Head of AI Acceleration

Are you ready to join the winning team at The Lottery Corporation?

We power Australia’s biggest lottery games – and we’re one of the world’s top-performing lottery businesses.

As the home of The Lott and Keno, we’re building on decades of excitement and life-changing wins, bringing our games to every state and territory except WA.

For more than a century, we’ve been playing our role in creating positive impacts by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community. 

But we’re not standing still. We’re evolving into an entertainment company – more customer-obsessed, more agile and driven by real outcomes.

Because at our core, it’s simple: we create winning moments – and we’re building the next chapter as the team behind Where Australia Comes to Play.

Join us! 

Digital is one of the fastest growing parts of our business, and we're looking for a Head of AI Acceleration to lead our transformation into an AI-native organisation. This role is about far more than experimentation. It's about embedding AI, machine learning, automation and agentic capabilities into the way we create products, build technology, operate services and deliver customer experiences.

This is a delivery-focused leadership role for someone who has successfully taken AI initiatives from concept through to production adoption and measurable business outcomes. We're looking for a leader who knows how to identify high-value opportunities, rapidly experiment, build scalable solutions and drive adoption at scale.

You'll act as an acceleration layer across Digital, helping teams fundamentally rethink how work gets done through AI while lifting productivity, engineering velocity, customer outcomes and commercial performance.

What you’ll do 

• Lead Digital's transition to becoming an AI-native organisation
• Build and scale AI, machine learning, automation and agentic capabilities across the Digital value chain
• Identify high-value AI opportunities and lead delivery from ideation to production adoption
• Transform products and business processes through AI-native design principles
• Industrialise AI and automation solutions that improve productivity, speed and quality
• Establish architecture standards, reusable patterns and delivery frameworks for AI at scale
• Lead responsible AI governance, risk and compliance practices
• Build organisational capability and drive adoption of AI-enabled ways of working
• Build and lead a high-performing team of AI specialists

What you’ll bring  

• A leader who has moved beyond AI strategy and into successful implementation
• Proven experience delivering and scaling AI, machine learning and automation solutions in complex environments
• Demonstrated success taking AI initiatives from concept through to production adoption and value realisation
• Experience implementing Generative AI, LLM, machine learning or intelligent automation capabilities in production environments
• Strong software engineering and solution architecture expertise
• Experience establishing enterprise AI standards, governance and architecture patterns
• Deep understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI, intelligent automation and emerging technologies
• The ability to translate emerging technologies into measurable productivity, customer and commercial outcomes
• Experience leading high-performing engineering, AI or architecture teams`

What you’ll get 
Not only will you receive an awesome candidate experience from our caring Talent team, but you’ll get a genuine feel for who we are and what it’s like to be part of our team. 

The benefits of working with The Lottery Corporation are pretty good. Just to name a few: 

• Balance work and life with our ‘flex for great outcomes’ approach – hybrid working, plus a range of generous leave options.  
• Reward and recognition programs at all levels. Your hard work won’t go unnoticed. 
• Ignite your potential with our dedicated learning and development platform to support your bright future. 
• We empower careers to grow from within. 50% of all roles in 2025 were filled by our own people, proving that your next opportunity is already here! 
• A true sense of belonging. We’re committed to Inclusion & Diversity with a range of initiatives such as our Gender Affirmation Support, employee inclusion networks and diversity memberships and celebrations. 
• Make positive impacts with opportunities to volunteer with our community partners. We'll also dollar match fundraising efforts of our employees lending their support to registered charities. 
   

We’re committed to providing a safe, respectful and supportive work environment. We encourage you to let us know if we can make any accommodations, so the process can be more user friendly for you.   

We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the lands on which our offices, retail outlets and venues operate. We acknowledge the inextricable link First Peoples of Australia have with the land past and present. 

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