Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Data & AI team as a Manager - AI Labs. If you’re a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne, we’d love you to apply.
Why join us?
- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.
About the role
As the AI Labs Manager at ART, you will lead a newly formed enterprise lab focused on AI experimentation and innovation. You’ll drive a culture of rapid ideation and testing, enabling ART to explore and scale emerging AI solutions that deliver real value to members and the business. This strategic leadership role partners across the organisation to align AI innovation with enterprise priorities and long-term transformation goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the AI Lab team to identify, design, and prototype AI use cases aligned with strategic priorities.
- Build a culture of experimentation while ensuring governance and ethical AI practices.
- Develop and mature the AI Lab operating model, including governance, metrics, and prioritisation.
- Manage the innovation pipeline and champion use cases from ideation to scaling.
- Provide technical and strategic leadership to ensure secure scalable AI architecture patterns, rigorous testing and clear success criteria.
- Collaborate with internal teams to transition successful experiments into production.
- Partner with legal, risk, and ethics teams to embed responsible AI principles.
- Engage business units to co-design problem statements and assess feasibility and impact.
- Get hands-on with designing, testing and implementing AI solutions.
This role is a permanent opportunity.
About you
You are a pragmatic calm leader with deep expertise in AI and innovation, capable of translating emerging technologies into practical, impactful solutions. You are biased to action and bring a collaborative, transparent, and strategic mindset to the team. Your ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence enterprise direction makes you a key driver on ART’s journey to leverage AI solutions for the benefit of our Members and colleagues.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience leading AI or innovation teams in lab or proof-of-concept environments, with the view to scale AI solutions.
- Strong technical foundation in AI/ML concepts and experimentation frameworks.
- Expertise in Microsoft AI services (Co-pilot, AI Foundry), Databricks, and other major platforms.
- Experience designing and reviewing AI architectures and transitioning PoCs to production.
- Ability to turn ambiguous ideas into testable hypotheses and structured experiments.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Demonstrated alignment of experimentation outcomes with strategic enterprise goals.
- Experience with responsible AI frameworks and Agile delivery for rapid prototyping.
About us
Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.
Apply online now
Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close 11:30pm 24 August 2025.
