Senior Product Owner

Job Description

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Senior Product Owner.

This role will play a crucial part of the UNITE team. UNITE is our business-led, tech-enabled transformation, and a key priority for the Group. UNITE is about delivering 'one best way' to make our processes, systems and tech simpler so we can deliver a better experience for our customers and make things easier for our people.

As a Senior Product Owner for Cash and Transactional Banking, the role will be directly responsible for delivering to product strategies, outcomes and priorities under Westpac’s Unite program including end-to-end product and process transition and supporting our future state readiness.

• Location: Sydney-based role
• On-site Requirement: 3-4 days in the office per week
• Why On-site? This is a highly collaborative position involving regular face-to-face workshops and close team interaction, making in-office presence essential
  
  

What’s the role?

• Partnering with the Service Owner to shape and execute the CTB migration roadmap
• Leading product backlog prioritisation and refinement across transition workstreams
• Ensuring product and process simplification initiatives are embedded in delivery plans.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure readiness for customer and product migration
• Monitoring delivery progress, identifying risks, and escalating blockers to leadership
• Supporting the rationalisation of legacy products and alignment to target platforms
• Identifying and managing risks and controls for the changes being implemented
  
  

What do I need?

We’re seeking a seasoned Product Owner or Product Manager with a strong background in financial services and a passion for delivering customer-centric solutions. To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:

• 5+ years’ experience in Product Ownership and/or Product Management within the financial services industry
• Proven experience in large-scale customer and account migrations
• Extensive experience in large-scale customer and account migrations
• Essential experience in transaction, savings, and payment product suites
• SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner certification
• Extensive experience with executive level stakeholders
• A strong track record of supporting successful project delivery
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum practices
  
  

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives
  
  

Create your future today

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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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