Total 27 job vacancies by Nine

After a highly successful Paris Olympics in 2024, the newly created Lead Product Manager role joins the Streaming team at an exciting time to help define and deliver the roadmap that will take our experience forward, as we look to Los Angeles in 2028 and beyond.

The Streaming Services team works on the core API’s that power the user experience on 9Now and 9Radio. As the Lead Product Manager for this team, your role is to take a Product view of the API’s and anticipate, plan, and prioritise services that client applications will require to deliver customer facing features. You will work closely with the other Platform Product Managers and teams responsible for backend services such as Video, Content Management and Identity, often taking the lead to deliver innovative personalised services for our users.  You will also collaborate with your Product Manager peers responsible for Web, Mobile Apps, Connected TV and Radio apps. 

The role is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Product Manager with solid technical skills to gain an end-to-end understanding of streaming platforms and collaborate and learn from some of the best in the business. Together we will deliver a World-Class viewing experience for our users, and make a positive impact on the way millions of Australians view media.

About the Role

As the Lead Product Manager for Streaming Services you will

• Drive the product vision and strategy for 9Now’s API Services.
• Lead cross-platform product initiatives that span multiple teams.
• Mentor and coach Product Managers and Associate Product Managers in the Platform Product team.
• Look for opportunities to build Product competency and culture across both the Streaming team as well as the wider Nine Product team.
• Collaborate with your Product Management peers to ensure their requirements are understood, and the appropriate changes are delivered for them to enhance their Products.
• Functionally lead a squad of Software Engineers through the definition and development of new Product initiatives in the Services backlog.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Lead Product Manager peers to ensure the solutions we deliver match Product objectives.
• Support the “Head of Platform Products, Streaming” in driving the Streaming Platform Products vision and strategy.

Based in the heart of North Sydney, at our brand-new purpose-built creative campus, we have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Creative Studio on a 12-month paternity leave cover. 

The Project Management team is part of Powered Studios, that sits within Powered. Powered is Nine’s Creative Solutions team, helping clients to realise big ideas in advertising across all of Nine’s ecosystem by experiencing the power of Collaboration, Creativity and Confidence. We have experts in content, client experience, strategy, creative, media production and marketing.

Day to day, we support the broadcast, digital, print and audio national agency and direct sales teams in responding to pitch work, responses and then fulfilling deliverables on Sold jobs.
The role is responsible for being the direct contact between sales and the Studios team. Working with varying stakeholders, no one day will be the same. From briefing in designers, booking in resource or working on timelines for articles. You are also responsible for quoting in the pitch stage, then managing budgets on sold work.

Work you’ll contribute to ranges from digital articles, long form, high impact print to cooking videos or social edits. Clients can be from Finance, Tech, Luxury, FMCG - the list goes on.
You take complete ownership over your campaigns, with support from the Head of Project Management.

Day to day you will: 

• Be responsible for monitoring, tracking and communicating project progress
• Be planning and coordinating project actions throughout the project lifecycle
• Manage project risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle
• Be responsible for clear and effective job costings (including initial budget quote and post analysis reconciliation by job) 
• Booking design and development resource
• Arranging and running creative brainstorms with various stakeholders
• Entering jobs, tracking progress, quoting and booking resource within Monday.com

Nine’s Project Delivery Team is responsible for driving the execution of technology-enabled change projects across the Group.  Its purpose is to provide project structure, visibility and robust governance in delivering initiatives within scope, budget and time.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading the successful execution of projects from initiation to completion using appropriate agile and traditional delivery methods. Your expertise will contribute to Nine’s strategic goals by ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.

Day to day you will: 

• Lead and manage a Program of work including multiple project streams with cross-functional project teams, providing guidance, motivation and direction to ensure project outcomes

• Partner with Commercial and Transformation teams to manage the RFP process, process design and business case development for the selection of platform and system integrator 

• Proactively manage project scope, objectives, deliverables, and outcomes ensuring alignment with stakeholders and ensure scope changes are governed and controlled.

• Partner with Commercial and Transformation teams to manage the RFP process, process design and business case development for the selection of platform and system integrator 

• Monitor budgets, and provide accurate financial reporting to stakeholders. Identify cost-saving opportunities and manage budget deviations.

• Proactively identify and assess project risks, develop appropriate mitigation plans in consultation with stakeholders and implement these strategies

• Manage and collaborate with key stakeholders across Technology and the Business, from senior Executives to business SMEs and delivery resources

• Maintain open and transparent communication with stakeholders at all levels, providing regular project status updates, addressing concerns, and fostering positive relationships

• Anticipate and remove barriers along the way to keep the projects on track .

