in Sydney, Australia
Who are we looking for?
You have diverse project experience leading teams using Design Thinking approaches through strategic research, concept ideation, prototyping and development across the complete customer perspective. You are able to compellingly communicate the story of design solutions. You know how digital can support customer experience and you have a track record of delivering great services across all channels.
Read moreYou can generate new design opportunities by applying Lean thinking creatively about financial impacts, risks, experiments and data. You look at problems and opportunities in the wider system; the business model, channel strategy, marketing, supply chain, and many, many other areas that may affect an outcome. You are proficient with numbers as well as decomposing a business constraint and measuring processes.
Read moreYou are a senior leader who leverages Lean and Design to transform service companies. Having guided and delivered a portfolio of high profile strategic programs, you have been responsible for multiple initiatives and you can point to many that are in the market.
You can work hands on with practitioners and explain to all stakeholders throughout an organisation a proposal with an earned authority.
You are a passionate, experienced and talented Service Designer or Interaction Designer with skills in designing and building compelling, multi-channel experiences that are truly meaningful to customers. You have a deep understanding of where digital can support customer experience.
You have a highly developed understanding of design processes and methodologies, can identify and evangelise best practice and push new boundaries. With strong interpersonal skills, you have an ability to create a design vision, and inspire teams through collaboration. You lean on your excellent creative skills for generating, prototyping and building ideas. Working in cross-functional teams, you will be leading the design component of projects with a core focus on digital experience for sales and service.
Read more / lessYou are a senior leader who has leveraged design to transform service companies. Having guided and delivered a portfolio of high profile strategic programs, you have been responsible for multiple initiatives and you can point to many that are in the market.
You know how to: creatively design and deliver programs, develop relationships across the business, influence at an executive level. Much of what you've delivered is in market so you have real experience of bringing something new to market whilst maintaining it’s customer integrity and design intent. When required, you don’t mind ‘rolling up your sleeves’ and designing with your teams. You will be accountable for the delivery of multiple initiatives within a program.
Read more / lessWho you’ll be working with
Lead interaction designer passionate about creating futures we've only imagined of. Ex design educator & co-founder, Tammy has dabbled in synthetic biology (as you do).
Leads the Design and Lean teams, Brett is a six sigma black belt with a strong appreciation for design. Before joining the organisation, Brett was lean six sigma Director at Merck & Co Inc.
Valerie is a Lean Six σ BB problem solver with experience managing strategic initiatives and strategy development. She is passionate in delivering great customer experiences and business results.
Ellie is a Service Designer with a flair for communication design. Interested in how design can solve complex problems, she previously worked as an information designer at Second Road.
I collaborate with clients to craft a vision or strategy, understand the people they wish to engage, and design an experience- both physical and digital that inspires brand belief.
Service Designer with a passion for prototyping. You've worked somewhere we respect. You're interested in social innovation and appreciate there's a social innovation secondment available.
Director of our Ecosystem Team, Fran (aka ‘Queen of CCD’) is charged with our transformation activities. Previously Fran was a Partner at IDEO where she built their Service Design practice.
Six sigma black belt Christian designs and improves lean processes (impressing designers with maths). Previously Christian was the Customer Experience Project Director at Optus.
Stream Lead, Romy has a background in Marketing and Brand with a focus on the customer experience. Previous experience includes BT Financial Group, Telstra and Rabobank.
Project Lead and Service Designer Anette is passionate about making the complex simple and using design to make a difference. Before coming to Australia she worked for Tieto in Norway.
Experienced process design & improvement black belt, Richard can be found near a wall with brown paper and post its. Previous experience includes KPMG, London Underground & Motorola.
With an extensive background in project and change management, Emma is our Portfolio & Support Manager, our rock and glue. She sets our team and our projects up for success.
Michelle is responsible for building Design & Lean capapbility throughout the organisation. She has experience leading digital teams in a number of roles including CTO at totaljobs.com.
Andrew is a Lean Six σ BB with 20 years' experience in Financial Services. Based in South Australia, Andrew is one of our business experts.
Lean Six σ BB, MBA with financial services experience in Australia and NZ. Passionate about solving complex problems to improve the lives of customers and staff.
Lean Six Sigma black belt with experience in project & change management, Mirella previously worked in pharmaceuticals. She is passionate about collaborating on complex problems.
Every team has a mascot. We have Ram. He's a glittery member of our cast of characters that joins the best performing team each week. How long will it take for Ram to join your project?
Lean member Sonja is a rare breed with a both Lean & Design expertise. An architect by trade, she has varied experience working in finance, telcos and on some of the buildings in the city.
Design strategist with 9 years of experience in the UK, including Livework and GOV.UK. Excited about helping people & businesses have meaningful experiences with money.
How we work
Alongside Strategic Projects and R&D efforts, we also help the organisation transform. Our goal is to help the company become more innovative both in what we do and how we do things. Everyone contributes to transformation activities, but we have a dedicated Ecosystem team driving the change in roles, rules, tools and infrastructure to embed design and lean, both bottom-up and top-down.
We are a unique mix of Design and Lean practitioners. Lean defines the best processes to deliver the ideal experience, which the Design team is responsible for creating. We have found this to be particularly powerful in our multi-channel service company. We apply our skills separately or together depending on the problem we are solving.
We integrate with the part of the business we are working with at any given time. We structure ourselves in cross-functional teams to best deliver holistic solutions that are first and foremost desirable for the end user, as well as financially viable and feasible to build and sustain.
Test & learn is a key aspect of our approach (Think Lean Startup). We are evolving methods to iteratively test and prototype on an increasingly large scale, working with the organisation to best support this approach to launch new experiences to market.
Watch our team, previously housed under BT Financial Group, on the ABC News
Working at the Westpac Group
Working in a large organization brings with it a very particular culture and even more so working within a bank. It means as a team we have to be great at building relationships across many departments and businesses within the group whilst maintaining what makes us special. At a group level the company has strong values which it acts upon in very tangible ways. At a team level, we have our own culture where we work hard but smart, we’re supportive not competitive and we care about designing the right customer experience and designing the customer experience right. We have fantastic support at all levels within the organization and there is a lot of enthusiasm and encouragement for what we do. We’re trusted to be the experts.
Easily spotted wearing jeans, we do some serious work but strive to keep the casual and positive atmosphere which we believe is so conducive to our creativity. We work as integrated teams within the businesses we work with, so are often spread around the buildings in Sydney. This year alone Westpac was rated the most sustainable company in the world at Davos, gifted a $100 million education fund, one of the largest philanthropic donations in Australian history. The group continually ranks well as an employer supporting diversity, women in leadership and flexible working. For a large corporation, it has a heart.
Living in Sydney
We can't lie, it's a pretty good life here. The city is beautiful. It's comfortably warm and sunny most of the year. People are friendly and down to earth, valuing a healthy work / life balance. (For those of us who have moved here from colder climates, we’ve never been so fit.) Many of us live near the beach, some right in the city next to all the bars, cafes and shops. There’s a lot of diversity between suburbs. Sydney is large enough to offer diversity, but not so big that it’s overwhelming. Each one of our expats have applied for permanent residency sponsored through the organisation, they like it that much. For those moving from other countries, Westpac offers an option to take unpaid leave on top of your holiday should you need some extra time to visit family or show them round Australia.
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