Senior Product Manager, Investment Data

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Closing date: 29th March 2024

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies 

About Us

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $75 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

About the Job

This role is accountable for the overall Investments data product vision and roadmap ensuring this not only delivers business needs, supports the execution of the Investments strategy, and ensures the platform is scalable and resilient.

Accountable for defining and developing the product roadmap to deliver on Investments team user needs for data, analytics and reporting.   Will define the vision and lead the experience for their product; driving to lead the market and ensuring a process of ongoing iterative improvement in line with the wider Investments strategy. 

The role is embedded, and will work day-to-day, within the cross-functional Investments Services and Transformation enablement function.

Vision, roadmap, and priorities is set by a product owner in consultation with the Investments Business and head of Investment Services and Transformation and the Investments Data Governance & BAU lead. 

The team will contain the skills required to deliver working solutions to end-users (including, but not limited to, analysts, quality assurance, scrum master, etc).  

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Accountable to create and maintain the Investment data strategy, leading a team of BA’s, analysts, and BI specialists.
• Drive the product roadmap of the investments data ecosystem to deliver data driven analysis, reporting, and insights
• Accountable as the Data Product Owner for Investment Transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment of program deliverables to broader data roadmap and capability uplift targets.
• Acts as a conduit between Investment Change Portfolio Delivery & wider Investment Team.
• Manage and develop the product roadmap for relevant products to deliver on business and user needs including working closely with the project team members to align with both the organizational vision and strategy as well as the enterprise data & analytics strategy. 
• Extensive product research to evaluate competitor activity, strategies, and emerging market trends locally and globally.
• Ensure that product roadmap decisions are based on a ‘test and learn’ approach where feedback from stakeholders is incorporated into future product development cycles.
• Ensure product vision is clear, documented, and communicated including collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and responsible for driving buy-in with senior executive team for product roadmap / vision. 
• In collaboration with business analyst, define, identify, and document detailed business requirements and functional content features needed to meet requirements. 
• Collaborate closely with development team(s) to ensure that solutions delivered are resilient, scalable, and performant.  Ensure that data technical debt is managed effectively and that all aspects of the product development process are running smoothly.
• Provide thought leadership on the implementation of Data solutions to ensure the right balance between speed-to-value and sustainable, scalable solutions.
• Work closely with the stable team to ensure they understand the “what” and the “why” in backlog and story prioritization. Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories. 
• Own and direct the design of the Investment data architecture, collaborating with the architecture team to continuously plan the ongoing target state and scope of the Investment Reporting and Analytics platform.
• Active participation in Product Community of practice to support incremental maturity of organization's product team capability.
• Lead business engagement, driving change and aligning Data with enterprise needs through a strong ability to build, establish, and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Manage demand and engagement processes, data sourcing and continuous product delivery. 

About You:

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, other Agile practice certification of on the job experience in a related discipline

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Demonstrated experience of Agile product ownership or related roles such as project management 
• Demonstrated experience in Business Intelligence/Data warehousing or related function
• Excellent process, documentation and writing skills with a keen understanding of data quality and information management principles.  
• Experience developing product roadmaps and managing feature and user story backlogs. 
• Product delivery experience with distributed teams and vendor/3rd party partner teams. 
• Experience in decomposition of initiatives into requirements and solid understanding of both user story mapping as well as customer journey mapping. 
• Strong analytical skills, including ability to interpret complex business needs and translate into product requirements for technical solutions. 
• Ability to communicate and engage well with stakeholders at all levels (including senior executives) and be able to present technical solutions in a business context.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a focus on customer, delivery and collaboration. 
• (desired) Business domain knowledge in superannuation or financial services  

Benefits

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Flexible, hybrid working – work to suit your lifestyle (must be based in Australia) 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops) 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2023. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier