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About the Role

Contribute to shaping REA’s self-service data platform, influencing how data is used across the business and working for a leading property brand impacting thousands of users through a key data platform.

Responsibilities

• 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

• 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.

Location

• Richmond
• Sydney

Work Type

• Permanent
• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• 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
• Volunteering leave
• Community grants
• Matched payroll giving
• Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity
• Hackdays

About the Company

• With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property.
• Our people are the key to our success.
• At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care.
• We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact.
• We’re proud to have been named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.
• We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking.
• If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.