Platform Product Owner

Company Description
This is a rare opportunity to join a truly entrepreneurial startup environment with highly talented individuals to build the next big digital business in NZ. We are well-funded with support and access to resources from one of NZ's leading companies.

As a hands-on data-driven Product Owner you will play a key part in driving the success of New Zealand’s fastest growing e-commerce marketplace. You will be working with a talented, agile team who are delivery focused and have the business support to build the best shopping experience in the market. You will work cross functionally, collaborating with business stakeholders from all disciplines to understand requirements, UX designers to understand customer impacts, and engineers to deliver feature improvements that really move the needle.

Learn more about TheMarket from its CEO, Justus Wilde in the following video.

**Job Description**:

- Co-develop and manage the product development roadmap across the platform, including mobile, app and desktop.
- Understand the business priorities and align technical resource within the delivery team to execute in line with the strategic direction.
- Support the Product Marketing manager to develop the product and feature vision, and lead the execution with a strong customer-first, mobile-first mindset
- Ensure that all key products built and released by the Engineering team have clear product requirements from the business and are validated by insights and developed with user-centric design.
- Lead the team through the product and feature lifecycle management; from concept to end of life.
- Ensure the consumer product team’s time is oriented towards the tasks that will deliver the greatest customer and business benefit across platform development, UX, CRO, Taxonomy and Search optimisation, as well as product data evolution.
- Manage the execution of 3rd party platform integrations.
- Work alongside the other Product Owners to constantly improve our ways of working, practices and tools.

**Qualifications**:

- Tertiary qualification with a degree in a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Prior experience as a product owner in an e-commerce or digital business
- Experience working in a B2C environment, delivering with a customer centric mindset
- Strong technical skills with the ability to relate to the engineering team, understand technical problems and bounce ideas to find a pragmatic way forward
- Strong analytical, planning and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability in being data and empathy driven
- Strong JIRA or other ticket management experience (setting up boards, filters, reporting, etc
- SCRUM certification or Product Owner certification is a bonus.

**The right type of person for this role**
- You thrive on detail and have a strong sense of responsibility to develop clear requirements and highly efficient processes.
- You're an excellent communicator with the ability to share ideas simply and clearly and translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
- You ruthlessly prioritise and will champion our values.
- You’re a natural collaborator.
- Whilst you have grounded AGILE skills, you’re adaptable to manage multiple priorities.
- You're motivated, energetic, and action-oriented and inspire others.
- Pragmatic straight shooter that will thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Strong desire to build something great, and thrive on overcoming the challenges to get there

Additional Information**
Why work for us?**
- Work within an agile team developing new exciting features in e-commerce, driving convenience for millions of kiwi shoppers
- Be a part of a supportive team, who are invested in the each other succeeding
- Be encouraged to grow and take on more responsibilities to improve and advance in your career path
- Get dedicated time and training resources for professional development, and support to grow in your areas of interest
- Flexible work environment with two days a week from home and flexible working hours

Our company culture is laid back but energised with a group of innovative and driven people that are focused on creating the next frontier for retail in New Zealand.