Product Owner - Auckland - 63425 - Spark

General information

Location

Auckland

Expertise

Brand & Marketing, Leadership, Product Development / Management

Job Level

Experienced

Employment Type

Permanent full-time

Close Date

08-Mar-2026

Ref #

63425

Description & Requirements

Spark NZ

As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a kick ass customer focused and results-driven Product Owner to lead a high-performing Agile squad in our Consumer and SME Marketing Tribe. You’ll set a clear 12-month delivery roadmap and drive execution for the squad that delivers real impact. A strong commercial mindset, passion for performance, and the ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders will be key to your success.

This is a unique opportunity for a marketing leader who thrives in complex, cross-functional environments and is ready to drive growth through prioritisation, team leadership and continuous improvement.

Day to day you will be involved in:

Leading squad delivery of work to achieve customer and commercial outcomes each quarter, laddering up to a full year plan
Initially leading a squad focused on a portfolio (ie. Prepaid / Pay Monthly), working in an Agile fashion environment, driving toward targeted outcomes while also driving team engagement.
Working closely with Brand and Marketing Chapter Area Lead and Chapter Leads to translate the 3 year strategy
Planning a 12-month delivery roadmap which supports the Marketing strategy, ensuring its implementation achieves squad outcomes.
Driving a performance mindset in your squad and play a lead role in performance tracking and optimisation.
Prioritising the work the squad is committed to delivering.
A key stakeholder for wider business engagement.
Developing systems and processes (including capacity management) to improve squad effectiveness and efficiency.

What experience you'll bring?

Key to success in this role is your experience in leading marketing work that has effectively impacted customer and commercial metrics. Our ideal candidate would demonstrate:

Marketing and/or Product Owner experience
Commercial acumen, with the ability to balance customer value, business outcomes and ROI in prioritisation decisions.
Squad vision (you may still be ‘on the tools’ sometimes) to step change performance.
Prioritisation skills to optimise greatest return on effort.
Leadership and influencing skills in our Agile environment.
Stakeholder engagement
Analytical skills, to track performance and to understand insights derived from a range of sources

WHY CHOOSE US:

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture.  Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices.  We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.

Sustainability: Toitū

Sustainability is a key focus for us.  We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation.  The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

Benefits: Awhina

Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection.  Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.

Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.

Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.

Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.

Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.

Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

To download the position description, please sign in with your account.