Our Opportunity

The Digital Product Lead is responsible for owning the product vision, roadmap, and day-to-day delivery of Fortescue’s core digital platforms – including the corporate website, digital asset management system (DAM), and eDM platform.

The role ensures strategic business requirements are translated into clear, actionable technical briefs and works closely with developers, UX specialists, agencies, and stakeholders to drive high quality platform enhancements.

This position acts as the primary interface between business needs and technical execution, owning the backlog, writing detailed specifications, approving UX/IA, and overseeing QA.

The Digital Product Lead ensures that our platforms are technically sound, strategically aligned, and evolving in pace with enterprise requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Own and prioritise the product backlog across web, DAM, and eDM platforms.
Interpret stakeholder requirements into structured, technical documentation (epics, features, user stories, specifications, briefs).
Brief and support front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers, and third-party agencies.
Lead information architecture (IA) development, UX decision-making, and user flow logic across digital platforms.
Scope features and improvements in alignment with digital strategy and platform capacity.
Approve UX/IA approaches in collaboration with Manager Digital.
Run quality assurance (QA) and user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate delivery.
Proactively identify bugs, usability issues, and technical debt, and coordinate resolution.
Maintain expertise in Sitecore, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalisation, Marketing Cloud Engagement, One Trust Consent Management, Azure DevOps, and related tools.
Monitor integration logic between platforms and ensure systems operate as an ecosystem.
Provide a single point of accountability for day-to-day digital product performance.

Qualifications and Experience

University degree in relevant discipline.
Experience managing digital products in complex enterprise environments.
Experience writing technical requirements, managing backlogs, and running QA.
Familiarity with web CMS platforms, DAM, email marketing, and marketing automation.
Experience collaborating across UX, dev, content, and business teams.
Strong skills in Jira, Azure DevOps, Sitecore, Salesforce MCP, and project delivery frameworks.
Technical fluency with CMS architecture, data flows, and system integrations.
Excellent communicator and documentation writer
Confident balancing multiple priorities in a fastpaced digital environment.
Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver technically sound outcomes.
Comfortable challenging unclear or ambiguous

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.

https://fortescue.com/careers

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.