Product Owner

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

Mō te tūranga | About the Role

The Product Owner (PO) is the owner/operator running a ‘business’ that is accountable for delivering a product/service on a day-to-day and sprint-to-sprint basis leading an agile development team. They maximise the value of that product/service and represent the customer in the team, bridging the gap between product strategy and development.

Key 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.

Outcomes / Deliverables

• Define the vision, own the roadmap and backlog, effectively managing trade-off decisions, whilst managing dependencies and any unplanned work.
• Collaborates with Senior Leadership, SME’s, their team, other POs, and Product Managers to ensure alignment and strategic direction.
• Managing and tracking the delivery progress against agreed roadmap and ensure contribution is aligned to the objectives of the organisation.

Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?

• Extensive experience with the Agile product owner craft and best practices
• Ability to understand complex challenges/concepts and articulate these in a simplified, easy to understand manner
• Experience with iterative, continuous delivery and visualisation methods for communicating roadmaps
• Experience with managing scope and prioritisation, making data-based decisions.
• Capabilities: Business acumen
• Stakeholder management
• Data based decisioning
• Inspires and provides direction
• Growth Mindset
• Influencing without authority
• Enables performance

Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation

At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together. What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. We’re a place where you can bring your whole self, your ideas and your ambition, and have the support and opportunities to keep growing. Here, you can do meaningful work, make a difference for our customers and be part of something bigger. Because when we each bring our best and bring it together, there’s no limit to what we can achieve. Tono mai ināianei!

Mahi tahi tātou, tē katia tātou | Together, we’re unstoppable

Applications close: 17 November 2026

The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to build a team rich in different perspectives, experiences and abilities. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodivergent, have chronic health conditions or disabilities. Your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities. Mahi tahi tātou, tē katia tātou

Our culture is rich with stories of how our people like to help, our customers, our community and each other. This is reflected through flexible working arrangements to ensure that our people have a balance in their life with those things that are important to them. Through ensuring that we provide opportunities to everyone regardless of what society throws at them, we are a safe place to work where you are treated equally and appreciated.