Product Owner, Senior Manager

PRODUCT OWNER SENIOR MANAGER – CONSUMER – MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

At Allianz, we’re proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire the very best people to further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.

We offer an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back to the community and feel proud to be a part of an organisation doing meaningful work that matters while supporting sustainability, mental health, and well-being.

Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

About the role

• Define, communicate, and continuously refine the product vision and roadmap, aligning priorities with business strategy, OKRs, customer needs, and measurable outcomes while maintaining deep domain expertise and acting as a trusted authority within the Tribe.
• Own and govern product backlogs across multiple squads, establish prioritisation frameworks, ensure backlog health and readiness, and coach Product Owners to drive consistent, high-quality product management practices.
• Build and manage senior stakeholder relationships across business, technology, and leadership teams, represent the product area in governance forums, and balance competing priorities with transparency, confidence, and diplomacy.
• Lead customer discovery, research, and validation activities to ensure decisions are driven by user insights, while coordinating cross-squad dependencies, resolving impediments, and managing risks to maintain roadmap alignment and delivery success.

About you

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and agile/product certifications, supported by 5+ years of Product Owner/Product Manager experience, including senior-level accountability for product strategy and outcomes. Additionally, extensive knowledge of the General Insurance landscape is advantageous.
• Strong leadership experience in agile environments, with a proven ability to coach and develop team members, lead across complex matrix organisations, and influence stakeholders without formal authority.
• Deep expertise in agile delivery, product management, and technology, including roadmap and backlog governance, scaled agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban), SDLC, technical architecture, dependency management, and value-based prioritisation.
• Proven commercial and stakeholder management capabilities, including developing business cases, managing ROI-driven investment decisions, defining and tracking product success metrics, and communicating effectively with executive, board-level, and external stakeholders.
• A passion for leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Benefits and perks

• Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day!
• Work-life balance: Enjoy our flexible, hybrid work arrangements, and tailored workplace adjustments, where possible.
• Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
• Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer!
• For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.

About Allianz Group

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Adjustments and support

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to careers@allianz.com.au for a confidential conversation.

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow. www.allianz.com.au/careers 

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