Intermediate Product Owner

In Trade Me Payments we've got our sights set on big things. The Payment product owner role is an integral part of moving our aspirations into reality, working with the product team and our delivery teams to make our vision real. A product owner's ability to plan, explain, analyse and put things into action is vital to our success. **This is 6 months fixed term parental leave cover** ** Here is what you can expect from this role:** * Curate the present to 3 month product roadmap for the Ping product and ensure that work aligns and drives our longer term roadmap goals forward * Empower high performance from the Pinguin squads by ensuring they have full context to the reason behind their work along with the benefits seen from their output * Contribute throughout the product delivery life cycle, ensure that squads understand the intent, scope and business value of the work they are doing and how it contributes to our strategy * Identify and actively manage dependencies, engaging with others to understand and agree impacts and trade-offs up front * Own the squad's backlog and be accountable for it content and sequencing, ensuring work is appropriately prioritised to release rapid, incremental value to our customers and business * Work with the Pinguin squad and their stakeholders to create quality user stories * Complete in depth analysis of upcoming work, understanding potential solutions and outcomes in order to translate it into user stories and drive change management requirements * Monitor, measure and evaluate success of changes made to products and take any required actions based on this data * Ensure squad work is aligned to strategy and be able to pivot should the market or strategic objectives change * Build an understanding of our customers' experience using our services day to day and bring the voice of the customer to decisions **What you will bring to our team:** * A high achiever with 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, or similar roles such as Business Analyst * Hands-on experience experimenting with AI tools, and a natural curiosity to weave them into your everyday work. * Experienced in working in an agile development environment with a good understanding of agile practices and 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, define opportunities and delivering measurable results * Demonstrable experience of managing a wide variety of business relationships including stakeholder and external partners * Experienced using outcome based metrics to measure the impact of change * 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 You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why: **#AI and Tech:** We live and breathe AI in our daily tasks. We value curiosity and an open mind towards new tech, offering dedicated AI skilling to help you grow and thrive in a fast-changing landscape.** #Flexibility:** Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week. **#Wellness:** Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way. **#Social:** Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more. **#Learning:** Whether it's on the job, formal training, or mentoring, you'll grow with us from Day 1. We're big on internal mobility and look to our own talent first for new opportunities. 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 so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why". Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.