Optus Hiring for Director, Strategy and Partnerships at Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

At Optus, we have an ambitious goal to be Australia’s most loved everyday brand.

This is your opportunity to join an award-winning and globally recognised AI team who co-creates new products that are taken to market globally and across many industries. We have an in-house AI team that is considered a business function across the entire enterprise as we build an AI-model optimised future.

Your day in the life of a Strategy & Partnerships Director at Optus

• Leveraging AI-driven systems and technologies such as NLP, machine learning and deep learning in day to day tasks to optimise workflows and drive business outcomes.
• Implementing a strategic framework and uncover mutually beneficial opportunities, attracting the latest in innovation, products, services or the optimisation of existing products and services.
• Coordinating a dedicated team who develop and drive strategies with leading technology companies globally to differentiate and scale the very best customer solutions, amplifying and accelerating our company vision.
• Define, develop and maintaining multi-year, strategic relationships with Optus’ key partners including creating proactive interlinks within the Singtel group to ensure Optus interests and that of the group are progressed.
• Bring cross industry insight, disruptively challenge the status quo, and deliver fresh opinion to co-ordinate and drive a targeted approach with partners, galvanising Optus to be more valuable than the sum of its parts, extracting maximum value, output and collaboration.
• Collaborate with all Optus business units to bring together activity and initiatives from across the organisation, joining dots and creating leverage to elevate opportunity for partners and Optus alike.

Your Skills To Pay The Bills

• Proficient in harnessing AI tools and platforms to develop scalable solutions for complex challenges
• Advanced executive presence and deep experience formulating company strategy
• Developing, maintaining, and maximising strategic partnerships, designing enterprise-wide partnership strategies, and forging commercial relationships to build innovative products and experiences;
• Sound experience influencing across diverse and sophisticated cross-functional environments creating a matrixed approach to achieve desired outcomes;
• Proven SME in developing and maintaining long term partner relationships.

Perks we love at Optus

• 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!
• Inclusive paid parental leave, up to 14 weeks for the primary care giver
• All Optus employees have access to resources, webinars and support via the ‘Parents at Work portal’
• Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue – even earn a MBA micro-credential via OptusU (University)
• Connect at work through one of our employee-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans and Yarn Network
• Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office
• Two easy travel options to Sydney Campus: Optus bus from Sydney CBD (20min travel time) and Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon!

Keen to see what it’s really like to work at Optus? Search #OptusLife on LinkedIn to go behind the scenes!

Intrigued but don’t tick every box? We are building our AI capabilities and value diverse perspectives. If you’re driven to join us on this journey, apply now – your passion matters more than a perfect match.

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au along with your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity .