Product Manager
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Job Location:
Wellington - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Us Mō mātou
Our public service is being called upon to deliver a unified seamless and effective digital experience for all New Zealanders. As a member of Digital Services/Te Pūnaha Matihikoyou will help champion this change. We are seeking a Product Manager with vision and influence to help drive a strong successful and connected digital public sector.
The Digital Services branch works across the public service to connect influence and support the system to take advantage of new digital opportunities. It also supports the Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO) to drive the governments digital transformation and position government to succeed in a changing and evolving digital age.
The role Te tūnga
As a Product Manager you will take ownership of product development priorities for one or more digital products that are widely used system assets. You will provide highquality strategic and tactical advice to shape product vision strategy and roadmaps ensuring alignment with business objectives user needs and allofgovernment priorities.
You will work closely with a dedicated vendor and/or internal crossfunctional teams in an Agile environment to lead product delivery from concept through to release and continuous improvement. This includes championing service performance availability and resilience while embedding customercentric datainformed decisionmaking into product development and maintenance.
The role requires strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to identify priorities manage dependencies balance competing demands and ensure alignment across complex multisystem and multivendor environments. You will also proactively identify risks and mitigations to ensure digital products remain trusted safe secure and fit for purpose.
What you bring Nōu te rourou
- Proven product leadership experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager delivering digital products using Agile methodologies (Kanban and/or Scrum)
- Strategic product thinking demonstrated ability to define and deliver product strategies and roadmaps within complex multisystem and multivendor environments
- Strong digital capability deep understanding of digital technologies content channels and how emerging technology can improve user experiences
- Customer and dataled decisionmaking ability to balance user insight analytics and business outcomes to drive prioritisation and recommendations
- Influential stakeholder engagement strong relationshipbuilding skills with experience working across vendors internal teams and central agencies
- Delivery focus and resilience ability to work at pace manage competing priorities identify risks and deliver pragmatic solutions to complex problems
For you Mōu
At the Department of Internal Affairs we are committed to offering a collaborative and innovative culture where your perspective and ideas will be welcomed. We want our people to thrive within a culture of best practice while being able to set and achieve goals and being encouraged to challenge the status quo.
To learn more about the diverse important mahi we do at the Department and see whywerea great placeto work check out our website -About Internal Affairs - Careers with us - Benefits -
The appointing range for this role$117734 $130815with the potential to appoint higher depending on level of experience.
How to apply Me pēhea te tuku tono
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Werecommitted to ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. Please let us know if there is anysupportwe can provide to ensure the process is accessible to you.
Applications for this role close Monday 13 April 2026 5.00pm.
Please note thatNew Zealand citizenship isrequired along with the ability to obtain andmaintainConfidential security clearance to be considered for this role.
If you have any questions please e-mailManager Product Management and Change Rex Drummond
To review the full job description pleaseclick here.
Required Experience:
IC
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About Company
At the Department of Internal Affairs, the work we do makes New Zealand a better place for those born here, and those new New Zealanders who have chosen to call this country home.
