CLOSED Position:

Product Owner

Propellerhead is a leading software services company that designs, delivers, and maintains large-scale, custom-built digital platforms across a range of technologies. We place emphasis on producing technology which is meaningful, has value, and can make a difference in the world. We foster long lasting and trusting relationships with all our clients, and we have worked with a diverse range of commercial, non-profit, and government organisations over our 20 years in the market.

How We Build Software:

We build software by structuring solutions in a product-centric manner and focusing on continuously delivering improvements from a backlog of features. These features are taken from real stakeholder needs linked to clear objectives. As a result, our digital platforms are a mixture of custom components and external services which produce a powerful and engaging experience when combined.

Propellerhead operates a hybrid working model (enjoy working from our office and/or from your own home). This role is Auckland based, with office attendance required on our team in-person collaboration days. 

The Role:

As a Product Owner at Propellerhead, your primary purpose will be to ensure clarity on the next most valuable thing to deliver. This is a client-facing role, important to maintaining long-term relationships with our customers through continuous high-value delivery. As such, you will work closely with internal and client stakeholders to ensure both functional and commercial objectives are met.

Key Accountabilities:

• Product Backlog Management: Build and groom the product backlog, ensuring it contains appropriate items, prioritised effectively, and that items at the top are ready for delivery.

• Communication: Clearly communicate product backlog items to the product delivery team to build a shared understanding of the problems and solutions.

• Delivery Constraints: Ensure delivery teams work solely on funded backlog items, constraining product delivery as necessary.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with stakeholders to create and prioritise valuable product deliverables with clear, measurable outcomes.

• Scope Management: Manage scope to deliver maximum value, while ensuring efficient use of resources.

• Outcome Determination: Evaluate whether a product deliverable achieved the desired outcome, making necessary adjustments based on feedback and results.

• Team Coordination: Keep product delivery teams informed of upcoming work and broadly communicate relevant context and problems faced to build a shared understanding of the product direction.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a software development environment.

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and principles.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks effectively.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience working with stakeholders to define and prioritise product features.

• Familiarity with product management tools and software.

Benefits

• Be part of an innovative world-class team, with a culture of learning and collaboration.

• Contribute to interesting, diverse, and commercially minded work for well-respected clients.

• Opportunity for professional growth and development.

• Fortnightly knowledge sharing sessions, with lunch.

• Competitive salary. Employee Share Purchase Scheme offering.

• This role is Auckland based, some office attendance is required. Work within our beautifully designed office and/or from home (hybrid working model).

• Propellerhead is an equal opportunity workplace which is free from discrimination.

Cover Letter:

Please note - only applications with a cover letter will be reviewed. It's very important to us that you submit a cover letter with your application - it's your chance to tell us more about who you are and what you value.

Please Note:

Accredited Employer:

We have recently become an Accredited Employer with Immigration New Zealand. This means that if you’re not from New Zealand and want to move here and work for us, you can apply for the Talent Work Visa. These visas are easier to get, are often much faster, and are a direct path to residency.

In-Person Interview

The final stage of our interview process is an in-person interview, and if you make it to this stage, it’s essential that we meet you in person.

If your application is successful, we will require you to travel to meet with us. This will be the final stage in your interview process, and if selected, you'll then receive an offer from us shortly after your interview. You will either need to travel to New Zealand to meet with us, or meet with our recruitment team in Europe in 2023.

Cover Letter

It's critically important that you submit a cover letter with your application - we cannot progress your application without one. It needs to be at least 200 words, and is your chance to tell us more about who you are and what you value. This is very important to us.

Moving to New Zealand

We’ve collated information about Propellerhead and moving to New Zealand here.