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Hawksworth Consulting

Product Owner

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-14 Australia Permanent ICT

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About the Company

We're partnering with a leading financial services organisation to recruit a Product Owner / Product Manager for a 12 month FTC based in Brisbane. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a high-impact digital product, leveraging technology, data, and analytics to improve business outcomes and support critical operational decision-making. This role will take end-to-end ownership of a critical digital platform supporting disaster response, operational visibility, and data-driven decision-making. You'll be responsible for driving monthly enhancements and strategic initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to capture and prioritise requirements, manage the product backlog, and define user stories that deliver scalable, customer-focused solutions.

Responsibilities

  • ● Own the product vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with operational priorities and disaster management objectives.
  • ● Leverage AI and advanced analytics to enhance situational awareness, operational insight, and decision support across disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
  • ● Balance short term operational needs with long term platform sustainability and scalability.
  • ● Facilitate discovery workshops and interviews with business stakeholders to identify needs and desired outcomes related to enhancements or new features.
  • ● Manage the end-to-end delivery of initiatives and continuous improvement activities including appropriate oversight, governance and stakeholder management.
  • ● Accountable for ensuring successful delivery and implementation of solutions including appropriate acceptance criteria, testing practices (UAT/PVT) and release day activities.
  • ● Leverage user feedback, usage data, and operational learnings to drive continuous product improvement.
  • ● Promote data led decision making to enhance situational awareness and operational insight.
  • ● Champion improvements that strengthen disaster response capability and operational resilience.
  • ● Own the readiness of onboarding materials, user guidance, and feature launch support to enable effective user adoption.
  • ● 5+ years' experience in product ownership or similar roles delivering digital products, platforms, or complex web applications within enterprise environments.
  • ● Proven experience operating in complex, cross functional delivery landscapes, collaborating with internal technology teams, business leaders, and external vendors.
  • ● Strong ability to engage, influence, and build trust with senior stakeholders across technical and business domains, supported by effective facilitation and negotiation skills.
  • ● Demonstrated capability to translate complex business and operational needs into clear, outcome focused requirements.
  • ● Extensive experience working within Agile and hybrid delivery models, including Scrum, Kanban, and scaled delivery frameworks.
  • ● Ability to plan, organise, prioritise, and manage multiple concurrent initiatives, making sound judgements on priority and time allocation.
  • ● Strong problem solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex situations and break them down into clear, manageable components.
  • ● Proven customer focus, with a commitment to driving customer centric outcomes and measurable business value.
  • ● Change management capability, including recognising the need for change and supporting its impact across teams and the broader business.
  • ● Previous exposure to disaster management, insurance, risk, or geospatial data driven environments is highly regarded.
  • ● Experience working closely with UX/UI teams and supporting customer-focused product design.
  • ● Exposure to React or JavaScript is beneficial (hands-on coding is not required).