Senior Product Owner

Salary: Base salary + bonus negotiable

The role in a nutshell:

• You will maintain a well-defined, prioritised backlog that engineering teams understand, and own prioritisation of the roadmap within the portfolio
• You will act as the bridge between stakeholders and engineering, translating needs into clearly defined outcomes, and providing a “customer voice” to help engineers refine solutions
• You will participate in delivery ceremonies for relevant engineering teams and support their continuous improvement
• You will take a practice-leadership role, helping continuously improve product practices across Plexure, and mentor/coach other product owners
• Your will support the documentation and enablement work needed to launch new capabilities smoothly into BAU operations.

To be successful, you will need:

• You are an experienced product owner, with experience in end-to-end ownership across problem definition, roadmaps, and outcomes.
• You have strong product skills and experience working closely with engineering teams
• You have strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence outside the direct team.
• You have ability to understand technical concepts and to communicate and conceptualise them clearly. This ideally comes ideally with a high-level understanding of software development.

Why should you apply?

• Paid wellness days! You'll get 4 each year + a paid day off in the month of your birthday.
• Ongoing career development and support- Receive ongoing coaching from your manager and a $2,000 yearly training budget to use towards upskilling yourself!
• Work from home allowance - we'll give you a one-off payment of $ 1,000 to help you get set up at home (subject to tax).
• Fully paid health insurance for yourself and discounts for family members (Southern Cross - Wellbeing 2).
• We've got you covered with life insurance and illness or injury income protection too.
• New hospitality benefits - grab a free lunch or dinner in one of Sky City's restaurants up to the value of $300 (twice a year!) + you'll have a monthly credit at TANK.
• Summer hours! If there's nothing pressing left to do on a Friday arvo, finish up at 1:00pm (December - February).
• Free Udemy subscription– choose from more than 200,000 available courses online!
• Mental wellbeing support such as EAP Services.
• Paid volunteering time off – we organise a companywide volunteering day each year.

About our client:
My client, Plexure, is an amazing Saas company founded in NZ in 2010, but that has since expanded to operated globally. They build a customer engagement data platform that integrates with their main customer’s (McDonald’s) mobile app, that they then use to run all of their marketing and loyalty campaigns. Essentially, the backend engine behind McDonald’s mobile app). Plexure are currently working with them in 63 countries and have over 320 million users with them.
They redefine the customer experience and drive results through personalized mobile marketing and next-generation loyalty programs for household names such as McDonald’s. Their industry-leading customer engagement platform has over 300 million users in 65 countries around the globe.
This is a newly created position due to growth, designed to support the Group Product Manager as they step up and out of detailed day-to-day Core product ownership into a broader remit. You will sit alongside an existing internal Product Owner who owns the second portfolio; the 2 roles are intended to develop in parallel and collaborate closely on planning and roadmaps.


How to Apply?
All initial contact for this position is going through XO Recruitment. Please apply by clicking the “apply now” button and submitting your resume.

If this sounds like you or for a confidential discussion about the vacancy and your situation, please contact me on 021 786 160 or email me your CV on [email protected] . If you are interested in this position but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every point in the description above, please get in touch anyway! Our client is about building a diverse and inclusive workplace and recognizes that everyone possesses a unique set of skills, knowledge, experience, and that everybody is different and unique! You may just be the right candidate for this role, or any other we may be recruiting now or in the future.

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