• Initiate, develop and facilitate Program Governance and reporting frameworks including working groups, steering committees, key stakeholder forums and key performance reporting including budget financials and KPI’s

• Ensure workplace health and safety compliance by adhering to Nine’s health and safety policies, guidelines and practices.

The Cloud Operations Team are central to how Nine uses cloud technology, and are the primary point of contact within the Platforms function regarding anything cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud security posture and policies, monitoring and alerting tooling, as well as managing cost controls (FinOps) and vendors. 

You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world
around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear
within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.

You work in partnership with various product teams and practices enabling them to conduct rapid, stable, secure and repeatable deployments on Cloud and Kubernetes at scale.

You are structured and methodical in your process and have demonstrated skills building and delivering support services for 24/7 systems.

Day to Day, you will: 

Enabling your team:

• Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required
• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership:

• Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Always be on the lookout for products, solutions and enhancements which address current or perceived future business problems

Drive high performance:

• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance

The Platform Solutions Team are central to how Nine deploy workloads to the cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud infrastructure to deliver the content that Australia loves.

You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.

You work in partnership with various product teams and practices enabling them to conduct rapid, stable, secure and repeatable deployments on Cloud and Kubernetes at scale.

You are structured and methodical in your process and have demonstrated skills building and delivering support services for 24/7 systems.

Day to Day, you will: 

Enabling your team:

• Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required
• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership:

• Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology for workload management using Kubernetes (especially EKS)
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Always be on the lookout for products, solutions and enhancements which address current or perceived future business problems

Drive high performance:

• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built and off the shelf systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast today and progressively into digital.

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Platform Manager with a strong focus on industry cloud solutions to lead and manage our Salesforce platform initiatives. This role is pivotal in driving digital transformation across the organization, leveraging Salesforce's industry-specific clouds. The ideal candidate will possess a robust technical background, in-depth knowledge of industry cloud offerings, people leadership and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Role responsibilities:

• Architecture owner for the Salesforce platform ensuring designs, security and technical requirements are met in a best practice manner. Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Help develop and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements and new functionality
• Lead and grow a team of engineers, working in ways that align with Nine’s values
• Drive efficiency and effectiveness in the teams change, builds and deployment approaches
• Participate in and, when required, facilitate team ceremonies.
• Feed into the product roadmap, especially by identifying opportunities for technical improvement that will deliver business value via improved reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Overseeing the maintenance and ongoing governance on the platforms 

As a leader, you will:

• Manage team according to a strategic framework of business outcomes and key responsibilities
• Ensure employee engagement via one-on-ones and other opportunities to help manage performance and career progression

We're seeking a Head of BI to lead and inspire our team, driving critical sales insights that shape our business strategy. Your leadership will be key in guiding a talented group of professionals to deliver impactful reporting and innovative solutions.

Day to day will include but won’t  be limited to: 

• Lead and mentor a team of six professionals, fostering skill development and knowledge transfer.
• Generate accurate and timely sales and revenue performance reports.
• Oversee the creation and management of sales budgets, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Track incentives and KPIs, ensuring they are met and reported effectively.
• Collaborate with technology and data teams to develop and implement advanced reporting solutions.
• Manage agency revenue tracking, providing insights into performance and opportunities.
• Establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders and co-author strategies with the data team.
• Present insights and strategies to senior leadership and key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Drive a customer-focused approach to delivering meaningful and usable reporting solutions.
• Ensure adherence to data governance principles, minimising risk across reporting processes.

As the Head of Payroll within our finance team, you will lead and inspire the payroll services team, driving transformation and excellence in payroll operations. Your role will be pivotal in mentoring, training, and developing your team to ensure the precise and timely calculation of employee payments within a complex and dynamic environment.

You will also be responsible for fostering robust internal and external client relationships, collaborating with stakeholders across the Nine Group to deliver exceptional payroll services and support the achievement of strategic business objectives. Your leadership will be key in navigating challenges and enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our payroll function.

Day to day you will:

• Ensure payroll operations are timely, efficient, accurate, and compliant with all legal and regulatory requirements across a large and complex environment.
• Develop and maintain payroll schedules and service levels that focus on business needs and the employee experience. 
• Ensure all correspondence and payroll data is treated in the strictest confidence.
• Ensure all reports and statistics are accurate and completed and distributed within designated deadlines.
• Manage and prioritise escalations with key internal/external stakeholders. 
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and partner with key internal stakeholders such as People and Culture, Finance and Technology to deliver transformation projects.

