Productivity Enablement Specialist

• Accelerate AI-enabled process transformation to improve how technology teams deliver value for clients.
• While the position influences team behaviors and ways of working, its primary focus is delivering measurable improvements in workflows, systems, tooling, and business outcomes.
• This is a hands-on execution position accountable for implementing solutions and driving measurable results, not simply providing recommendations.

About Vanguard

Vanguard At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Own team-level productivity improvement across a portfolio of 6–7 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.

Requirements

• What this Role is not A traditional Agile coaching or facilitation role.
• An advisory-only role.
• 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.
• Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Benefits

• To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives.