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Company Description
About SEEK
At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.
By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.
Why join us?
Be part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.
We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.
As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.
Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.
Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.
Job Description
The Team
Jora is an employment marketplace business, headquartered in Melbourne and operating on a global scale. As a fast-moving scale-up within the SEEK Group, Jora has a warm & unique close-knit family subculture within SEEK, comprising a diverse group of high-performing individuals that share a common desire to make a real difference, on a global scale.
Jora aggregates job opportunities from thousands of job sites, offering jobseekers the largest source of real-time job listings, while also building strong direct relationships with employers.
With a customer-first mentality, Jora continuously optimises, scales, and innovates to drive exceptional user experiences and rapid business growth. We combine agility and experimentation, testing the edge and driving innovation with the resources and impact of SEEK.
Our multi-functional, remote-friendly team operates across Melbourne, Sydney, and Kuala Lumpur, bringing together high-performing individuals from over 20 nationalities in a high-trust, high-ownership environment.
About the role
We are looking for a high-impact, autonomous UX leader to shape Jora’s user experience strategy, drive product innovation, and implement at pace.
As one of our most senior UX designers on the team, you will:
- Define and drive UX strategy, ensuring user needs and business priorities are aligned and actionable.
- Work autonomously—owning your priorities, self-managing your workload, and making critical UX decisions with confidence.
- Balance vision, research, and execution—knowing when to drive innovation and when to focus on fast, high-quality delivery.
- Deliver at pace, ensuring UX is not a bottleneck for product development, even on epic-scale initiatives.
- Elevate the UX team, mentoring and guiding mid-level designers to work more effectively and independently.
- Influence product and engineering teams, ensuring UX is a strategic partner in shaping Jora’s roadmap and execution.
This role is perfect for a high-calibre, seasoned UX professional ready to operate at a Senior level with a clear growth path to leadership.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Influence
- Lead UX efforts for high-impact initiatives, ensuring designs are scalable, accessible, and business-aligned.
- Own and evolve UX strategy, using data, research, and experimentation to inform product direction.
- Advocate for user-centred decision-making, while ensuring UX contributes to business goals and product outcomes.
Execution at Speed & Scale
- Deliver fast—working efficiently in a high-velocity, high-stakes environment without sacrificing quality.
- Manage UX for epic deliveries, balancing research, iteration, and execution in parallel.
- Work across multiple platforms (web, mobile, and new technologies) with a deep understanding of responsive, scalable design.
Autonomy & Team Uplift
- Operate independently, identifying high-value UX opportunities and acting on them without waiting for direction.
- Mentor and support mid-level designers, helping them become more autonomous and capable.
- Refine UX processes, ensuring the team operates at peak efficiency and quality
Qualifications
Essential Skills and Experience
UX Leadership & Business Alignment
- Senior-level UX expertise, with a track record of driving strategy, execution, and multi-functional collaboration.
- Ability to align UX with business priorities
- Experience working in high-growth, fast-moving environments, where UX must move at the speed of business needs.
Autonomy & Execution
- Works independently, self-managing priorities and proactively identifying high-value design opportunities.
- Able to deliver high-quality UX at pace, handling epic-scale product deliveries without slowing down execution.
- Strong decision-making skills, able to balance quick iterations with thoughtful, research-backed design.
Influence & multi-functional Collaboration
- Influences and collaborates effectively, ensuring UX is a key driver of product success.
- Comfortable facilitating workshops, discussions, and UX alignment with product, engineering, and business teams.
- Is able to challenge when required, standing up for design choices while maintaining a practical and thoughtful approach.
Technical UX Expertise
- Expert in UI/UX design, interaction design, accessibility, and usability best practices.
- Experience designing for web and mobile at scale, ensuring consistency and reusability.
- Strong grasp of UX research methodologies, using insights to drive improvements.
Additional Information
Perks and benefits
At SEEK we offer:
- Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
- A commitment to operating sustainably, a certified carbon neutral business operation, with the target of 100% renewable energy by 2025, and net zero by 2030
- Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia
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 with 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.
