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About this episode

This episode explores the role of technical product managers and how SEEK builds platform products.

Ever wondered what a technical product manager actually does – and why every modern tech org seems to want one? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Will is joined by Leon Belobrov and Alex Stewart-James to unpack how SEEK builds platform products that power everything from candidate apps to internal tooling – and what it means to be a PM for APIs instead of UIs. This episode's special guests: Leon Belobrov (SEEK Principal Product Manager, Platform) and Alex Stewart-James (SEEK Snr Technical Product Manager) They break down what makes TPMs a bit of a “unicorn role” – blending deep product thinking with enough technical context to serve engineers as their primary customers – and why internal platforms, APIs and deployment pipelines are becoming just as important as customer-facing apps. You’ll hear how SEEK uses jobs-to-be-done research with engineers, metrics like time-to-10th PR, and platform reliability/security KPIs to prioritise what gets built – and what gets cut. In this episode you’ll learn: • The real difference between a “regular” PM and a TPM – including why serving engineers, focusing on APIs and reusable capabilities, and obsessing over platform reliability changes how you…

People in this episode

Host: Will

Guests: Leon Belobrov, Alex Stewart-James

Topics covered

• technical product management
• platform products
• APIs
• internal tooling
• jobs-to-be-done research
• product prioritization

Keywords

• technical product manager
• SEEK
• APIs
• platform reliability
• jobs-to-be-done
• product management
• engineering needs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SEEK, SEEK Principal Product Manager, SEEK Snr Technical Product Manager

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