Flexible Product Owner — Agile Roadmap Leader

Westpac New Zealand Ltd; Auckland; On-site; NZD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand Ltd is seeking a Product Owner to own and operate a product/service, leading an agile development team and maximizing value for customers. You will bridge product strategy and delivery with day-to-day ownership, prioritisation, and quarterly planning.

The role requires extensive experience with agile product ownership, strong stakeholder management, and data-driven decision making to drive roadmap delivery and product excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with the Agile product owner craft and best practices.
• Ability to understand complex challenges/concepts and articulate these clearly.
• Experience with iterative, continuous delivery and visualisation methods for roadmaps.
• Experience with managing scope and prioritisation, making data-based decisions.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with internal & external customers to understand their needs and pain points and use data driven decisioning to power the product/service forward
• Accountable for managing scope, prioritisation and ensuring good quality agile ceremonies
• Help streamline execution, and promote continuous delivery, while maintaining the technical integrity of the product/service
• Manages supplier, business partner and third-party relationships where necessary
• Owns the build, run, enhance and retire lifecycle of the product/service
• Leads the Quarterly Planning Process (QPP) with the team, providing a high level, sized view of deliverables for the coming period with confidence levels.
• Responsible for planning to squad financials, quantifying effort required and value delivered
• Perform related duties as assigned, within the scope of role and as required by senior leadership.

Skills

Agile product owner

Stakeholder management

Data-based decisioning

Growth mindset

Influencing without authority

Enables performance

Job description

Westpac New Zealand Ltd is seeking a Product Owner to own and operate a product/service, leading an agile development team and maximizing value for customers. You will bridge product strategy and delivery with day-to-day ownership, prioritisation, and quarterly planning.

The role requires extensive experience with agile product ownership, strong stakeholder management, and data-driven decision making to drive roadmap delivery and product excellence.