Associate Product Owner (Integration)

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Mālō e lelei, Bula Vinaka

At ASB, we’re here to help our customers get one step ahead. Behind that purpose is a team of curious, courageous people who care deeply about delivering better experiences—every day.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Product Owner to join our Integration Platform, where you’ll help shape and deliver services that power critical customer and business outcomes across ASB.

Mo te tūranga | About the role

As an Associate Product Owner, you’ll play a key role in leading the delivery of service and experience outcomes within your squad.

You’ll translate customer and business needs into a clear, prioritised backlog—enabling consistent, high-quality delivery. Working closely with engineering, design, and stakeholders, you’ll use data and insight to continuously evolve and improve the experiences we deliver.

This is a role where you’ll balance strategy and execution—connecting long-term platform direction with day-to-day delivery.

In this role, you will also lead an integration-focused squad within the I&I Platform, owning delivery across API, event streaming and middleware. You’ll be accountable for outcomes across service, technology and process.

Core scope

• API platforms (Kong, Domain and Public APIs)
• Event streaming (Kafka, Confluent Cloud)
• Middleware (BizTalk and legacy integration)

Key focus

• Drive migration from legacy middleware (BizTalk) to modern integration patterns
• Lead adoption of event-driven, cloud-native and containerised platforms
• Shape the roadmap for Temporal, Confluent Cloud and cloud API platforms

Ngā mea ka mahia e koe | What you’ll do

• Define and evolve service improvement roadmaps aligned to platform and tribe priorities
• Lead the delivery of outcomes that are safe, compliant, and operationally stable
• Drive squad decision-making—removing blockers, resolving issues, and maintaining delivery momentum
• Champion customer and business value, ensuring outcomes meet real needs
• Own prioritisation—balancing trade-offs to achieve the best outcomes
• Partner with Product, Design and Engineering to lead discovery, test ideas and validate solutions
• Align stakeholders across business and technology to ensure clarity and shared understanding
• Identify and manage risks and compliance requirements early and effectively
• Maintain a healthy, prioritised backlog that supports meaningful outcomes
• Enable strong squad performance and contribute to agile maturity and continuous improvement

Technical depth

• API-led and event-driven architecture
• Kafka and streaming platforms
• Cloud-native technologies, containers (Kubernetes) and CI/CD
• Resilience, security and observability practices

Ō pūkenga | What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone who is both outcome-focused and collaborative, with a strong ability to connect people, insights, and delivery.

You’ll Bring

• Experience in product, service delivery, or agile environments
• Experience owning or contributing to integration platforms or services
• Hands-on exposure to integration technologies (APIs, Kafka, middleware)
• Experience contributing to modernisation or cloud transformation initiatives
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capability
• Confidence influencing and aligning stakeholders
• A customer-first mindset, supported by data and insight
• An understanding of risk, compliance, and operational considerations
• Experience working with cross-functional squads (engineering, design, product)
• An ability to balance short-term delivery with longer-term platform evolution

Te mahi ki ASB | Working for ASB

At ASB, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work.

We’re guided by our values of Care, Courage and Curiosity, and we’re committed to helping our people grow—whether that’s through meaningful work, development opportunities, or simply being part of a great team.

Me pēhea te tono | How to apply

If you’re passionate about delivering better experiences, working collaboratively, and making an impact—we’d love to hear from you.