Senior Technical Product Owner (Marketplace)

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first.

Senior Technical Product Owners bring structure and momentum to complex work. This fixed-term role takes a high-stakes migration from plan to delivery. We're moving our professional sellers onto a modern platform - a programme touching listings, billing, search and the daily operations of thousands of Kiwi businesses, many reaching us via integrators and e-commerce platforms. It's primarily a technical delivery role, but you'll bring product thinking to prioritise features and cohorts, limiting risk and laying a foundation for future product change.

Here is what you can expect from this role:

• Own the migration plan and backlog end to end - sequencing thin slices, mapping migration paths by cohort, and managing dependencies across engineering, platform teams and an offshore delivery partner.
• Much seller activity reaches us via partner integrations, feeds and e-commerce platforms, so you'll shape the API and integration approach with engineering and co-ordinate release timing.
• Hold the programme's central trade-off with a whole-of-Trade-Me lens: we move fast, but within agreed guardrails benchmarked per cohort, so sellers keep trading and we're protected.
• Partner with the Product Manager on product judgement - value, viability, feasibility, usability - and engineering leadership on technical trade-offs, tooling and readiness.
• Own risk as a live discipline that enables bold decisions, not a reporting exercise - driving mitigations to closure and escalating early.
• Lead release, cutover and rollback planning with product, customer experience, marketing, account management and sales, so every cohort is well prepared.
• Build trust with a broad stakeholder group - liaising with sponsors and senior leadership, articulating trade-offs and keeping everyone informed..

What you will bring to our team:

• 5+ years in senior product or delivery leadership roles - you bring structure to many moving parts and coordinate delivery across streams.
• Experience migrating customers off a legacy system with minimal disruption is a big plus - you know how cohorts, transition states, cutover and rollback work.
• Experience delivering change that depends on third parties - integrators, partners or API consumers - where you influenced someone else's roadmap.
• Experience planning customer-facing releases with marketing, sales, account management and support - a migration is as much a customer engagement exercise as an engineering one.
• Skill in bringing teams with different but equally valid priorities to a shared, evidence-backed answer, and the commercial literacy to make rigorous prioritization calls.
• Exceptional risk management and robust, risk-based decision-making.
• An outstanding communicator - able to explain trade-offs simply, align competing stakeholders and build trust at every level, including offshore teams.
• Technical fluency to partner with engineering on trade-offs and release readiness. A software development or testing background, or knowledge of e-commerce, billing, data, search, or APIs and integration patterns, is a plus.

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:

#AI and Tech: We live and breathe AI in our daily tasks. We value curiosity and an open mind towards new tech, offering dedicated AI skilling to help you grow and thrive in a fast-changing landscape.

#Flexibility: Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week.

#Wellness: Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.

#Leave: We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.

#Social: Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.

#Learning: Whether it's on the job, formal training, or mentoring, you'll grow with us from Day 1. We're big on internal mobility and look to our own talent first for new opportunities.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why".

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.