People leader responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, support and guidance to employees regarding payroll matters.
• Implement innovative and strategic payroll initiatives that align with team goals and improve payroll efficiency.
• Lead the Payroll Services team, fostering an environment that recognises teamwork, strengthens the team and its contribution to the business.
• Manage individual’s performance, development and growth.
• Drive staff training, including exposing the team to various EBAs, agreements, and pay cycles.
• Partner closely with the People and Culture Team to enable a positive and seamless employee experience.

Nine Plus is a national sales team within Nine. The Nine Plus team connect the country’s 40,000 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with:

• Nine Television (9HD, 9Gem, 9Go, 9Life, 9Rush, 9Now)
• Nine Radio (2GB, 3AW, 4BC, 6PR)
• Nine Publishing (The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Sun Herald, Domain, Good Weekend, Sunday Life, Traveller and many more)
• Nine Digital (9news.com.au, nine.com.au, smh.com.au, afr.com.au, caradvice.com.au, 9Honey.com.au and many more

The role of Senior Business Manager-Nine Plus is to work closely with the Group Business Director - with key tasks in achieving revenue targets.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Meet or exceeding your budget each month, quarter and year
• Be committed to over achieving both your individual and the team’s monthly revenue targets
• Represent the Nine Plus brand within the market, having a strong and reputable market presence
• Clear understanding of all of Nine’s wider products spanning Broadcast, Publishing, Radio and Digital
• Present a minimum of 5 weekly pro-active ideas and strategies to generate new business
• Other duties as reasonably required

Job Description

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast..

In your role as a people leader your focus will be removing blockers, breaking down silos, and championing an iterative, DevOps mindset. You are also comfortable working with a variety of technical and non technical stakeholders.
 

Role responsibilities:

• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Help develop and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements and new functionality
• Participate in and, when required, facilitate team ceremonies.
• Feed into the product roadmap, especially by identifying opportunities for technical improvement that will deliver business value via improved reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Focus on team engagement and culture

As a leader, you’ll: 

• Manage team according to a strategic framework of business outcomes and key responsibilities
• Employee engagement via one-on-ones and other opportunities to help manage performance and career progression
• Help progress your team members’ careers by identifying development and growth opportunities

The Engineering Practices department sets and maintains the standards of engineering excellence used by all our teams across our diverse software engineering and technology department of over 400 staff. The department encompasses software architecture, agile practices and ways of working, quality processes, including “shift-left” initiatives and defensive security engineering.

This role manages Practice Leads across four main disciplines of Software Architecture, Agile Delivery, Quality & Security. Each Practice is a center of excellence that drives best practice, consistency in execution and creates a continuous improvement culture across each specialty.

At Nine Technology we strive for People and Engineering excellence in the way we deliver on our projects and platforms. As the Head Of Engineering Practices you’ll be leading the team setting the standards that guide our delivery teams. You will enable our teams to operate effectively, secure, design and deliver systems while continuously improving Engineering Practices.

This role is based out of Nine’s North Sydney Office, with an expectation to be in the office at least 3 days a week. 

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead the software engineering standards function with your previous experience building, designing and developing highly available, high traffic websites & systems.
• Use your DevOps & Cloud experience and communication skills to drive consensus across Nine to continue building our common application delivery platform using Kubernetes in AWS.
• Develop and own Nine Technology standards for Engineering platforms and systems, integrating legacy platforms, current and emerging patterns and systems.
• Create guidelines and procedures for Nine Technology teams to ensure solutions meet agreed and required standards.
• Create and maintain a maturity level framework to provide consistent and structured development helping teams across Nine to continuously improve.
• Use your leadership skills to inspire and empower the four Practice Leads to drive change and improvement across each of their practice disciplines.

As the Senior Product Manager for Mobile Apps, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for mobile apps that deliver value to our audiences and drive business growth. You will work closely with the Head of Audience Product, other senior product managers, and cross-functional teams including product design, engineering and business to define and execute product strategies and roadmaps that meet the needs of our audiences and achieve business objectives. This role requires a deep understanding and expertise in mobile operating systems and devices, as well as the Apple App and Google Play stores and ecosystems. 

