Lead Product Owner - Data & Analytics

At ASB, we're all about helping our customers get "One Step Ahead".

Data is at the heart of that ambition. Every insight, decision, and customer experience relies on trusted, secure, and accessible data.

We're looking for an experienced Lead Product Owner to join ASB's Data & Analytics Platform leadership team and help shape the future of our enterprise data capabilities.

This is a unique opportunity to lead across multiple squads and product domains, influence enterprise-wide priorities, and help deliver the data platforms, products, and services that enable analytics, AI, regulatory reporting, and customer outcomes across the bank.

Te tūranga | The role

As a Lead Product Owner, you'll work closely with the Platform Lead, Product Owners, engineering leaders, architects, and senior stakeholders to define and deliver a multi-year roadmap for a portfolio of Data & Analytics Platform services.

You will own the outcomes for your area of responsibility, translating Platform strategy into clear priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans while ensuring squads remain aligned to customer, business, technology, risk, and operational objectives.

This role combines strategic thinking, product leadership, people development, governance, and delivery accountability. You'll play a key role in building a strong product culture while helping Product Owners and squads perform at their best.

You'll Be Responsible For

• Defining and maintaining outcome-led, multi-year roadmaps aligned to Data & Analytics Platform priorities and enterprise objectives.
• Translating Platform strategy into prioritised initiatives, epics, and delivery outcomes across multiple squads.
• Leading and aligning Product Owners and squads to deliver agreed customer, business, technology, and operational outcomes.
• Driving delivery alignment and managing dependencies, trade-offs, risks, and escalations across product domains and delivery teams.
• Owning service, technology, and process outcomes across your area of focus, including delivery predictability, operational resilience, controls, and run health.
• Supporting the delivery of trusted data products, self-service analytics capabilities, and modern data platform services across ASB.
• Partnering with architecture, engineering, security, risk, and business stakeholders to shape future platform capabilities and delivery priorities.
• Ensuring governance, compliance, risk management, and control obligations are consistently met across your domain.
• Managing stakeholder alignment and maintaining confidence in delivery outcomes across business and technology teams.
• Developing, coaching, and mentoring Product Owners while building strong product management capability across the Platform.
• Championing a data-driven, customer-focused, and outcome-led culture across squads and stakeholder groups.

Ō pūkenga | About you

You'll be an experienced product leader who understands that great platform products and services are critical enablers of business success.

You thrive in complex environments, can navigate ambiguity, and bring people together around a common purpose. You'll be comfortable balancing customer outcomes, business priorities, technical sustainability, risk considerations, and delivery constraints to make confident and pragmatic decisions.

You'll Also Bring

• Significant experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, or product leadership within a technology, data, analytics, or digital environment.
• Experience leading multiple squads, product domains, or delivery streams in a large and complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of modern data and analytics platforms, cloud technologies, data products, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Proven experience developing long-term roadmaps and translating strategic intent into measurable outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience engaging with senior leaders and decision-makers.
• Demonstrated success coaching, developing, and mentoring Product Owners or equivalent roles.
• Experience balancing customer needs, business priorities, risk requirements, and technical considerations.
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of value realisation, prioritisation, and investment trade-offs.
• Deep understanding of Agile delivery, modern product practices, and outcome-based planning.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving capability.
• Experience working in highly governed or regulated environments where risk management, controls, and operational resilience are essential.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, including AI, automation, and data-driven innovation.

Working at ASB

At ASB, you'll be part of a purpose-driven organisation committed to helping New Zealanders improve their financial wellbeing.

You'll have the opportunity to influence some of the bank's most strategic data and technology investments while working alongside talented people across product, engineering, architecture, risk, and business teams.

We value diverse perspectives, encourage innovation, and invest in the growth and development of our people. Most importantly, you'll work with colleagues who bring our values of Care, Courage, and Curiosity to life every day.

Me pēhea te tono | How to apply

If you're excited about leading product strategy, developing high-performing Product Owners, and delivering enterprise data and analytics outcomes at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply online today and help us build the capabilities that keep ASB and our customers One Step Ahead.