Product-owner Remote-emplois à Bengaluru, Karnataka ∙ Page 1

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Who We Are

Telstra is a well-known Australian company that has been around for over 100 years. We are the leading telecommunications and technology company in Australia and have been operating internationally for over 70 years. We have a strong presence in over 20 countries. In India, we have offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi, as well as an Innovation and Capability Centre in Bangalore. We are focused on using innovation, automation, and technology to solve major technological challenges in areas such as IoT, 5G, AI, and machine learning. Joining Telstra gives you the chance to make a difference in the lives of millions of people and have a rewarding career with flexibility.

Focus of the Role

As a Technology Product Owner Senior Specialist, you thrive on enabling technical capability teams to develop and operate capabilities, applications and platforms, prioritizing the teams’ backlogs to deliver measurable value to the business and operational efficiency. You authentically engage with and effectively influence a diverse stakeholder landscape within Products & Technology – SE&IT and across Telstra, to drive realistic and ambitious operational and customer outcomes.

What we offer

• Flex appeal; work when and from where suits you best

• Performance-related pay

• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up

• 16 weeks paid parental leave, for primary and secondary carers

• Purchased annual leave scheme

• Laptop, mobile phone + plan; you’ll never see a phone bill

• Extra day off per year, for you to use as you like

• 30% off Telstra Products and Services       

What You’ll Do

• Act as the overarching technical product owner within the Group, partner with Engineering and collaborate with users, stakeholders and product owners across Telstra to align your technical capability vision with the Group and Telstra’s strategic priorities, so that it drives and continually improves modular, reusable technical capabilities and components.

• Actively manage the end-to-end development, delivery, execution, integration requirements and lifecycle management and optimization of technology products and services to enable risks, issues, dependencies, timeline and costs to be managed.

• Collaborate with the team, stakeholders and mission product owners to discover usability concerns and functional gaps and generating insights that uncover feature enhancement solutions.

• Lead the definition, management and scheduling of work to manage the operational lifecycle of the technical capability and applications, including support, maintenance and capacity planning.

• Partner with engineering in the deployment and execution of operational and business acceptance activity, including managing post-deployment issues from root cause analysis through to resolution.            

• Lead the identification and management of unit cost reduction opportunities, including managing any technology vendors’ design, development, delivery and operation, to continuously improve productivity and cost to operate.

• Collaborate to shape and influence culture of transparency by producing data to demonstrate and track delivery achievements and concerns, operational performance and health, and providing input to the wider team for capability performance, growth and learning.

• Develop and champion business cases and funding bids to enable the team to maintain operational performance and deliver their work, and ensure the team operates within its budget constraints.

• Foster a culture of collective ownership and accountability for the work completed within the team and assist the team to implement effective fit for purpose development and operational practices

Essential Skills:

• Product life cycle management to Delivery, Monitoring, CICD management, Deployment, Testing and Acceptance, Go to market planning, Product Release, Incident, Problem and Change Management, Lifecycle Management, user access controls, security, resilience, risk and compliance management

• Human centered design practices

• Integration

• System architecture

• Data analytics and management

• Identification and curation of products and solutions to Competitor review Technology investment/strategy

• Agile practices, Jira and/or Rally (tools for planning, tracking, and release of software features and enhancements), Confluence or similar tool

• Problem solving

• Communication to Influencing to Business partnering/Collaboration to Presentation

• Negotiation

• Stakeholder management

• Financial management

• Project management inc Scrum and SAFe qualifications

• ITIL operations / application management

• ITIL / IT delivery management

• Vendor management

• Contract management Soft Skills

• Strategic Thinking

• Stakeholder Engagement* & Management

• Negotiation

• Facilitation

• Problem Solving

• Storytelling

• Team Building*

• Providing Feedback

• Motivating Teams

• Influencing

• Influencing Change

• Team Coaching

• Ways of Working

• Agile Practices

• DevOps Practices

• Agile Tools - Jira & Confluence

• Product lifecycle management & roadmaps

• Product Vision

• Continuous Delivery

• Lean Practices

• Resilience & Security

• IT Resilience

• Business Resilience

• Cyber Security

• Management & Operations

• Prioritisation

• Incident Management

• Problem Management

• IT* Change Management

• Standards & Compliance Management

• Risk Management

• Business Change Management

• Product & System Performance Management

• Asset & Software Asset Management (SAM)

• Questioning inclusion

• Product Ownership

• Operations Management

• Communication Skills

• Leadership

• Collaboration

• Active Listening

• Communicating with Influence

• Contract Management

• Career Coaching

• Vendor Management

Highly desirable:

• System architecture

• Human Centered Design Practices

• User Story Writing

• Process Mapping & Design

• Financial Management & Acumen

• Commercial Acumen

• Business Case Development

• Business Analysis

• Project Management

• Data Analytics

• Team Performance Management

• Certifications in PMPO or something similar is preferable.

We’re amongst the top 2% of companies globally in the CDP Global Climate Change Index 2023, being awarded an ‘A’ rating.  If you want to work for a company that cares about sustainability, we want to hear from you.

As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia) and +1 (623) 400-7726 (for job applications in the Philippines and India).

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.