Product Owner, Data & AI — Flexible Work & Growth

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

Benefits offered by this job

Special banking product discounts

Flexible work arrangements and leave (

Leave options: Culture, Lifestyle and,

Learning and development opportunities

Community volunteering initiatives

Job summary

Westpac is seeking a Product Owner in Shared Data and AI within Digital to own squad-level outcomes and the product backlog for data or transaction capabilities. You will translate customer and business needs into clear priorities, use evidence to guide focus, and work with engineering and risk specialists to deliver value.

Hybrid roles with flexible locations across Australia. You will lead discovery, prioritisation and value measurement, ensuring risk and regulatory obligations are integrated

Qualifications

• Proven Product Owner or product management experience with tech-enabled products.
• Backlog ownership in Agile delivery and translating needs into outcomes.
• Strong product judgement with evidence-based trade-offs.
• Experience leading discovery and clarifying ambiguous problems.
• Ability to establish and use OKRs and product measures.
• Influence stakeholders and align perspectives around outcomes.
• Able to work with engineering, architecture, data, delivery, operations and risk.
• Commitment to inclusive, accessible, responsible product practices.
• Experience in at least one area: Customer Master or Payments & Transactions.
• Experience in financial services or a regulated enterprise.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence; strong product analytics awareness.
• Understanding privacy, security, accessibility and regulatory considerations.
• We value transferable experience and different pathways into product ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own squad-level outcomes and connect priorities to broader direction.
• Translate strategy and needs into measurable outcomes, roadmaps and backlog.
• Lead discovery for complex problems and test assumptions with evidence.
• Make prioritisation and trade-off decisions within guardrails balancing value and risk.
• Maintain a healthy backlog with epics, features and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Define and track OKRs and benefits to demonstrate value.
• Accept or reject delivered work against agreed outcomes and criteria.
• Engage stakeholders to resolve ambiguity and remove blockers.
• Identify and manage dependencies with adjacent squads and escalate risks.
• Integrate risk, privacy, security, accessibility and regulatory obligations into product decisions.
• Lead the what and why; engineering determines how.
• Use data, AI and automation to improve discovery and decision-making workflows.

Skills

Product Owner

Agile backlog

Data/AI product

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Westpac is seeking a Product Owner in Shared Data and AI within Digital to own squad-level outcomes and the product backlog for data or transaction capabilities. You will translate customer and business needs into clear priorities, use evidence to guide focus, and work with engineering and risk specialists to deliver value.

Hybrid roles with flexible locations across Australia. You will lead discovery, prioritisation and value measurement, ensuring risk and regulatory obligations are integrated