Please read (role level): The Senior Product Lead role sits within the following Product career path at Kiwibank: Product Lead > Sr Product Lead > Product Manager > Senior Product Manager > Head of This is us. Where making an impact matters. At Kiwibank, we are undergoing a significant digital transformation, and we need a seasoned Senior Product Lead for one of our Frontline Lending experience squads. The squad plays a key role in improving the experience of our staff and helping them deliver outcomes for customers by supporting and enhancing the applications which make up the end-to-end lending journey, delivering excellent experiences for lending staff to make it easier and faster for them to support our customers. Your role as Senior Product Lead will be pivotal in ensuring the squad is set up to succeed, so experience leading a development squad is essential as you'll need to hit the ground running. Day to day this could include: Backlog management – prioritise and refine the product backlog to ensure our team focuses on high-impact initiatives. Gathering and shaping user stories and acceptance criteria for refinement with your squad(s). Leading product discovery and presenting back options that both align with Technology strategy and support the business to achieve their desired outcome. Agile Leadership – maintain and enhance Agile practices within the squad, facilitating sprint planning, reviews, refinement etc. to ensure efficient and effective development cycles. Stakeholder Communications – act as the primary liaison between the development squad and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of product vision, progress, and challenges. Strategic Planning – support the Product Manager in defining the product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with company objectives. Clearly articulating the 'why' of prioritised work, and how this will achieve measurable progress towards objectives. This is us. Where your expertise matters. Key experience and expertise you would bring to the role would include: A strong and proactive collaborator who can confidently engage with stakeholders and present meaningful insights. Proven Business analysis and product development life cycle experience. Experience leading development teams. Ability to lead and drive a team, enabling the team members to easily move from vision to delivery. Ability to think strategically and at a detailed level to cope with business and technology complexity. Ability to communicate with engineers and architects to allow for effective creation of feature and story delivery and associated success criteria. Understanding of DevSecOps processes and tooling. Bonus (not essential but advantageous to have): Banking/Finance industry experience, in particular across Lending products. This is us. Where you and your whanau matter. We want you to get the most out of work and life, so you will have the option to explore flexible working arrangements that suit both your needs and ours. We now also offer one wellbeing day a quarter to ensure our people are taken care of and can bring their best selves to work. Our great range of benefits include health and life cover, discounted banking, insurance products and an incredible package for new parents. We are proud to be a Pride Pledge partner, a certified B Corporation and we are the first bank in Aotearoa to get the Gender Tick . We are also an accredited Living Wage employer. Apply Now! – We will be reviewing applications throughout the advertising period, and we reserve the right to withdraw the ad at any time. Applications close Wednesday 13th November. Please note: We're currently experiencing a high volume of applications, so there may be an additional delay in responding to you. Recruitment agencies: We're not seeking support at this stage. At Kiwibank we are all about making Kiwi better off. For an idea about what life is like at Kiwibank and some of the benefits we offer make sure to check out the attached video. #J-18808-Ljbffr