Data Product Owner: Build Reusable Data Products

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Five weeks annual leave

Income protection

Career development

Job summary

NZ Transport Agency | Waka Kotahi (NZTA) is seeking a Data Product Owner to lead the data product journey, guiding the shift from project-led delivery to product-centric data products. You will define ownership, roadmaps and backlogs, and partner with business groups to deliver trusted data products that provide measurable value.

You will own the vision, value and lifecycle of assigned data products, embedding governance, privacy and stewardship from the outset, while working with CTO and

Qualifications

• Experience establishing or evolving products or data capabilities in a complex organisation.
• Ability to uncover business and user needs and balance short- and long-term reuse.
• Proven track record turning ideas into roadmaps and working products with measurable value.
• Understanding of data governance, privacy, security and stewardship.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritise initial data product opportunities with business groups, defining clear user needs, ownership, outcomes and roadmaps.
• Establish and own product backlogs, balancing immediate project needs with reusable enterprise value and making practical trade-offs across risk, cost and dependencies.
• Work with delivery teams to take data products from discovery through to release, demonstrating value and establishing repeatable delivery practices.
• Partner with governance, architecture and platform teams to build quality, security, privacy and stewardship into data products from the outset.
• Build understanding of data products across NZTA, helping stakeholders adopt product-centric ways of working and discover, trust and reuse products.
• Measure early value and adoption, use feedback to improve assigned products, and apply lessons to strengthen lifecycle management as the approach grows.

Skills

Product mindset

Stakeholder management

Roadmap development

Backlog management

Data governance

Data product delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

NZ Transport Agency | Waka Kotahi (NZTA) is seeking a Data Product Owner to lead the data product journey, guiding the shift from project-led delivery to product-centric data products. You will define ownership, roadmaps and backlogs, and partner with business groups to deliver trusted data products that provide measurable value.

You will own the vision, value and lifecycle of assigned data products, embedding governance, privacy and stewardship from the outset, while working with CTO and