Senior Product Owner

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi 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 Kiwi look first.

We're looking for two Senior Product Owners; one for Trade Me Property based in either Auckland or Wellington and one for Trade Me Jobs based in Christchurch, Auckland or Wellington.

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 user experience of your product portfolio.

Here is what you can expect from this role:

• 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 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 teams.
• Create, refine and maintain a robust, adequately-resourced 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.

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.
• Experienced working in an Agile development environment.
• 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.
• Experienced in using outcome-based metrics to measure the impact of change.

Critical Competencies:

• Results-oriented with demonstrated ability to deliver great outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage complexity, deal with a high level of uncertainty, and make decisions with information at hand.
• An outstanding communicator - able to explain ideas simply & clearly, listen carefully to others, and proactively improve team communication.
• 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.
• Advanced analytical, technical and creative reasoning and an extensive toolkit of problem solving techniques.
• Mentors and guides others in product ownership tools and practices.

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:

#Flexibility: Flexible working is the new normal. We have a guideline for our people to be in the office 60% of the time, with the remaining time being flexible. We support you with a home office setup and a utilities allowance to ensure you can work comfortably.

#Leave: We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.

#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, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.

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".