Product Owner

Work type: Full time

Salary: Salary not specified

Grade: VPSG6

Occupation: IT and Telecommunications

Location: Western Metropolitan

Reference: VG/1864101

Come and join Service Victoria and be a part of large Digital Transformation projects

About us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

About the role

Service Victoria has delivered its initial three-year program, which included establishing the new agency and delivering a digital services platform of contemporary cloud-based infrastructure, technical architecture and scalable and reusable common capabilities, with real-time integration into agency legacy systems. Service Victoria is now focused on building the future organisation and the appropriate IT organisation structure and capability that will allow the implemented solutions to be maintained, supported and expanded on an on-going basis. You will also have a chance to work on continuously improving our service offering by bringing in structured improvements based on data analytics and insights from customer experience officers. Reporting to the Product Tribe Lead, this is an integral role to ensuring the delivery of significant platform upgrades including tools and operating environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Liaise with key stakeholders to identify and develop service reform opportunities to improve services for Victorian citizens.
• Represent and balance the needs of customers together with business requirements to provide vision and direction to the delivery team that enables them to deliver the highest value product suite.
• Analyse customer feedback and the overall the performance of the product portfolio from a business, agency and client perspective to identify and prioritise enhancements to improve Service Victoria's products and the experience for customers.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog.

About You

• Track record of proactive stakeholder engagement, potentially in a business development or similar function.
• 5 years' experience in product management or product ownership in a digital environment.
• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile team and providing guidance and direction for the team.
• Strong experience in Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence. Scrum master experience would also be an advantage.

For specific responsibilities please review the attached position description. This is a 12 months fixed term role, based in our Footscray office with hybrid working options.

This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

How to apply

Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on 13 June 2025. All applications should include:

• a resume; and
• a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages)

Other relevant information

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk tothe health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DGS employees be fully vaccinated. Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Pre-employment Declaration and Consent Form. Employment of successful candidates will be subject to a National Police Check. DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.

Applications close Friday 13 June 2025 at 11.59PM