The Role

SKAO is delivering one of the world’s most advanced scientific instruments: a complex, globally distributed observatory built through tightly coordinated engineering, integration, commissioning and operational readiness activities. Delivery is milestone- and verification-led, with progress governed through formal requirements, system integration gates, commissioning evidence and readiness for real telescope operations.

Within this context, Product Management helps ensure that delivery remains focused on the outcomes that matter most for the telescope and its users. The role is not simply about managing a backlog; it is about connecting user needs, scientific and operational value, engineering delivery, and programme commitments.

You will help to:

• frame problems around the people who will use, operate and support the telescope, the behaviour changes needed, and the value we expect to create;
• translate outcomes into sequenced, testable increments that fit programme milestones, integration constraints and delivery realities;
• define “done” through measurable success criteria and evidence, aligned with verification, commissioning and operational needs;
• support clear prioritisation and trade-off decisions across a broad stakeholder landscape, protecting telescope outcomes while recognising programme constraints.

You will provide day-to-day product leadership across the SKA-Low telescope, working closely with distributed teams of engineers, architects, operations, commissioning and science staff, as well as project and programme leadership and other members of the Product Management team.

This is a fixed-term appointment to the end of June 2029 and will be based in Perth, Australia.