We are on accelerated journey to deliver the best flying experience on Earth, connecting New Zealanders to each other and New Zealand to the world. As a brand promise, we endeavour to offer manaaki to all our employees and customers – taking care further than any other airline and creating compelling experiences that empower and connect. Due to an internal promotion, and to support the ongoing transformation of our airline and product portfolio, we are seeking an experienced leader for the permanent role of Chapter Lead - Product Management.
In this role, you’ll drive product performance and play a critical role in defining and championing product best practice at Air New Zealand. You’ll leverage your deep craft expertise and leadership skills to guide a team of experienced Product Management Specialists, lifting the airline’s product craft and supporting the development of a world-class product portfolio. Successful candidates will bring a strategic mindset, strong perspective on product best practice, a passion for coaching high performing teams, and demonstrated experience driving transformational change.
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:
- Demonstrated experience across all phases of the product lifecycle at senior levels, including the development of impactful product strategy, performance outcomes, and initiative delivery
- Commercially astute, strategic, and innovative in your ways of thinking
- A highly collaborative, servant leadership style
- Strategic perspectives on the future of the product management craft
- Ability to guide and motivate teams, influencing stakeholders of all levels and delivering change within an agile environment
- A balance of vision and pragmatism, with the ability to translate long-term ambition into actionable plans that deliver value early.
In return, we offer unique staff travel benefits, flexible working, life insurance, paid parental leave, health and wellbeing support, plus much more. We also believe in growing our people and we offer fantastic career progression opportunities.
If this sounds like you, please apply now via our Careers site. Applications cannot be received via email.
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.
If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
