Data Enablement Lead

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SEEK is seeking a Data Enablement Lead in Melbourne, hybrid, to unlock data value by improving discovery, understanding and usage across the organisation. You will translate strategy into execution, partnering with product, engineering and business teams to drive self-serve analytics, trusted data foundations and AI driven use cases with a focus on adoption, usability and informed decision making. The role shapes data discovery tools, metadata frameworks, semantic layers and glossaries, strengthens data ownership and applies data as a product across federated teams, and lifts data literacy. To apply, tailor your CV with measurable outcomes from data enablement at scale, show stakeholder influence without authority, and highlight governance and platform or product mindset.

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 multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges 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 multilingual 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 & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

Join SEEK's Data Enablement function as a Data Enablement Lead. You will unlock the value of SEEK's data by improving how it is discovered, understood, and used across the organisation. Reporting to the Head of Data Enablement, you will translate strategy into execution, working across product, engineering, and business teams to enable self-serve analytics, trusted data foundations, and AI-driven use cases. Your focus: drive adoption, improve data usability, and enable confident decision-making and innovation.

The Role

• Drive execution of SEEK's Data Enablement strategy into measurable initiatives
• Shape solutions that improve data discoverability, usability, and trust
• Design capabilities like data discovery tools, metadata frameworks, semantic layers, and glossaries
• Strengthen data ownership, stewardship, and "data as a product" practices with domain teams
• Identify and prioritise opportunities to improve data health, accessibility, and user experience
• Support adoption of metadata, quality, and lifecycle controls with governance partners
• Drive data literacy by uplifting skills across analyst and product communities
• Lead through influence in a federated model, aligning stakeholders and driving change

Your work enables faster, safer, more effective use of data across SEEK — powering decision-making and next-gen AI.

Qualifications

What we're looking for:

• Experience in data enablement, analytics, or data platforms in complex environments
• Strong understanding of modern data ecosystems, architecture patterns, and semantic layers
• Ability to engage analysts, data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders
• Experience improving data discoverability, metadata, or self-serve analytics at scale
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills without direct authority
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to prioritise by value and drive execution through distributed teams

Nice to have:

• Experience in product-led or platform organisations
• Familiarity with data governance or data risk practices
• Exposure to AI/ML use cases where data foundations are critical
• Experience scaling self-serve data platforms or "data as a product"
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset with passion for improving data use

Additional Information

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days  as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice
• Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)
• Professional development sessions with industry leading guest speakers
• Frequent events including sports days, annual Christmas party, hackathon, and trivia
• Free kick-start breakfast every morning and fresh fruit available all day in our offices
• Casual dress – every day

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.