About Future Super

At Future Super, we’re making money moves and changing the way super is done. By giving people a chance to invest their life savings in companies that don’t harm the planet, we’re showing the power super has to change the world! 

We are looking for someone to join our purpose-led high-growth scaleup to help build a digital experience worth talking about. As our Head of Product, you’ll be responsible for taking our product function to the next level, setting, owning and executing the product strategy, and leading and mentoring the product team.

We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse lived experience and identities, as the problems we face are complex, and the more diverse our team is, the better our solutions become. We are a team that is all about building a strong workplace culture, that's not only diverse, but competent. We are always learning and doing better together, and holding ourselves to account on our values.

If you are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, a person with a disability, someone from a cultural and linguistically diverse background, mature aged, LGBTQIA+ we would love for you to apply. Please get in touch to learn more about who we are before applying or if you need assistance applying.

You’ll love this job if:

• You find superannuation opaque and frustrating, if you had the chance to revolutionise the industry to be better for people, you would 

• You’re energised by the opportunity to take a scaling product function to the next level

• You enjoy a mix of leadership and rolling up your sleeves for some hands-on work

• The idea of redefining what the digital experience of superannuation feels like gets your heart racing

We’re looking for someone who:

• Believes in Future Super’s mission and has a passion for moving Australia’s money out of fossil-fuels and into renewable energy 

• Thrives in a scale up environment and can bring clarity and focus to the team among competing priorities and evolving needs

• Can draw on their deep product experience to up-level our team’s impact and ways of working

• Is excited by rolling up their sleeves and getting into the detail with the team

• Has a knack for setting inspiring product strategies, getting stakeholders on board with them, and enabling the teams around them to successfully execute

• Has a strong track record of execution and results in product development

• Is strong with numbers, testing frameworks and understanding key points of leverage

As the Head of Product you will:

• Set and own the digital product strategy, including creating an inspiring vision, determining the key metrics, aligning the team with the strategy and being accountable for execution of the strategy

• Lead and mentor the product team, including a small team of product managers and designers and grow the team where necessary

• Product Manage one of our two growth squads, working with the product designer and developers on the squad to progress it's North Star metric

• Enable the use of data, analytics and testing to improve the digital product & member side of the business

• Own member insights & product research, being the go-to person for a deep understanding of our members and how they use our products, as well as market and technical trends

Don’t tick all the boxes? That’s okay, we like thinking outside the box. We value skills, passion and who you are over what you’ve done or where you’ve studied. So if this job resonates with you, we want to hear from you!

Why would you enjoy working at Future Super?

• A purpose-driven organisation, spending your days working on making this world a better place! The more we grow, the bigger the impact we are making on climate change and inequality

• A proud B Corp organisation that cares about how it behaves inside and out

• Heaps of flexibility to fit work into your life (not your life around our work) and the opportunity to work with your manager to define what that looks like for you now and in the future

• AFR’s Best Place to Work 2022 for the banking, superannuation and financial services sector 

• The choice to work from home, from one of our co-working spaces, from anywhere within Australia or even from overseas (for a short period of time)

• Team lunches and company-wide events

• Progressive, people-focused policies and benefits including Menstrual and Menopausal Leave, Mental Health Leave and Gender Affirmation Guidelines and Leave

• We offer employee network groups for people from diverse backgrounds: SuperGenders for cisgender women, trans men and women and  non-binary folks; SuperGlobal for culturally diverse folks; and SuperPride for LGBTQIA+ folks. The groups are a safe, supportive space for people to share experiences and ideas  

• 14 weeks’ paid parental leave for all genders and a generous parental superannuation package, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), formal training and development with continuous improvement opportunities, and membership to Bicycle NSW (or your State or Territory’s equivalent) as part of our sustainable transport policy

• Future Super is an equal opportunity employer – we provide flexible working hours, the option to work from home and a laptop you can use to work remotely (this used to be a more differentiating dot-point, but it’s still true!)

Applying for a job at Future Super

• The application will require answering short questions so give yourself time to complete it. Once started, you can save and return to your application before submitting. We know job hunting can be time consuming, we don’t expect for you to spend more than 40 minutes on your application

• We really want you to work for us, not AI, so please make sure your answers are your own

• We use Applied as our de-identified recruitment platform, helping us reduce the risk of unconscious bias in our hiring process. If you are curious to know more about how it works, check out this blog post

• You’ll hear from us about a week or two after the closing date. If your application is successful, you’ll be invited to a 20 minute phone chat with someone from our People and Culture team. If your application missed out this time, we won’t ghost you, we’ll let you know and we’ll provide you with some feedback which you can check-out if you want

• Following the good old telephone call, should your application be successful again, you will be invited to a couple of interviews by Zoom