Director of Product

We are on the lookout for an ambitious and driven Director of Product to join a growing team.

A Director of Product is essentially the CEO of the product they manage, leading teams of engineers, data scientists, growth hackers, designers (and other roles). They are responsible for every aspect of the product including user research, UX/UI design, engineering, quality, data analytics, marketing, and growth.

About Us:

Fourteen-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and projects posted with more than 85 million users who have posted 25 million jobs. We work with everyone from consumers to NASA in over 2,000 areas as diverse as website development, marketing, copywriting, astrophysics, aerospace engineering and manufacturing.

Freelancer owns Escrow.com, the world’s largest online escrow company with over US$8 billion in transactions secured, powering the sale of jet parts to oil wells. Freelancer also owns Loadshift, a marketplace with more freight on a typical day than the distance from the earth to the moon, with over 650 million kilometres posted since inception.

This won't be your typical cog-in-the-machine type of job. If you're a high achiever with talent, looking for something more than a boring job in corporate, want to work with the best and brightest and don't need to be handheld, this is the job for you.

If you join a mega-cap technology company as the 10,000th hire you might struggle to figure out the impact you are making. If you join a startup, you might get to work on the latest fad, but likely have few mentors to learn from, work on toy problems and never change the world.

At Freelancer you’ll get to work on a highly diverse, global set of internet-scale challenges where you will make a meaningful difference with real responsibility, while rapidly building your skills. We run a meritocracy - we actively promote from within.

You’ll also change lives- our mission is to provide one billion jobs. Not many companies actually make a difference like Freelancer does in providing opportunity and income to people all around the world.

Requirements:

• Experience leading product discovery, creating product vision, and contributing to the overall product strategy & roadmap in support of company wide goals and objectives
• Proven experience managing a high performing team in a software product (preferably web-based)
• Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces - ability to create high quality wireframes and mockups
• Clear and demonstrated ability to grow and market a product
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies, including modern web architecture
• Ability to process and analyse complex data sets, and interpret them to make business decisions (ideally using SQL)
• Experience conducting formal and informal customer interviews, deriving qualitative insights
• Preferably have a technical degree (computer science, engineering, math, science, etc.) or equivalent experience

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.
• A meritocratic culture with the ability to take ownership and fast track your career.
• Weekly Town Halls with the all important Q&A session with the CEO (you really can ask him anything)!
• Friday lunches - We finish each week with a catered lunch. Every Friday we offer a different cuisine from local restaurants.
• Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
• Fun events (we once built a soccer stadium in the office with two tonnes of turf).
• Located at Grosvenor Place - Home of Freelancer HQ, this iconic building and location with harbour views with weekly and complimentary classes, activities, events, promotions, competitions and deals.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better:

• Change lives every day – Everything we do as part of our jobs contribute to improving the lives of our users on a global scale. Our mission is to provide one billion jobs. Not many companies actually make a difference like Freelancer does in providing opportunity and income to people all around the world.
• Fast-track your career - We boast a meritocratic culture, renowned for hiring into senior roles from within and producing many business and product leaders in the technology industry.