Compliance Product Manager

Making a meaningful difference with mission-critical software that empowers communities to thrive. 
  
ReadyTech is more than just a one-trick pony playing in one market with one product, or one customer. We re-imagine, design, develop and deliver technology to solve our customer’s diverse problems – supporting multiple businesses across a variety of markets to be ready for anything.    
  
We’re an ASX-listed company which means we are stable, have a strong track record of sustainable growth and have a significant number of long-term customers.  So, what does this mean for you? It means we can offer you an experience that will push you to be your best, provide career-building challenges, and that will offer you numerous growth opportunities that can’t be found in any other company.  
  
It’s an inclusive environment where there is no place for politics, where we get our heads together to solve the problems that really matter to our customers, and where we always stay focused on our north star – the communities we serve, and society at large. 
  
We’re looking for a Compliance Product Manager to join the ReadyTech Education business. In this role, you will ensure that our student management systems continue to deliver timely industry-leading compliance solutions for our clients – from Vocational Education Training (VET) to Higher Education providers.  
  
As a key member of the product team, you will be a thought leader in Education compliance and our internal subject matter expert on National and State regulatory compliance obligations across all Education sectors.  
  
If you were here last week you might have:  

• Facilitated the execution of the Compliance product roadmap, by collaborating with internal stakeholders and working closely with Design/Engineering to produce intuitive products that are widely adopted by clients.  
• Shared industry insights, developments and knowledge via the REPS committee and product forums that lead to improved product compliance  
• Lead VET Data Streamlining initiative – executing changes to current VET data collection processes and delivering a real-time API data exchange solution  
• Participated in user research, client discovery workshops, gathered requirements and identied opportunities for innovation  
• Anticipated implementation challenges, and consulted relevant stakeholders to identify risks and tradeoffs and justify a path forward  
• Executed on the product roadmap, collaborating with the Engineering team to design and deliver features – and then own their adoption by clients  
• Communicated key decisions, milestones and deliverables, roadblocks or changes to relevant stakeholders 

More about you  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Ability to form strong internal and external relationships and to influence 
• Strong problem-solving ability- turning complex problems into simple, engaging solutions for clients 
• Ability to work and communicate effectively in a team environment 
• Ability to work independently given some scope & direction 
• Ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria and collaborate with the Engineering team to groom the backlog 
• Project management skills – ability to prioritise, set project plans and execute in an agile framework 
• Ensure release processes are followed (e.g., UAT complete, Release notes written, internal stakeholders briefed) 
• Knowledge of: Software Development Life Cycle management, Agile and Scrum methodologies, and Atlassian Jira and Confluence software 
• 2+ years working within a SaaS business 
• Knowledge and experience within the Education sector in a compliance-related role (Vocational Education experience preferred) 

Why you should become a Readytecher:   

• A day off for your birthday- hip hip hooray! 
• Additional 4 days of leave each year 
• ReadyTecher Awards each quarter with the chance to win flights and accommodation to Hamilton Island  
• Hybrid work, with in-house baristas in Australia via the Ready Beans team 
• Access to Sonder- a technology-driven platform supported by safety, medical and mental health experts – available 24/7 
• Paid parental leave 
• Additional paid leave for miscarriage, endometriosis and menopause 
• Volunteer leave 
• Flu vaccinations  
• And plenty of ReadyTech merch drops along the way!  

ReadyTech is committed to seeing things through each other’s eyes. We invest deeply in relationships by offering positivity, fairness and empathy in every interaction and love that everyone is different. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates our diversity of race, beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, age, disability status, marital status and more – so that every single one of us can feel like we belong.  

So, if you are ready for anything, please apply today. Please note that we will send you some testing to complete as part of your application as we have found this helps us to quickly identify potential ReadyTechers!