Platform Product Owner — Test & Simulation Environments

Gallagher Security; Hamilton; Hybrid; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & bonuses

Hybrid work

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Mentorship & development

Team culture & events

Job summary

Gallagher Security is seeking a strategic Product Owner in Hamilton to champion platforms and services enabling engineering teams to deliver world-class products. You will define direction, priorities, and investment decisions for development tools, shared services, and test environments that underpin delivery.

You’ll work with engineering leaders to ensure initiatives align with business objectives, are funded appropriately, and delivered to maximise value for customer-facing product

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar product role, ideally working with technical or platform products.
• Technical and platform empathy, with the ability to connect engineering capability to business value, outcomes and investment decisions.
• Confidence practising internal-customer product management and making clear prioritisation trade-offs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, together with fluency in Agile ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Own the product direction for the test and simulation environment used to assure our products across complex configurations, including performance and resilience.
• Represent engineering teams as internal customers, make assumptions explicit and maintain feedback loops to understand and prioritise their platform and test needs.
• Build the business and investment case for development systems, shared services, platform and assurance work so it competes fairly with feature delivery.
• Own the outcome‑level roadmap and prioritisation, partnering with engineering leads who manage technical delivery and the day‑to‑day backlog.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile methods

Stakeholder management

Technical empathy

Job description

Gallagher Security is seeking a strategic Product Owner in Hamilton to champion platforms and services enabling engineering teams to deliver world-class products. You will define direction, priorities, and investment decisions for development tools, shared services, and test environments that underpin delivery.

You’ll work with engineering leaders to ensure initiatives align with business objectives, are funded appropriately, and delivered to maximise value for customer-facing product