Product Owner

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Vector NZ Full time

Product Owner
- Full-time
- Engagement type: Permanent - Employee
- Department: Vector Technology Solutions (VTS)

**About Us**
We’re a team on a mission to revolutionise the way energy data is managed, accessed, and used globally. The software we build aims to liberate the energy information crucial to energy innovation.

At VTS, we’re big enough to solve real problems and small enough to have the dynamic feel of a start-up. It’s the perfect combination and means the excitement never fades.

If you are curious and crave the energy of a start-up but are also looking for the support found at bigger companies, then VTS could be the perfect place for you. Vector has been around for 100 years, and today we are more innovative than ever, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to help create a new energy future.

**About the role**

As a Product Owner, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving our initiatives from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with customer needs and strategic goals throughout the product delivery lifecycle.

Your duties will include:

- Identifying and communicating specific, measurable OKRs for the initiative
- Representing the Voice of the Customer, including leading discovery, requirements gathering and acceptance of what is delivered.
- Collaborating closely with VTS engineers, domain experts and others to refine high level requirements into build-ready work and testable acceptance criteria.
- Building and maintaining a prioritised backlog of build-ready work for the initiative
- Reporting on initiative issues, risks and dependencies as necessary

As a valued member of the VTS Product practice you will also:

- Help shape the Diverge product roadmap.
- Utilise metrics to gauge product and company performance.
- Participate in driving the Diverge product strategy forward, seeking product-market fit, analyzing competitors and staying ahead of industry trends.

**Who we are looking for**
We’re in search of a highly skilled and motivated Product Owner with the following experience:

- Demonstrable results in past roles as a Product Owner in an Enterprise or software product company
- Product Delivery experience in Scaled Agile environments Scrum ways of working, clear definition and refinement of Epics and User Stories, demonstrated effectiveness managing conflicting priorities and customer requirements
- Demonstrated experience in customer-facing roles with activities such as product discovery work, business process analysis and relationship-building.
- Domain experience and/or active interest preferred in electrification, smart metering, electricity distribution, electrical engineering, cloud native software development preferred.

**What we can offer you**
We love working together to create a new energy future. If you want to be part of an organisation with a real and tangible purpose, Vector could be the place for you.
We offer:

- A fun, flexible and stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart and innovative people.
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life.
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits that reflect the importance of family.

Vector engages a workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far
- First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
- First Accessibility Tick employer
- Rainbow Tick accredited
- Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.


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