Identify opportunities to improve usability, scalability, reliability, data quality, data health and adoption of the data platform
  • Drive the end‑to‑end delivery of core data mesh enabling capabilities, from discovery through to launch and iteration
  • Partner closely with data engineers, software engineers, and architects to shape solutions that are technically sound and product‑led
  • Make informed build vs buy recommendations using industry research and internal context
  • Ensure platform capabilities support key data mesh needs
  • Own and maintain a clear, outcome‑driven product roadmap aligned to REA’s data and AI priorities
  • Balance short‑term delivery with long‑term platform scalability and sustainability
  • Partner with the Head of Data, Data Management, Architecture, and Data Business Partners to ensure platform capabilities align to the federated data operating model
  • Work closely with product and technology leaders across the business to ensure platform solutions integrate seamlessly with existing systems
  • Drive successful rollout and adoption of platform capabilities across data domains and with data product owners
  • Define and track success measures such as usage, adoption, reliability, data quality and health indicators, time‑to‑value, and customer satisfaction

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Approximately 5+ years’ experience in Product Management or Product Development, with ownership of complex platforms or technical products
  • Proven experience analysing and synthesise information on the market to determine an appropriate strategic approach whilst taking a whole business perspective, following these strategies through to benefit realisation
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills - able to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels
  • Demonstrated ability to make data‑driven decisions and communicate insights using data and visualisation
  • Proven experience working closely with technical stakeholders
  • Experience building or managing platform products, ideally in data, analytics, or developer‑focused environments
  • Familiarity with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance concepts
  • Strong product discovery skills, with the ability to translate complex user needs into clear product outcomes
  • Comfortable operating in complex, cross‑functional environments
  • Experience building self‑service data platforms or data infrastructure products is highly desirable
  • Exposure to data mesh, data‑as‑a‑product, or federated data models is beneficial
  • Experience designing or delivering data contracts, data quality frameworks, data marketplace or observability capabilities is ideal

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • A hybrid and flexible approach to working
  • Flexible leave options including, birthday leave and purchase additional leave
  • Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
  • Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity
  • Hackdays so you can bring your big ideas to life

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Hard Skills & Tools
Product DevelopmentData AnalysisData VisualizationPlatform ManagementData Infrastructure
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationStorytelling SkillsStakeholder EngagementCross-Functional Collaboration