Productivity Enablement Specialist

Role Mission: Accelerate AI-enabled process transformation to improve how technology teams deliver value for clients.

The Productivity Enablement Specialist partners directly with engineering product platform and architecture teams to improve delivery effectiveness through workflow optimization AI adoption and measurable productivity improvements. This role applies technical expertise process improvement methodologies and emerging AI capabilities to reduce friction improve flow enhance quality and accelerate outcomes across a portfolio of technology teams.

A traditional Agile coaching or facilitation role. While the position influences team behaviors and ways of working its primary focus is delivering measurable improvements in workflows systems tooling and business outcomes.

An advisory-only role. This is a hands-on execution position accountable for implementing solutions and driving measurable results not simply providing recommendations.

• Own team-level productivity improvement across a portfolio of 67 teams partnering with engineering product platform and architecture stakeholders to identify friction redesign workflows and embed AI-assisted ways of working with clear measures of impact and accountability.
• Apply hands-on technical skills and AI tooling to experiment with design and implement AI-powered workflows automations and orchestration that improve how teams move from discovery through delivery.
• Lead value-stream and FLOW deep dives to identify recurring sources of friction including handoffs rework blocked time meetings and delivery bottlenecks and translate insights into actionable system process and tooling improvements.
• Embed AI into the flow of work including areas such as drafting summarization backlog shaping test generation engineering workflows and other high-value opportunities that reduce manual effort and improve execution.
• Partner hands-on with teams to deliver measurable change using throughput predictability quality flow and productivity measures to understand impact strengthen adoption and continuously refine solutions.
• Turn successful experiments into repeatable practices documenting proven workflows patterns playbooks and technical approaches that other teams can adopt and scale.
• Build team capability and ownership ensuring AI-enabled improvements become sustainable ways of working rather than one-time interventions or centrally owned solutions.
• Serve as the local execution arm of the cross-region productivity operating model triaging opportunities across supported teams focusing effort where it can create the greatest impact and surfacing early indicators of OKR and delivery risk through AI-powered insights.
• Stay current on emerging AI capabilities and engineering practices applying techniques such as context engineering MCP agentic workflows and automation where they can materially improve delivery outcomes.

• Minimum of eight years of experience in software engineering technology transformation developer productivity technical program management consulting or a related technology discipline.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles modern engineering practices and delivery methodologies with the ability to identify and remove delivery bottlenecks.
• Hands-on experience applying AI-enabled tools automation or emerging technologies to improve team productivity quality and operational efficiency.
• Proven ability to influence and partner with engineering product and technology leaders in a complex matrixed environment while driving measurable change.

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About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.