Senior Product Lead - Integration

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Wellington/Auckland based opportunity
Fixed Term Contract – 24 Months
Banking benefits, additional wellbeing days of leave and more!
Please read (role level): The Senior Product Lead role sits within the following Product career path at Kiwibank: Product Lead > Sr Product Lead > Product Manager > Senior Product Manager > Head of

Kō tātou tēnei. Hei kawe i ngā mahi kia tutuki | This is us. Where making an impact matters.

At Kiwibank, we are undergoing a significant digital transformation, and we need a seasoned Senior Product Lead for one of our Frontline Lending integration squads.

This squad focuses on integrating and transforming data across multiple systems, developing and deploying APIs, and maintaining key databases to support lending operations and reporting.

Your role as Senior Product Lead will be pivotal in ensuring the squad is set up to succeed, so experience leading a development squad is essential as you'll need to hit the ground running.

Day to day this could include:
Backlog management – prioritise and refine the product backlog to ensure our team focuses on high-impact initiatives.
Gathering and shaping user stories and acceptance criteria for refinement with your squad(s)
Leading product discovery and presenting back options that both, align with Technology strategy, and support the business to achieve their desired outcome
Agile Leadership – maintain and enhance Agile practices within the squad, facilitating sprint planning, reviews, refinement etc. to ensure efficient and effective development cycles.
Stakeholder Communications – act as the primary liaison between the development squad and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of product vision, progress, and challenges.
Strategic Planning – support the Product Manager in defining the product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
Clearly articulating the 'why' of prioritised work, and how this will achieve measurable progress towards objectives.