Lead Product Owner - Data & Analytics

About the Role

At ASB Bank, delivering trusted, secure, and accessible data is essential to supporting our customers' journey to being "One Step Ahead." We are seeking a seasoned Lead Product Owner to join our Data & Analytics Platform leadership team based in Auckland. This role offers the chance to lead multiple squads and product domains while steering enterprise-wide data priorities and delivering platforms, services, and products that drive analytics, AI, regulatory reporting, and enhanced customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain strategic, outcome-driven multi-year roadmaps aligned with Data & Analytics Platform goals and broader enterprise objectives.
• Translate the platform’s strategic vision into prioritized initiatives, epics, and delivery objectives across multiple teams.
• Guide and coordinate Product Owners and squads to successfully deliver customer, business, technology, and operational results.
• Manage alignment between delivery teams, handling dependencies, trade-offs, risks, and potential escalations.
• Take ownership of service, technological, and process outcomes including delivery reliability, operational resilience, controls, and ongoing platform health.
• Support creation and enhancement of trusted data products, self-service analytics, and modern data platform services throughout the bank.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, engineering, security, risk, and business stakeholders to define and evolve platform capabilities and delivery priorities.
• Ensure governance, compliance, risk management, and control measures are adhered to across the relevant domains.
• Maintain stakeholder engagement and confidence in delivery outcomes across all teams.
• Develop and mentor Product Owners to elevate the overall product management capability within the platform.
• Promote a culture centered on data-driven insights, customer focus, and outcome-oriented delivery.

About You

• Experienced product leader with strong expertise in managing technology, data, analytics, or digital product environments.
• Proven ability to lead multiple squads, product domains, or delivery streams within complex, large-scale organisations.
• In-depth knowledge of modern data and analytics platforms, cloud technologies, data products, and AI-driven solutions.
• Successful track record in developing comprehensive roadmaps and converting strategic objectives into tangible outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills including interaction with senior leadership and decision makers.
• Experience coaching and mentoring Product Owners or similar roles to enhance team performance.
• Adept at balancing diverse requirements such as customer needs, business goals, risk management, and technical considerations.
• Strong commercial acumen with understanding of value realization, prioritization, and investment trade-offs.
• Familiarity with Agile product delivery methodologies and outcome-based planning practices.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving strengths.
• Experience in regulated or governance-heavy environments emphasizing risk, controls, and operational durability.
• Passion for emerging technologies including AI, automation, and data-driven innovation.

Working at ASB

Join a purpose-driven organisation dedicated to improving financial wellbeing in New Zealand. Engage with strategic data and technology projects while collaborating with talented colleagues in product, engineering, architecture, risk, and business. We champion diversity, encourage innovation, and invest in professional development. Our workplace is defined by values of Care, Courage, and Curiosity demonstrated daily by our team.