Digital Product Owner Lead

Have meaningful impact as a Digital Product Owner Lead - Consumer.

Join the largest general insurance group in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.

**Mō te Tūranga | About the Role**

Shape the Future as Our Digital Product Owner Lead

Join us on an exciting journey of transformation as one of our Digital Product Owner Leads and take the helm of a new and dynamic team that’s redefining digital experiences in New Zealand.

This isn’t just another job—it’s an opportunity to be at the forefront of our company’s evolution. We’re on a mission to reimagine how our brands stand out in the digital landscape. With our digital and data teams at the core of this transformation, you’ll have the creative freedom to lead initiatives that make a significant impact on our customers, driving seamless, low-effort experiences that truly set us apart.

As the Digital Product Owner Lead, you will manage squad backlogs, ensuring they align with strategic objectives. Collaborating with core partners, you’ll refine and prioritise tasks to achieve optimal outcomes. You will develop and execute delivery plans, overseeing resource allocation, financial forecasting, schedule management, and risk mitigation to ensure your squad meets its milestones.

Leading agile practices, you’ll foster a culture of continuous improvement, helping your squad grow in agile maturity and high-performance delivery. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements, manage interdependencies, and ensure seamless collaboration across squads and portfolios. Providing regular updates on progress, risks, and spend against cost/benefits, you’ll ensure transparency using tools like SharePoint, JIRA, and Confluence.

Finally, you will oversee initiative close-out activities, including post-implementation reviews and handovers to business-as-usual operations, ensuring a smooth transition and long-term success.

This is a permanent full-time position with hybrid working conditions, available at any of our IAG offices across New Zealand, with a preference for those located in Auckland.

**Ōu Pūkenga | About You**

We’re excited to engage with skilled professionals who possess the following expertise and experience:
**Digital Leadership**: Proven experience in digital program delivery and project management, with a strong understanding of Agile methodology or SCRUM certification.

**Strategic Insight**: Strong commercial acumen and a demonstrated ability to manage complexity, navigate ambiguity, and respond to change.

**Team Excellence**:Experience leading high-performance matrix teams, with exceptional influencing skills and a track record of building collaborative partnerships across various levels of the organisation.

**Continuous Improvement**: A passion for fostering a continuous improvement environment, with a focus on delivering key programs of work that align with agile methodologies.

Applications close Thursday, 29 August 2024 at 11:59pm.

**Mō mātou| About us**

IAG is the largest general insurance group in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. We’re also a tech and research facility, a hub for climate change experts and a centre of resilience design. We chat over coffee with customers, advocate for them in the corridors of Parliament and back them up in the community when life’s moments hit hardest.

You’ll know our brands - AMI, NZI, State Insurance, NRMA Insurance, CGU, WFI and ROLLiN’ to name a few. Together they turn our IAG purpose of making your world safer into action by helping, supporting ambitions and making insurance accessible.

We acknowledge Tāngata Whenua in Aotearoa and are committed to growing Māori prosperity and well-being in Aotearoa through He Rautaki Māori (IAG’s Māori Strategy).

We celebrate unique viewpoints shaped by life experiences, cultures and passions. We expand careers, genuinely connect with community, lead with a powerful purpose and celebrate what makes you individual.

We're passionate about social issues, walk the talk on sustainability and strive to do more than standard on things that matter, including women in senior leadership, Indigenous empowerment and creating inclusive environments. We’re proud to be an accredited family-friendly workplace and are committed to being a safe and supportive space for all our employees. We do this because we’re ready for you.

All this shows up in what we offer:

- Boost your financial future with 4% KiwiSaver employer contribution and life insurance as standard
- Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance
- Annual $500 wellbeing fund
- Flexibility through our MyFlex program - supporting you to live life to the full
- Grow your skills and career development with the IAG Academy program

Learn more about who IAG is here.