Senior Data & Analytics Manager (Hybrid Working)

About Jora

The Semi-Skilled Jobs Marketplace Product & Delivery Team sits in the Jora business unit, under the Product Group Executive. We operate an independent employment marketplace under various sub-brands across APAC, most notably Jora and Jobstreet Express. While headquartered in Melbourne (Australia), our team is distributed across two main geographic hubs in Australia and Malaysia, and our products service customers on a global scale across more than 35 markets. We pride ourselves on helping millions of people live more fulfilling and productive working lives, and helping organisations succeed.

We endeavour to embody an entrepreneurial spirit and the fluidity of a true online start-up, yet have the security, expertise and advantages of financial backing from the SEEK group. The team is focused on delivering high-value and engaging products & features to employers & jobseekers in semi-skilled segments.

Our Culture

We really value our culture and lean approach to moving quickly, focused on delivering high customer value – and efficiently monetising this value to grow our business, reach and impact. You will work alongside a passionate group of hard-working, fun and caring people, who will support you to have a successful and fulfilling career.
We are an extremely diverse organisation with many different nationalities represented, and we work together as a truly digitally remote agile organisation, with a strong focus on cross-functional collaboration and everyone willing to roll up their sleeves. 

With a customer-centric mantra, we are focused on continually improving and expanding our product offering to drive fantastic customer experiences that fuel rapid business growth, testing the edge and driving innovation for the SEEK Group.

The SEEK Group  

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our unified purpose helps people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helps 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.  

The Team
The Senior Manager at Jora will report to a Jora leadership team member overseeing cross-domain functions. This role collaborates closely with teams across product, design, engineering, marketing, operations, and commercial functions to drive data-driven decision-making. Leading a distributed team of ~8 analysts, engineers, and data scientists across Australia and Malaysia, you will play a key role in shaping Jora’s data and analytics strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the Data & Analytics strategy, driving valuable business outcomes and results
• Lead a distributed team of ~8 direct reports across Australia & Malaysia, ensuring high performance and engagement
• Oversee key data & analytics decisions for the Jora product experience, balancing customer insights with strategic priorities
• Collaborate on OKRs setting and support the execution of relevant data & analytics work
• Lead ongoing measurement, analysis, and recommendations relating to customer & business data
• Ensure a robust understanding of jobseekers and employers needs to drive high-quality decision-making
• Work closely with other Jora leaders to maintain a consistent, cohesive experience across the product domain
• Advocate for consistent ways of working and advance data & analytics strategy across delivery streams
• Hire and develop data engineers, analysts, and scientists as required across APAC

The Role & Key Responsibilities
Senior Data & Analytics Manager (commensurate with experience) is responsible for the strategy & execution of data & analytics across Jora – with a focus on;

People, Team & Culture Leadership

Building a strong team culture, where unblocking business stakeholders with high-quality data & insights, and where team cohesion & outcomes are valued greater than individual contributions. 
Leading & further strengthening an established high-performing team, with continuous coaching on best practise data & analytics, raising the profile of this team in the org.

Data Strategy/Vision & Practice Leadership
Setting an inspiring vision for how the digital analytics function will partner with, support & unblock the broader Jora team with data & insights
Leading the delivery of the data & analytics vision at Jora (design, planning, implementation and optimisation) through strong leadership of the data-engineering & data-science teams to design, plan and implement effective data-tracking, storage, pipelining, enrichment, and BI tools
Being a strong advocate for driving the best customer outcomes, with data-informed decision making within the business

Data Engineering
Taking a hands-on approach to leading our data-engineering team to establish, optimise and scale our data pipelines, ETL processes, data warehouse management, data models, reverse ETL services, ML Dev Ops.

Product Analytics
Taking a hands-on approach to leading our product analytics team to establish & strengthen a close partnership with business stakeholders, enabling seamless data informed/driven decision making with easy self-serve access to accurate and meaningful product data & insights, and also expert guidance & capability.

Data Science
Taking a hands-on approach to leading our data science team to raise awareness and adoption of ML supported product & services, and embedded experimentational frameworks with math & stats support to build confidence in results.

You will work closely with other functional leaders to design, plan, and execute quarterly OKRs – and proactively inspire and motivate your team, and the broader delivery teams 

Essential skills and experience
 

• Data & Analytics Expertise – 5+ years of experience across data engineering, product analytics, and data science, with strong SQL, Python/R skills, statistical analysis, and database optimization knowledge. Experience with tools like Redshift, GA4, Tableau, and Google Ads.

• Leadership & Agile Mindset – 3+ years of team leadership experience, driving analytics practices, managing multiple priorities, and working effectively in agile environments with a test-and-learn approach.

• Technical & Analytical Strength – Ability to handle large, complex datasets, conduct multi-variant experiments, derive statistically significant insights, and contribute to database discussions with engineers.

• Effective Communication & Influence – Strong storytelling and stakeholder management skills, able to translate data into actionable insights, engage diverse teams, and drive business impact through influence.

• B2C & Cloud Experience – Preferably experienced in B2C products and familiar with cloud-based data platforms like AWS and Databricks.

Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.

• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Casual dress – every day

At Jora, 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.

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