Principal AI Product Owner

Country/Region: AU

State: WA

City: Perth

Job ID: 17300

Principal AI Product Owner

Our Opportunity

Work Location: 256 St Georges Tce - Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people.

Roster: Monday to Friday

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity.

The key mission of this role will be to drive the roadmap, agile delivery and adoption of AI solutions that transform our iron ore fixed plant performance. Success in this mission is the delivery of measurable improvements in operational performance across complex large-scale processing and supply chain operations, from primary crusher to port.

This role is suited to senior individual contributors who lead through influence. It would suit candidates coming from a range of backgrounds, including process engineering and metallurgy, product management or data science with experience in processing and control applications. Regardless of background, the right candidate will bring a strong ability to connect operational problems to AI-enabled solutions and drive real adoption and outcomes. As a forward-deployed product leader, your mission is to build close engagement with operations, ensure we get the feedback to rapidly build and iterate in live environments, and to navigate joint accountability to deliver operational outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Develop a vision for how AI and analytics solutions can deliver on Fortescue’s plant control and performance challenges

Develop business cases for these solutions, including value potential, delivery model and stakeholder alignment

Work closely with operations management and teams to build a roadmap for the delivery of these systems, leading planning and OKR-setting processes

Lead the product discovery and development process, using data analysis, user research and lean testing to manage uncertainty and accelerate time to prototype, MVP and operational impact

Work closely with delivery teams to prioritise, bringing business and operational requirements to balance technical considerations, iterating quickly to learn

Develop a measurement strategy, to track leading and lagging indicators of value

Lead the change management process, including building awareness and engagement, and working with front-line operations and technical teams to drive user adoption, support process change and drive real outcomes

Qualifications and Experience

Demonstrated senior experience, either in product management, AI & analytics OR process operations technical disciplines (i.e. process engineering, metallurgy, process control), typically 7+ years

Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience in metallurgy, engineering, data science, computer science or a related field

Experience in cross-functional teams, particularly business & technology

Demonstrated ability to lead change through influence

Ability to translate complex people and technical issues into solution requirements and change strategies

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.