Product Strategy and Roadmap:

• Collaborate with the Head of Audience Product, other senior product managers, and cross-functional teams to develop and execute product strategies and roadmaps that align with business objectives and audience needs. 
• Conduct market research, analyse user feedback, and stay informed on industry trends to identify new opportunities and areas for innovation. 
• Prioritise features and enhancements based on business value, technical feasibility, and user feedback.

 Product Development and Execution:

•  Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and post-launch optimization, for our mobile apps on both iOS and Android platforms. 
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including design, engineering, content, marketing, and analytics to ensure the successful delivery of products. 
• Define and track key product metrics to measure the success and impact of products. 
• Analyse data to identify opportunities for product improvements and optimizations. 

Stakeholder Management:

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including editorial teams, sales teams, technology teams, and external partners. 
• Effectively communicate product plans, progress, and results to stakeholders. 
• Collaborate with other senior product managers to ensure that digital products align with overall product strategy

Nine Plus is a national direct sales team within Nine, connecting the country’s 40,000 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with: 

• Nine Television (9HD, 9Gem, 9Go, 9Life, 9Rush, 9Now) 
• Nine Radio (2GB, 3AW, 4BC, 6PR) 
• Nine Publishing (The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Sun Herald, Domain, Good Weekend, Sunday Life, Traveller and many more) 
• Nine Digital (9news.com.au, nine.com.au, smh.com.au, afr.com.au, 9Honey.com.au and many more)

The role of Senior Business Manager - Television, is to work closely with the Director of Sales in managing the existing clientele database, while also identifying new business opportunities in order to achieve monthly revenue targets. 

Our Sales Executives deliver market leading solutions while ensuring great service and results for our customers. Having a strong desire to seek new business opportunities is of significant importance to the company. This is a role for a passionate and experienced Sales Executive who is excited and driven by emerging trends and technologies.

Role Responsibilities 

• Identify opportunities for new business growth 
• Build and maintain effective relationships with independent agencies and direct advertisers
• Have a strong understanding of the Australian media industry and its buying models
• Ability to represent the Nine brand in market through proactive presentations to potential advertisers 
• Managing a pipeline of briefs and proactive ideas to meet and exceed revenue targets
• Demonstrate a positive and professional communication style 
• Lead, manage and guide a direct report in an Account Executive

The 9Optimum Performance Campaign Manager is a crucial role within the Operations Team, providing the foundation for programmatic success for our clients. You are responsible for all aspects of performance campaign implementation, monitoring pacing and campaign reporting.

You will work closely with your Team Lead to produce best-in-class solutions, offer unparalleled service, and deliver against targets. In addition, you will be highly analytic and have acute attention to details enabling you to analyse campaign trends and use audience and insights to formulate strategic recommendations future briefs.

Finally, the 9Optimum Performance Campaign Manager drives assurances in maintaining Brand Safety initiatives by monitoring Third Party partners and internal site lists.

Responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Manage a portfolio of clients, taking responsibility for implementation, troubleshooting and optimisation strategies to help improve campaign pacing and performance
• Provide campaign reporting in a timely and accurate manner
• Consistently achieve desired outcomes for clients across all programmatic products, demonstrating proactivity to find solutions to challenges as they arise
• Use new and innovative capabilities (both internal and 3rd party) to improve operational efficiency and reduce non-value add work
• Ensure 100% accuracy within all systems when managing financial information including, but not limited to, reporting, Booking tools, reconciliations, and forecasts
• Run weekly WIP meetings with key stakeholders to ensure all campaigns are hitting their delivery and performance goals
• Deliver campaigns across the Nine network, as well as trade competitively across premium third-party inventory, ensuring the management of margin
• Create and implement pixels to effectively track user behaviour
• Deliver campaigns across the Nine network, as well as trade competitively across premium third-party inventory, ensuring the management of margin

In your role as Engineering Manager, you’ll be leading the web engineering team responsible for one of our most valuable subscription products, The Australian Financial Review. You’ll play a vital role in helping your team grow their skills professionally while delivering the product & technology roadmap for the authoritative brand on business, finance and investment news in Australia.

Deliver business/audience value

• Partner with key stakeholders to translate business goals and requirements into effective engineering solutions & deliverables 
• Drive the continuous improvement of squad processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership

• Drive adoption of best practice and ensuring engineering decisions align with the project and product engineering strategy
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff

Drive high performance

• Establish and maintain a highly motivated and high performance team culture through one on one feedback, mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Maintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
• Effectively lead people processes including the hiring of new talent