Data Product Owner — Build Reusable Data Solutions

New Zealand Transport Agency; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Work with cloud, analytics and AI

Collaborative and purpose-driven team

Professional development and growth

Five weeks annual leave

Income protection and critical illness

Job summary

New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) is seeking a Data Product Owner to help initiate the data product journey and guide the shift from project-based delivery to a data product–centric agency. You will own the vision, value and lifecycle of assigned data products while partnering with business groups to define ownership, roadmaps and reusable data products.

You will establish product backlogs, collaborate with governance and platform teams, and drive adoption across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience establishing or evolving products, services or data capabilities in a complex organisation, ideally introducing product-centric ways of working.
• Ability to uncover business and user needs, identify practical starting points and balance immediate requirements with long-term enterprise reuse.
• Track record turning ideas into roadmaps, prioritised backlogs and working products, managing dependencies and demonstrating early value.

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

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Roadmaps & backlogs

Governance & security

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) is seeking a Data Product Owner to help initiate the data product journey and guide the shift from project-based delivery to a data product–centric agency. You will own the vision, value and lifecycle of assigned data products while partnering with business groups to define ownership, roadmaps and reusable data products.

You will establish product backlogs, collaborate with governance and platform teams, and drive adoption across stakeholders.