Product Owner

at  Westpac Group

PRODUCT OWNER

• Permanent full-time role
• Hybrid Working Model – Currently 2 day is the office
• Challenging and Exciting Role

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At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au .
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call 1800 655 592 Option 2.3 or email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au
Please ensure you upload an up-to-date CV and have spoken to your People Leader before submitting your application.
Our people are our highest priority, and we are committed to placing our redeployees in available roles before we review other applicants.

• Support the Product Manager, by executing on the overall product strategy to the extent that the product you own contributes to it. In instances where the Product Manager role does not exist, the Product Owner will represent the voice of the customer.
• Manage the product’s stakeholders - balancing both customers and business needs and able to translate them into features
• Refines and clarifies the benefits as understanding increases through product delivery, effectively driving business case realisation
• Understand the market that the product competes in and ensure that the product maintains a competitive advantage
• Understand the Divisional and Group objectives and strategies
• Ensure that the product adheres to business controls and meets legal and compliance requirements
• Maximise the value of the product, to the customer and to the division
• Understand value from the customers viewpoint (what problem does the product solve for the customer in the context of their lifestyle and financial needs), championing a Customer Centred Design approach
• Provide analytics and anecdotes to the development team so that they understand the customers behaviour and mindset
• Maintain a vision for the product and communicate it to the stakeholders and the development team
• Ensure that it aligns with the overall product strategy
• Ensure that valuable releases are delivered as often as possible, allowing teams to learn early and iterate on the product to ensure it really meets customer’s needs
• Manage the product backlog
• Remove and add items to it (features and user stories) and ensure that they are clearly expressed (including acceptance criteria), refining them when necessary
• Collaborate with the development team in refining the product backlog items and estimating them
• Regularly refine the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritised with a greater focus on the highest priority items
• Use it as a basis for a product roadmap and release plan
• Ensure that it is always visible to the stakeholders and the development team
• Support the development team
• Ensure that they understand the product vision and roadmap
• Ensure that the product backlog items delivered are of the expected quality