Product Owner

About us

At Vector Technology Solutions (VTS) were on a mission to revolutionise how energy data is managed accessed and usedboth in Aotearoa and around the world.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Vector and working in close partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) were building global cloud-native data platforms that unlock the power of energy information. Our goal is to enable smarter decisions accelerate innovation and create a more sustainable future.

The software we develop empowers energy innovators to address todays most complex energy challengeswhile staying ready for what comes next. We work at the intersection of energy data and digital transformation and were just getting started.

What a typical week will look like:

As a Product Owner at VTS youll help shape and deliver valuable usable and feasible software solutions. Youll act as a bridge between customers engineers and business stakeholdersensuring were solving the right problems and delivering impactful outcomes.

In a typical week you will:

• Lead discovery to deeply understand customer workflows pain points and unmet needs.
• Translate that insight into clear user stories and build-ready backlog items with testable acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams through refinement and sprint planning sessions.
• Define and track outcome-based objectives (OKRs) and success metrics.
• Validate work with customers regularly through demonstrations and testing.
• Keep delivery aligned with strategic priorities while navigating trade-offs with confidence.
• Inspire the team with a compelling product vision providing context around customer needs and desired outcomes.

What you will bring:

Were looking for someone who thrives on solving complex problems brings structure to ambiguity and collaborates with humility.

To succeed in this role you will bring:

• 3 years experience as a Product Owner Product Manager or similar role in enterprise software or digital product environments.
• Proven ability to lead discovery efforts engaging directly with customers to understand and validate problems and solutions.
• Experience working in empowered cross-functional teams (product engineering design) to deliver successful software products.
• Strong analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisions.
• Confidence in defining and communicating OKRs and prioritising delivery for impact.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with the ability to align and inspire teams and stakeholders without relying on authority.

About You:

Youre passionate about solving real-world customer problems and comfortable spending time with both customers and delivery teams.
You:

• Build trust quickly and follow through on your commitments.
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity to complexity.
• Are collaborative curious and humblealways ready to question assumptions including your own.
• Take ownership of outcomes and care deeply about delivering meaningful results.

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

If you require assistance or accessibility support from us during the application and selection process please do get in touch with us on.

Interviews may be held as applications are received so apply today!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time