When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy
Watercare is the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand, providing more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. Now is an exciting time to join Watercare; we're planning to spend $18.5 billion over the next 20 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. This translates to an investment of $2.5 million every day.
We ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of everything that we do to help protect our water resources for future generations. We are continuously focused on how we can reduce our carbon footprint with initiatives like solar panels, electric cars, revegetation programmes, and much more. We aim to make a positive difference.
Role Overview The Product Owner is responsible for developing ambitious, compelling products, maximizing the value of the product and the work of the development team by bringing together users and stakeholders. This role requires a deep understanding of customers, digital opportunities, Watercare's value proposition for its products, and the technology context and strategy required to differentiate those products in the marketplace.
Key Responsibilities Provides leadership and develops and maintains a product vision and market strategy.
Ensures business change planning, impact assessment, and business change execution activities occur in relation to the product.
Continuously gathers feedback from and sets expectations with relevant stakeholders.
Supports squads by clarifying and prioritizing work during sprints.
Uses data/analytics/user research to make decisions and find incremental improvements in existing processes and activities to build product features.
Reports on work delivery performance in terms of business outcomes, capabilities, and risk mitigation.
Drives real-time measurement across the pulse of digital and the product delivery organization.
Produces, defines, and manages the full product roadmap for products within the agreed business domain.
Analyzes and maintains the roadmap to ensure products deliver the digital benefits and vision captured in the digital journey maps.
Maintains the product feature backlog and ensures it aligns with release objectives and the roadmap.
Proactively prioritizes features and stories for sprint and release planning.
Defines and refines the backlog of features and stories for the next 3-6 months.
Develops and enhances ways of working and product owner practices across Watercare.
Fosters a high-performance team culture that drives engagement of all team members.
Keeps all stakeholders informed, resulting in reduced escalations and backlogs.
Demonstrates excellent leadership skills, communicating clear strategy and purpose.
Has proven experience using agile project management methods.
Demonstrates sound judgment and is comfortable balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity.
Has hands-on experience working within and collaborating in an agile environment.
Possesses strong facilitation skills, presenting technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
Has a sound understanding of the digital landscape, open source technologies, and modern practices around continuous deployment.
Exhibits a passion for driving teams towards high performance.
Possesses exceptional communication skills, able to utilize storytelling techniques to communicate the product vision.
What We Offer We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
Hybrid/flexible work environment
Training and development opportunities
Life and income protection insurance plans
Generous parental leave
Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
On-site free gym
Discounted Wilson car parking
How to Apply Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team, please apply online today at .
Reference #: 36136
Posted on: 12 Nov 2024
Closes on: 29 Nov 2024 09:00
Location(s): Newmarket
Expertise: Information Systems & Communication Technology
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