You are passionate about working with Creative and Innovative thinkers bringing their ideas into the world. You will lead the IP Office driving both CBA’s participation in Open Source and establish a Patents Office.

Our team is driven by its mission to ensure that the CBA has global technology competitive advantage, and works every day to enhance collaboration, innovation & excellence through innovation, community and partnership.

Together we’re working to build the bank of tomorrow, making things better for employees and customers.

Do work that matters:

CommBank is establishing an Intellectual Property (IP) Office to enhance technology innovation and collaboration with the organisation and improve our brand in the global technology community.

As the Senior Manager for the IP office, you love the challenge of building a technology focused community in a cross-functional team comprised of technical, risk, legal and security experts. The IP office will work toward two outcomes; Driving CBA’s adoption and participation in Open Source and establishing a Patents Office in the bank.

Open Source focuses on managing the consumption, contribution, and publication of open-source solutions within CommBank, enhancing collaboration, innovation, and security. Your role will be to foster a community around Open-Source Software (OSS) building the standards, knowledge and enthusiasm to support CBA’s maturity in OSS practices and over time build our contribution to the external OSS community.

The Patents Office will engage with some of the best engineers and innovative thinkers across the bank to understand the novel solutions they are developing and working with a cross functional team to design, register and maintain patents across the world.

See yourself in our team

The IP Office sits within the Group Technology Division of the Commonwealth Bank in the Innovation team with the Group’s CTO function.

To deliver their work the Innovation team engages and collaborates with a wide range of technology partners, legal firms, and internal Business Units to design, experiment, and implement solutions that revolutionise the way we work and serve our customers.

The team is full of highly driven, tenacious and inspired individuals who come together to solve puzzles each and every day. We’re here to do the best work of our lives. Are you up for it?

This role sits within the CIO for Technology and reports to the Executive Manager of Enterprise Innovation (Emerging Technology).

Your key responsibilities

• Develop the Practice: Develop the IP Office Practice and ways of working, to continually advance our craft and evolve the tools and techniques we use in our work, and role model the IP Office Team Principles and Values.

• Drive Open Source and Patent Office (OS&PO) Initiatives: Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to identify opportunities, manage open source portfolios, drive patent ideas and ensure successful end-to-end delivery of initiatives.

• Lead Initiative Delivery: Oversee the entire lifecycle of open source projects and patent registration, from policy development and compliance to community engagement (internal and external) and contribution management.

• Enhance Collaboration: Act as a central point of contact between Engineering, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Business and External stakeholders to ensure seamless communication and alignment.

• Policy Development: Develop and implement policies and procedures for consuming, contributing to, and publishing open source software, and for registering and maintaining patents globally.

• Community Engagement and Education: Foster a culture of continuous innovation and technological advancement through open source contribution and patents creation within the organisation

• Risk Management: Identify, articulate and manage risks and conflicts across various streams of work.

We are interested to hear from people who have:

• A pre-requisite for this role is a familiarity with GitHub and Jira.

• Strong Agile delivery track record, across open source projects and/or enterprise transformational programs of work

• A strategic and creative mindset, that thrives under pressure, operates well with ambiguity, and has the resilience to solve puzzles no one at the Bank has solved before.

• An experimentation mindset, with a keen interest in open source trends and their potential impact on the future of the Bank and how it serves the enterprise and customers.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.

• Ability to multitask and be flexible with changing priorities or deadlines.

• An ability to learn quickly and adopt a strong growth mindset to continually develop and learn new skills.

• Previous experience working with an open source program and Financial Services preferred but not essential.

At CommBank, flexibility is:

• For everyone, no matter what their reason is for flexing.

• Where we work, when we work & how we work.

• Trusting our people and focusing on outcomes, not just face time. Discover how our people take advantage of flexible work options. Learn more about how we prioritise your wellbeing.

If this sounds like you – apply now!