Product Manager

⁠⁠⁠The National Skills Commission (NSC) provides expert advice and national leadership on Australia’s labour market and current, emerging and future workforce skills needs, and Australia’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system.

We’re looking for a highly-skilled, goal-oriented and hands-on product manager with good technical and people skills to join the NSC’s Digital team. The Team was created in early 2021 with a vision to transform data into delightful, user-friendly digital products that provide skills, training and labour market insights for our audiences. Team members works across the Commission with economists, data scientists, policy analysts, researchers and technical experts.

The team has established a cross-functional group with a strong supportive culture and outward focus. Team values include being curious, creative and collaborative, empathetic and accountable. We like to have fun while we get things done.

Digital products include interactive visualisations such as data maps and charts, dashboards and web applications. Through connecting data sources across jobs, higher education, VET and skills taxonomies, the Digital team brings to light insights that will help identify economic trends, career and training opportunities, as well as the skills needed to find roles in current and emerging industries.

The Product Manager’s primary role will be to manage the development of digital products to help people understand more about how skills, training and jobs fit with each other in a growing economy.

You’ll be taking a leading role through-out the product lifecycle – from concept development to building the prototype, testing, launch, evaluation and analytics and iteration. Be involved in the product planning, management and execution of digital products around labour market, skills, VET and higher education data. You’ll also help articulate and communicate the product vision to a range of stakeholders, including senior leaders.

Responsibilities include:

• Help scope and build rapid prototypes, experiment with new product ideas and ideate
• Gather requirements for product, understand and define product vision.
• Map the product to NSC’s strategic objectives and broader product strategy.
• Understand user needs and prioritise product features and capabilities.
• Manage product development process, review output and monitor and evaluate progress
• Use Agile tools for managing workflows
• Stay across best practice in digital product development and management

The Successful candidate:

• Will have led the creation and delivery of high impact digital products that have strong appeal to audiences
• Be able to think deeply through solving hard problems and build simple, delightful new product experiences
• Will be both hands-on and see the bigger strategic picture - Understand how the product aligns with the overall product strategy, broader organisation’s objectives and team vision
• Enjoy working with and making sense of data bringing complex information to life in a simpler, visually interesting and easy to understand way
• Enjoys working in a collaborative, high-performing team and be willing to share knowledge and expertise
• Enjoy communicating the vision and keep others engaged and true to the product roadmap
Experience you'll have:
• Minimum of 4-5 years of product management experience, building digital products and or applications
• Experience growing products through experimenting and prototyping
• A strong communicator - can speak the language of development, data, engineering and design
• Detailed knowledge of creative process and technical development of products
• Strong technical and UX understanding
• Good with data (qualitative and quantitative or both). Enjoys transforming data into new insights and user-friendly products
• Demonstrated background of working with cross-functional teams across the organisation and achieving wins for multiple stakeholders