Product Owner at Gallagher Group

Gallagher Group Limited; Hamilton; Híbrido; NZD 110 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive salary and bonuses

Hybrid flexibility

KiwiSaver on-top

Mentorship and development

Team events and supportive culture

Resumo da oferta

Gallagher seeks a strategic Product Owner to champion platforms and services that empower engineering teams to deliver world‑class products. Reporting to the Value Stream Lead – Core Modernisation, you will define direction, priorities, and investment decisions for development tools, shared services, and test environments to maximise value alongside customer‑facing product delivery.

You’ll partner with engineering leaders to align platform initiatives with business objectives, secure appropriate

Qualificações

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar product role.
• Technical and platform empathy, connecting engineering to business value.
• Experience practicing internal‑customer product management and prioritisation trade-offs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills; fluent in Agile ways of working.

Responsabilidades

• Own the product direction for the test and simulation environment used to assure products across complex configurations.
• Represent engineering teams as internal customers, explicit assumptions and feedback loops to prioritise platform and test needs.
• Build the business and investment case for development systems, shared services, platform and assurance work.
• Own the outcome‑level roadmap and prioritisation, partnering with engineering leads who manage technical delivery and backlog.

Conhecimentos

Product ownership

Technical empathy

Internal customer mgmt

Agile working

Stakeholder engagement

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About Gallagher

Our purpose at Gallagher is ‘Protect what matters most’ and we live it every day, whether that’s protecting the world’s highest security environments or agricultural businesses, we care deeply about our people, their families, and our wider communities.

Gallagher Security is on a mission to unlock more value for our customers through the power of our people and solutions - and right now is a pivotal moment in our evolution.

We’re scaling with intent, driving an incredible growth trajectory with innovation and customer impact at the heart of everything we do.

With operations across New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa, the USA, Canada, and Europe and exports to over 140 countries we’re building globally focused career pathways right here in New Zealand.

As we expand our Hamilton-based teams, this is your chance to be part of a true Kiwi tech success story making a global impact.

If you’re driven by passion and purpose to protect what matters most, come help shape the future of what’s possible with us.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Product Owner to champion the platforms and services that enable our engineering teams to deliver world‑class products. Reporting to the Value Stream Lead – Core Modernisation, you’ll define the strategic direction, priorities, and investment decisions for the development tools, shared services, and test environments that underpin product delivery. Working closely with engineering leaders and stakeholders across the business, you’ll ensure platform initiatives are aligned with business objectives, appropriately funded, and delivered at the right time to maximise value alongside customer‑facing product development.

Key responsibilities include

• 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

About You

You’re a strategic and collaborative Product Owner who is passionate about enabling engineering teams through world‑class platform capability. Comfortable navigating both technical and business conversations, you can translate engineering needs into clear priorities, articulate the value of platform investments, and make informed trade‑offs that balance short‑term delivery with long‑term capability. Trusted by engineers and stakeholders alike, you excel at creating alignment, driving clarity, and bringing people together around shared outcomes.

You’ll bring

• 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

Working at Gallagher

At Gallagher, we foster a collaborative, innovative environment where continuous improvement is how we work. This internal opportunity offers the chance to broaden your impact across Core Modernisation, partnering with engineering leaders, architects, quality leaders and other Product Owners. You’ll help give platform and assurance work a clear voice, strengthen the systems our engineering teams depend on, and connect investment decisions to visible value and outcomes.

We also offer

• Competitive salary and bonuses
• Hybrid flexibility (typically 3 days in the office a week, with additional onsite days required depending on work demands)
• KiwiSaver on‑top and Life and Disability insurance
• Mentorship and professional development opportunities
• A supportive team culture with team‑building events, and a fun environment

Growth at Gallagher is constant, and we are building our team with like‑minded individuals who relate to our story so that together we can continue to push the boundaries of what is possible.