Product Director – Department of Defence
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770454
- Agency: Department of Defence
- Job Title: Product Director
- Position Number: CASG/02899/26
- Classification: Executive Level 2
- Closing Date: Monday 13 July 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing
- Location: Russell ACT
- Future Merit Locations: Russell
- Salary: $144,430 – $173,359
- Office Arrangement: On Site (Defence is committed to supporting workplace)
About Department of Defence
EWIS Joint & Air SPO is a fast-paced workplace, in an innovative environment, that may be the
perfect place for you to make your mark. We pride ourselves in having a positive, collaborative
and inclusive workplace which is always striving to be high performing and high achieving.
Electromagnetic Warfare and Intelligence Systems Branch in Joint Systems Division is an exciting
and complex environment, offering a rewarding career in one of the most dynamic organisations
within CASG. We deliver, integrate and sustain intelligence and electromagnetic warfare
capabilities into a wide range of air, land and maritime platforms and systems.
We have a high performing culture and are faced with complex challenges in our role to defend
Australia and its interests. We deliver joint capability and work primarily on three areas: electronic
protection, electronic support and electronic attack and seeks to be recognised and respected as a
centre of expertise and global leader delivering and supporting capability solutions in the EWIS
domain.
Our Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will:
Extensive experience in all aspects of project management and/or product management
across multiple lifecycle stages including transition into sustainment, obsolescence
forecasting and life-of-type analysis.
Extensive experience spanning commercial acumen, strategic planning, complex
stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills.
A demonstrated experience of managing a budget and the multi-disciplinary workforce
required to deliver prioritised outcomes.
A proven ability to lead a geographically dispersed team to achieve quality outcomes in a
high tempo environment.
A strategic thinker who can demonstrate a strong understanding of organisational strategies,
long-term investment plans, and related frameworks, and how these influence the
acquisition, delivery, and sustainment of capability.
Highly developed communication skills, self-drive, and initiative with the ability to influence
others both up and down the management chain to achieve tasks and business objectives.
If you are high performing, enjoy stakeholder engagement, and can lead and develop a
graphically dispersed team to achieve outcomes, this is the job for you!
Duties
- The Role
- The Electromagnetic Warfare and Intelligence Systems (EWIS) Branch is seeking an experienced
- and high performing product or program leader to deliver critical electronic warfare and intelligence
- capabilities to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). As Product Director – Joint & Air, you will hold
- a senior leadership position within the EWIS Joint & Air Systems Program Office.
- You will be accountable for the sustainment of critical intelligence, communications and electronic
- warfare effects capabilities that directly contribute to joint and air operational advantage. Essential
- to success in this role is the ability to lead, integrate, and harness the efforts of multidisciplinary
- teams.
- Key attributes include a strong outcomes focus, the capacity to marshal geographically dispersed
- teams and leverage their specialist expertise, and the ability to build and sustain effective
- relationships with stakeholders across EWIS Joint & Air SPO, Defence, industry, and other
- external stakeholders. The role requires a demonstrated commitment to problem solving, with the
- agility and responsiveness to adapt to evolving objectives, pressures, and priorities. This role
- requires domestic travel as well as occasional international travel.
Eligibility / Notes
- Security Clearance:
- Prior to commencement, successful applicants will be required to undergo a psychological
- assessment and an extensive security clearance process. As a Positive Vetting clearance is
- required, applicants must be Australian Citizens; be able to account for their personal background
- for their whole life; and be able to demonstrate suitability to work in a high security intelligence
- environment.
How to Apply
Position Contact Vanessa Lowe, 02 5130 4806
Agency Recruitment Site https://defencecareers.nga.net.au/?jati=AB2F8221-8AEB-ED1A-7787-ED0945638
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