Product Owner: Data-Driven Impact & Delivery (Hybrid)

New Zealand Post; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

Health insurance discounts

Discounted holiday home rates

Retail discounts

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

New Zealand Post is seeking a Product Owner to convert customer, business, and operational challenges into measurable outcomes. You will partner with a cross-functional team, align priorities and deliver value across data capabilities used by millions of interactions in Aotearoa.

This hybrid role is based in Auckland (Highbrook) or Wellington (CBD), working with a modern Data & Technology product practice and a focus on customer-centric outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Product Analyst or similar in an agile environment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to build trusted relationships across technical and business teams.
• Ability to translate complex problems into clear priorities and actionable outcomes.
• Customer-first mindset and a passion for creating value.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Growth mindset and a desire to continuously learn and improve.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to understand customer, business and operational challenges and help explore problems, test assumptions and shape potential solutions.
• Maintaining and refining a product backlog that reflects strategic priorities, customer needs and business outcomes.
• Breaking down complex problems into clear, testable and deliverable increments that maximise learning and value delivery.
• Collaborating closely with engineers, quality engineers and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes through iterative and agile ways of working.
• Making informed trade-off decisions that balance customer value, business needs, technical considerations and delivery constraints.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile

Stakeholder management

Prioritization

Data-driven decisions

Job description

New Zealand Post is seeking a Product Owner to convert customer, business, and operational challenges into measurable outcomes. You will partner with a cross-functional team, align priorities and deliver value across data capabilities used by millions of interactions in Aotearoa.

This hybrid role is based in Auckland (Highbrook) or Wellington (CBD), working with a modern Data & Technology product practice and a focus on customer-centric outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.