Portfolio VMO Lead Digital Products

What's the role?

As the Portfolio VMO Lead for Digital Products, you will drive operational excellence across our digital product strategy, bridging the gap between high-level business priorities and sequenced, executable roadmaps.

This is a newly created, highly hands-on role where you will step into a fast-paced, evolving operating model to create clarity out of complexity. Reporting to the General Manager Value Management Office (VMO) and partnering closely with the Director of Digital Product, your core purpose is to drive operational excellence and ensure the delivery of critical business outcomes.

You will collaborate heavily with Product Heads, Engineering Squads, Managing Directors, and the Technology Leadership Team. From orchestrating cross-tier dependencies to facilitating publishing forums, you will be instrumental in breaking down bottlenecks and delivering on our most critical digital initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level business and digital priorities into structured, executable delivery roadmaps with clear ownership, capacity models, and milestones.
• Lead operational 'fast-forward' pathways to rapidly mobilise urgent digital initiatives without compromising technical stability or release quality.
• Actively hunt down bottlenecks and resolve roadblocks to improve continuous delivery flow and squad throughput, ensuring delivery readiness and appropriate resource mix.
• Lead and facilitate high-level governance steering bodies and publishing forums with Managing Directors, ensuring clear inputs and transparent decision-making.
• Orchestrate complex cross-tier dependencies across Application, Digital Capabilities, Enterprise Data & AI, and third-party vendors.
• Author concise, data-backed executive publishing packs and dashboards to surface delivery risks, capacity conflicts, and necessary trade-off decisions early.

Who are you?

• You have an extensive background driving technology operations, portfolio delivery, or value-stream execution, ideally within large, complex digital or media publishing organisations.
• You possess a demonstrated ability to translate complex strategic goals into executable roadmaps, complete with realistic dependencies, capacity models, and delivery sequences.
• You are a proven strategic partner and influencer, with a track record of successfully guiding and collaborating with General Managers, Product Heads, and Directors.
• You thrive on delivery agility, bringing experience in improving processes to take products and features live quickly under compressed timelines. Experience working within a Scaled Agile environment is highly advantageous.
• You bring strong commercial and technology acumen, including a deep understanding of software lifecycles, platform architecture limitations, and vendor partner dynamics.
• You are highly proactive in risk management, able to identify downstream impacts and capacity conflicts and financial constraints early to provide structured impact analyses and recommended actions.

*Applications close Tuesday, 17th November.

Why News Corp Australia

Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You'll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia's most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.

News Extras Benefits is a commitment to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.

Our benefits include

• Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
• Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money

In addition to our perks and benefits, employees have access to a number of initiatives and programs that support their wellbeing and professional growth, such as:

• Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career
• Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities - Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents' rooms

Who are we?

News Corp Australia is the nation's most influential media organisation, operating more than 150 household-name brands across print, digital and multimedia. We lead the way in travel, fashion, food, health, homes and lifestyle, and we are the largest publisher across print and digital, reaching more than 16 million Australians each month.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity strengthens our national teams and newsroom as we seek to tell stories that represent the communities of Australia. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply!

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