Senior Technical Product Analyst

About the ABC

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,500 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 60 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

The Role

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in shaping how data supports the development of ABC Digital Products. The Senior Technical Product Analyst contributes to and delivers the product data strategy, helping Product & Technology teams leverage data to make informed decisions, improve products and deliver on the ABC's strategic objectives.

Working closely with product, technology and business stakeholders, you will provide specialist expertise in product analytics, data modelling and data visualisation, while supporting data capability uplift and driving best practice across digital product teams.

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver the product data strategy for ABC Digital Product to support Product & Technology and ABC strategic objectives.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Technical Leads and key stakeholders to design the standards for data capture, ensuring data is meaningful, trusted and consistent across all ABC Digital Products.
• Provide subject matter expertise and collaborate with a team of Technical Product Analysts under the guidance of the Group Product Manager.
• Work across teams to capture and deliver the data required to inform product roadmap decisions through practical and accessible visualisation tools and techniques.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, incorporating business needs and feedback into future planning and product enhancements.
• Lead data literacy uplift initiatives across the department and contribute to reducing data quality incidents.
• Define, maintain and document data models that support insights generation and product decision-making.
• Follow and promote practices that meet security and privacy requirements, ensuring all data handling activities comply with relevant regulations and guidelines.

About You

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent significant skills, knowledge and experience in product management, data analytics or digital development.
• Significant experience in data governance and product analytics, with data engineering and data visualisation experience desirable.
• Outstanding capability in leading the implementation of metrics, dimensions, event schemas and calculations with product teams.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to understand business requirements and explain complex technical concepts to stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated technical leadership capability, including experience training, mentoring and guiding team members.
• Proven experience building strategic stakeholder partnerships and collaborating on shared project objectives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with a curiosity for innovation across product analytics, data models and data visualisation.

Full Job Description:  50072059 SENIOR TECHNICAL PRODUCT ANALYST.pdf

What's In It For You?

Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC’s digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia’s most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.

As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop, and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on ABC iview, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website, or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app - the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms.

Your work will be appreciated by millions of audiences across Australia. We are an open and cohesive team where your voice will not get lost. You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog: abc.net.au/digital-product

We are committed to career development and invest in our people to grow and become leaders in their fields. Everyone in the Digital Product department has a designated budget for training and development. We believe in flexible approaches to working and building self-organising and collaborative teams that offer friendly and supportive environments in which all team members can strive and grow.

For further information on this position please contact Jamie Nedved, Recruitment Lead via email ************@abc.net.au 

Note: Your application and CV will only be considered if received through ABC's job application portal.

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.

In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTQIA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.

To request recruitment and selection information in alternate formats, request adjustments, or if you have accessibility requirements please contact *************@abc.net.au

For more information on working at the ABC visit abc.net.au/careers

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.