About the role
Join the Tech Foundations team at Optus as an Associate Director, Technical Product Management, where you’ll lead the engineering and operation of our Internet Presence platform—a mission-critical capability that enables product teams to safely and securely expose APIs and applications to the internet.
This platform plays a vital role in protecting our customers’ data and ensuring secure, scalable, and seamless digital experiences. You’ll be responsible for shaping the platform’s roadmap, driving engineering excellence, and partnering closely with Cyber, Digital, and Engineering teams to continuously evolve its capabilities.
What you’ll do
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-Lead the product strategy, engineering, and operations of the Internet Presence platform.
-Partner with internal customers—developers, product teams, and engineering leaders—to understand their needs and improve their experience.
-Drive adoption of modern, secure-by-design practices across internet-facing applications and APIs.
-Identify opportunities to simplify processes and amplify value through automation and modern technologies.
-Apply a product mindset to platform evolution, balancing customer needs, security, and operational efficiency.
-Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Cyber, Digital, and IT to align on priorities and outcomes.
What makes You a great fit
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-Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager, Technical Lead, or Principal Engineer.
-Strong technical competency in APIs, WAFs, API Gateways, and secure engineering practices.
-Familiarity with risk and control frameworks such as CIS or NIST, and the ability to communicate security considerations clearly.
-A passion for product thinking, with a focus on building sustainable, scalable, and secure platforms.
-Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills.
-Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
Perks we love at Optus
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-Thrive in a culture that encourages experimentation, learning, and innovation
-Collaborate with talented engineers, architects, and product leaders across the business
-3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!
-Discounts to Optus products and services
-Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenient store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym, and an on-site childcare centre
-Inclusive carer neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks
-Competitive leave including 2 additional 'Connected Leave' days
-All Optus employees have access to resources, webinars and support via the ‘Parents at Work portal’
-Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue.
-Novated car leasing, and other financial benefits
-Connect at work through our employee-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans, Yarn Network, Wellbeing Network and Young Professionals.
Keen to see what it’s really like to work at Optus? Search #OptusLife on LinkedIn to go behind the scenes!
At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, Apply AccessibleRecruitmentoptus.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.
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