Senior Technical Product Owner - Motors

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.

The Senior Product Owner is a critical leadership role and key customer and product advocate in Trade Me Motor’s Product Engineering teams (squad). By taking strong ownership of the outcome, they will 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, they 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 is what you can expect from this role:

• Drive Strategic Outcomes: Partner with Product and squad leadership to define OKRs, balancing product and engineering work to deliver on short-term roadmaps
• Identify & Drive Value: Identify opportunities, articulate initiatives, and drive customer and business value
• The Ultimate Bridge: Act as the central point of contact between business stakeholders and engineering squads, maximising product value while mitigating delivery risks
• Big-Picture Focus: Maintain a holistic view of business goals, ensuring the squad's work aligns with strategy and remaining agile enough to pivot as market conditions change
• End-to-End Backlog Accountability: Own the creation, refinement, sequencing, and prioritisation of the product backlog to ensure rapid, incremental value for customers
• Value vs. Feasibility: Strike the critical balance between product value, business viability, technical feasibility, and user experience
• Voice of the Customer: Build a deep understanding of the customer experience, fiercely advocating for their needs in all prioritisation and lifecycle decisions
• High-Visibility Communication: Maintain absolute transparency on priorities, risks and trade-offs for senior leaders and sponsors using roadmapping tools

What you will bring to our team:

• 5+ Years of Product Leadership: Proven experience leading Product Engineering teams to deliver high-impact outcomes
• AI-Forward Mindset: Hands-on experience experimenting with AI tools and a natural curiosity to weave them into your everyday product workflow to drive efficiency
• Agile & Roadmap Expertise: A track record of developing flexible, value-driven product roadmaps, taking full ownership of outcomes and navigating agile environments
• Data & Metric Driven: Experienced in using outcome-based metrics to measure the impact of change and prove business value
• Practice Uplift & Mentorship: Ability to mentor others in product ownership tools, identifying gaps in current practices to recommend and implement process improvements
• Advanced Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical, technical, and creative reasoning skills, backed by an extensive toolkit of problem-solving techniques
• Outstanding Stakeholder Communicator: An elite communicator who can simplify complex ideas, listen deeply, and confidently engage with stakeholders, customers, and consumers alike

#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.

#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, 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.

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