Program Manager - Digital

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead a strategic stream of digital work across the organisation. You will align product priorities, engineering delivery, design activities and business objectives to deliver customer, business and technology outcomes.

You will manage governance, planning and oversight across multiple teams, balancing priorities, dependencies and risk while driving transformation, platform modernisation and product initiatives.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex digital transformation, platform modernisation or large-scale change initiatives.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into practical delivery while balancing business priorities, customer needs, technical constraints, risk and dependencies.
• Deep understanding of digital product development, software delivery and customer experience practices.
• Experience working in product-led organisations and supporting Agile and Lean delivery approaches.
• Exceptional senior stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, including experience facilitating governance and prioritisation forums.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Engineering and Design leaders across multiple teams.
• Strong commercial, governance and delivery management experience across budgets, forecasting, resource planning, program health, executive reporting, benefits realisation and investment accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a strategic stream of digital work against agreed customer, business and technology outcomes.
• Establish effective governance, planning and delivery frameworks that provide visibility, accountability and clear decision-making across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Develop, maintain and execute integrated program plans aligning product priorities, engineering delivery, design activities and business objectives.
• Partner closely with the Group Product Manager, Engineering Manager and Design Lead to align priorities, manage trade-offs and resolve dependencies.
• Facilitate senior stakeholder planning, prioritisation and governance forums.
• Proactively manage program risks, issues, dependencies and delivery constraints, including mitigation, escalation and resolution.
• Provide clear reporting, insights and recommendations to executives and governance forums.
• Manage budgets, forecasting, resource planning and capacity, ensuring investment and delivery decisions align with strategic objectives.
• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple cross-functional teams, creating alignment and strengthening accountability and continuous improvement.
• Define, track and realise customer, business and technology benefits, incorporating business readiness, change impacts and adoption into delivery planning.

Skills

Digital transformation

Program management

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Leadership

Job description

• Location - Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane
• Fixed-term contract for 18 months

• Location - Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane
• Executive level
• Fixed-term contract for 18 months

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Program Manager to lead the successful delivery of a strategic stream of digital work across the ABC.

Working across Product, Engineering, Design and Business, you’ll translate strategic priorities into coordinated delivery, bringing together multiple teams and workstreams while providing the governance, planning and oversight required to deliver complex transformation.

You will build alignment across stakeholders, manage competing priorities and dependencies and create clarity and momentum to achieve strategic outcomes.

The role spans digital transformation, platform modernisation and product initiatives, with accountability for customer, business and technology outcomes rather than simply managing a delivery schedule.

The Job

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a strategic stream of digital work against agreed customer, business and technology outcomes
• Establish effective governance, planning and delivery frameworks that provide visibility, accountability and clear decision-making across multiple teams and workstreams
• Develop, maintain and execute integrated program plans aligning product priorities, engineering delivery, design activities and business objectives
• Partner closely with the Group Product Manager, Engineering Manager and Design Lead to align priorities, manage trade-offs and resolve dependencies
• Facilitate senior stakeholder planning, prioritisation and governance forums
• Proactively manage program risks, issues, dependencies and delivery constraints, including mitigation, escalation and resolution
• Provide clear reporting, insights and recommendations to executives and governance forums
• Manage budgets, forecasting, resource planning and capacity, ensuring investment and delivery decisions align with strategic objectives
• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple cross-functional teams, creating alignment and strengthening accountability and continuous improvement
• Define, track and realise customer, business and technology benefits, incorporating business readiness, change impacts and adoption into delivery planning.

Full position description: Program Manager - Digital (EL1).pdf

About You

You’ll have:

• Significant experience leading complex digital transformation, platform modernisation or large-scale change initiatives
• Proven ability to translate strategy into practical delivery while balancing business priorities, customer needs, technical constraints, risk and dependencies
• Deep understanding of digital product development, software delivery and customer experience practices
• Experience working in product-led organisations and supporting Agile and Lean delivery approaches
• Exceptional senior stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, including experience facilitating governance and prioritisation forums and navigating complex organisational environments
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Engineering and Design leaders across multiple teams
• Strong commercial, governance and delivery management experience across budgets, forecasting, resource planning, program health, executive reporting, benefits realisation and investment accountability within large-scale digital programs
• Highly developed analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capability, including navigating ambiguity and complex trade-offs
• Experience delivering digital products, platforms or transformation within media, streaming, broadcasting or another consumer-facing digital environment would be highly regarded

More Info

In line with our focus on diversity and inclusion, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTQIA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.

Applications Close: 11:55 pm, 9 October 2026