Senior Product Owner - 12 months Fixed Term

Senior Product Owner - 12 months Fixed Term

Trade Me | Listed 3 days ago

Listing Description

Location: Wellington, Wellington

Job type: Full time

Duration: Contract

Company benefits: At Trade Me we encourage you to keep learning

Description

These are critical leadership roles and key customer and product advocates in Product Engineering teams. By taking strong ownership of the outcome, you'll ensure teams are working on the right thing, leading key trade-off decisions based on value and impact and are accountable for delivering the outcomes and shifting the metrics we care about most. To achieve this, you will work closely with teams to prioritise and refine the roadmap and backlog, identify and manage dependencies and maintain the robust health, resilience and stability of our systems.

Here's what you can expect from the roles:

• Strike the balance between value, viability, feasibility and usability and be accountable for the short-term roadmap and committed outcomes of the product’s delivery.
• Work with the product management and technical leadership teams to identify the most valuable pieces of work, prioritise them, and slice them to optimise for the first customer feedback loop.
• Lead the effort to define quarterly story-maps and OKRs to build alignment between high-level strategy and day-to-day engineering team.
• Create, refine and maintain a robust, adequately resourced Epic backlog.
• Lead release change management including customer adoption/rollout planning and both internal and external engagement and communication around the change.
• Build a strong understanding of our customers’ experience using our services day to day and bring the voice of the customer to prioritisation decisions.
• Align expectations by keeping the sponsors, wider stakeholder and customer groups informed and engaged with the changes happening to your platforms to ensure good governance and support.
• Work with Engineering managers and technical leaders to strike the right balance between Product delivery and Platform maintenance.
• Advocate for customer experience by identifying and prioritising small and continuous improvements.
• Adhere to Agile principles.

What you will bring to our team:

• 5+ years experience leading Product Engineering teams to deliver great outcomes, good understanding of product, design & engineering practices with knowledge of web & mobile technologies.
• Experienced in working in an agile development environment with a good understanding of Agile ways of working.
• A proven track record of successfully developing flexible value driven product roadmaps to clarify where we are going, taking ownership of outcomes, defining opportunities and delivering measurable results.
• Familiarity with technology and engineering concepts to form a common language with engineering leaders.
• Experienced using outcome based metrics to measure the impact of change.
• Results-oriented with demonstrated ability to deliver great outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• A great team player and collaborator, able to form strong relationships and get the best out of people.
• An outstanding communicator - able to explain ideas simply & clearly, listen carefully to others, and proactively improve team communication. Confident in communicating to stakeholders, customers and consumers.
• Highly organised, with great planning and facilitation skills.
• Energy, drive and enthusiasm for excellent results and a genuine desire to help engage and motivate other team/squad members.
• Exceptional proficiency in risk management and robust decision-making based on risk assessment.
• Advanced analytical, technical and creative reasoning and an extensive toolkit of problem solving techniques.
• Mentors and guides others in product ownership tools and practices.
• Identify where product ownership practices require uplift and recommend and implement improvements.
• Confident using collaborative tools to clarify work scope, sizing, trade offs, dependencies and other planning considerations. (e.g. Miro, LucidChart, Jira).

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you’re excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you.

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwis to create the life they want. Whether it’s the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwis look first.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

Apply online for this role or contact careers@trademe.co.nz for more information.

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