Technical Product Owner

At Qantas, we represent Australia to the world. Our diverse country is known for its unique spirit, mateship, and a can-do attitude. Together we’re strong and resilient, and we work hard to make sure we’re always at our best.

Technology is a big part of how we continue to pioneer our way forward. With eyes on the future, our IT team harness technology on a global scale and tailor local solutions for each of our ports. Together we’ll show you it’s possible to make an impact, and to never underestimate what you’re capable of achieving. 

The Technical Product Owner – Regionals is a leader with a customer-centric mentality, responsible for business partnering with senior leaders and technology teams to drive strategy and implement solutions within areas of IT and the Engineering and Maintenance businesses across the Qantas Group.

The Technical Product Owner is accountable, through their squads, for the delivery of strategies, features, enhancements, projects and initiatives. They are also responsible for developing a team culture of continuous improvement and innovation across both direct and indirect reporting lines.

You will guide and mentor cross-functional squads and vendors to ensure features are delivered to commitments, and the products meet their service levels and are secure and resilient by design. The role works closely with various business owners to provide a single point of accountability across Plan, Build and Run IT functions for designated products and their underlying technology sub-systems.

What you will do:

• Develop and deliver product strategy and roadmap, in collaboration with stakeholders, through understanding of business economic and revenue drivers and strategies, research and analysis of product performance and market data and of the competitive, compliance, regulatory and general industry landscape.
• Vendor management including financial, contractual and service obligations (e.g. Service Level Management).
• Product Planning and facilitate planning prioritisation of roadmaps and delivery sequence to meet overall product roadmap.
• Provide insights to inform economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams.
• Manage quality of service and operational stability, including IT risk and compliance management, delivering service improvements and providing input to service management strategies.

What you will bring:

• 5+ years’ experience in large enterprises and 3+ years in agile environments (or equivalent work experience)
• Solid experience in operational service management
• Airline technology experience, preferably Qantas
• People leadership experience across multiple configurations of teams
• Proven ability to apply analytical and critical thinking skills to solve, or lead the solving of strategic problems of high complexity on a large scale
• Expert stakeholder management skills across both business and technical functions
• Experience in coaching and modelling Agile mind-set and ways of working –
• Experience designing and facilitating fit for purpose workshops that deliver defined outcomes
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Able to work cross-functionally and align business unit processes to enterprise business processes
• Strong negotiation and conflict skills, strong commercial and business acumen

Why Qantas? 

If you’re successful in your application, you’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully. 

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.  

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel. 

• We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays. 
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.  
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices. 
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan. 

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

Please note: applications will only be considered for candidates who have the right to work in Australia / New Zealand without restriction or sponsorship.

Applications close by the 25th of August 2025