SEEK

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

Job Description

As SEEK evolves its product and commercial ecosystem across APAC, this role plays a pivotal part in shaping the technology foundations of SEEK’s marketplace. You’ll shape SEEK’s medium term technology strategies and roadmaps, working closely with a wide range of strategy, product, architecture & technology leaders.

What you’ll be doing

• Shape SEEK’s medium-term architecture for SEEK’s core marketplace experiences — candidate discovery, hirer engagement, and commercial enablement
• Lead our “future-back” architecture planning engagements to shape tech investment direction in partnership with senior leaders
• Surface and explore complex cross-organisational challenges, connecting the dots across strategy, product, sales, architecture and engineering teams
• Provide advice on ambiguous and complex high-impact ideas and opportunities to senior leaders
• Develop concise effective models that surface common understanding of key challenges, implications and future direction
• Develop blueprints and roadmaps that support product & commercial planning, sequencing and delivery enablement

The opportunity

Join SEEK’s central Architecture team in a role that blends strategy, leadership and architecture excellence. You’ll shape the future of SEEK’s core marketplace—guiding investment, enabling delivery, and helping to realise our purpose of helping people live more fulfilling working lives.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in architecture leadership roles with enterprise-wide impact
• Strong experience with technology strategy, blueprint development & roadmap planning across complex landscapes,
• Ability to connect and integrated product, commercial and platform strategies
• Executive stakeholder engagement with effective engagement of diverse product and commercial leaders
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate business needs into tech direction
• Collaborative, thoughtful and pragmatic – with a bias for simplicity and action

Additional Information

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Free income protection insurance

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.