Chief Product Designer

Posted:
8/18/2025, 1:30:03 PM

Location(s):
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ⋅ New South Wales, Australia

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product ⋅ UI/UX & Design

Chief Product Designer

About the team 

 

You will join the Chief Technology Office (CTO).  CTO is the infrastructure backbone of the bank and supports all of our businesses to deliver for our customers. 

The role our Chief Technology Office plays in the successful delivery of our new Technology strategy spans all areas: ensuring we can rapidly iterate our products and services to be best-in-market; ensuring our technology and customer data is well-protected from threats; and ensuring we’re available to allow customers to reliably access banking services. 

 

More specifically you will be a part of the Cloud Acceleration team, which drives enterprise-wide cloud transformation by providing enhanced platform engineering and self-service generative AI capabilities, and ensure compliance and resilience across environments, positioning the organisation for scalable, secure, and AI-powered cloud-native application provisioning. 

 

You will report to the General Manager, Cloud Acceleration. 

 

Role Summary 

 

We are looking for a visionary Chief Product Designer to lead the design strategy for our platform products. This role focuses on two core areas: an infrastructure provisioning platform and an AI driven application modernisation platform. The successful candidate will be a technologist with a deep understanding of platform engineering and user-centred design. This is a senior design leadership position responsible for shaping the user experience, interaction models and design systems that support our platform capabilities. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

 

  • Design Leadership   

Define and evolve the design vision for platform products in alignment with business goals and technical capabilities  

Lead the end-to-end design process including discovery, ideation, prototyping and delivery for both infrastructure and application platforms   

  • Platform Strategy   

Collaborate with engineering, architecture and product teams to understand platform capabilities and constraints  

Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive design systems and user experiences   

  • User-Centred Innovation   

Champion the needs of users including application engineers, site reliability engineers and product teams  

Conduct user research, usability testing and feedback loops to inform design decisions   

  • Design Systems and Standards   

Establish and maintain scalable design systems that ensure consistency and accessibility across platform interfaces  

Ensure all design outputs are technically feasible and aligns to group technology strategy  

 

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration   

Partner with crew leads, crew tech leads, product owners, engineers and business stakeholders to co-create platform features and experiences  

Advocate for design excellence and user empathy in technical and strategic conversations  

 

Required Skills and Experience  

  • Proven experience designing complex technical products, ideally in platform or infrastructure domains  

  • Strong understanding of cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and modern application architectures  

  • Expertise in interaction design, systems thinking and information architecture  

  • Ability to translate technical concepts into intuitive user experiences  

  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, especially when engaging with technical audiences  

 

Preferred Qualifications  

  • Experience with developer platforms, engineering tooling or enterprise-grade infrastructure products  

 

Why Join Us 

 

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of platform design in a deeply technical environment. You will work alongside world-class engineers and product leaders to build tools that empower teams and transform how infrastructure and applications are delivered. 

If this sounds like you, apply today!

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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Commonwealth Bank Australia

Website: https://commbank.com.au/

Headquarter Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1911

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Banking ⋅ Finance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ Wealth Management