AI Enablement Product Owner | Flexible Work & Growth

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mortgage rates

Flexible work

Learning & development

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Westpac’s DDAI team seeks a Product Owner, AI Enablement, to lead discovery and shape AI and automation opportunities into clear outcomes. You’ll prioritise and sequence work based on value, feasibility, and risk, influencing delivery across complex environments.

Working with engineering, delivery and risk teams, you’ll align stakeholders around outcomes, manage dependencies, and maintain momentum in ambiguity while embracing AI and digital tooling to deliver customer-focused banking solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong product ownership experience, ideally with experience taking AI products into production.
• Strong command of agile and scrum practices
• Experience owning squad outcomes and backlogs in complex business and technology environments
• Ability to shape AI and automation opportunities into clear outcomes, prioritised backlog items and acceptance criteria
• Strong prioritisation and trade-off skills, balancing value, technical feasibility, effort and risk
• Strong stakeholder alignment and management skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities
• Confidence mapping and managing complex dependencies across business, technology and delivery
• Confidence operating in ambiguity, creating clarity, making decisions and maintaining delivery momentum
• Practical experience with, and curiosity about, AI, automation and digital tools

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and shape AI/automation opportunities into well-defined outcomes.
• Prioritise backlog items balancing value, feasibility, effort and risk.
• Align stakeholders and manage dependencies across business and technology environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, delivery and risk teams to keep momentum and delivery criteria on track.

Skills

Product ownership

AI product knowledge

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Prioritisation

Dependency mapping

Decision making under ambiguity

AI & automation curiosity

Job description

Westpac’s DDAI team seeks a Product Owner, AI Enablement, to lead discovery and shape AI and automation opportunities into clear outcomes. You’ll prioritise and sequence work based on value, feasibility, and risk, influencing delivery across complex environments.

Working with engineering, delivery and risk teams, you’ll align stakeholders around outcomes, manage dependencies, and maintain momentum in ambiguity while embracing AI and digital tooling to deliver customer-focused banking solutions.