Kia ora!
As a Tribe Digital Lead, you will play a pivotal role in Air New Zealand’s journey to become the best digital airline in the world. Partnering closely with the Unit Lead, you will shape and deliver our digital strategy, ensuring it aligns with business goals and enables transformation.
Your focus will be on leading digital change for Engineering & Maintenance or one of the Operational Areas, helping teams unlock value from new ways of working, emerging technologies, and smarter delivery practices.
What You Will Bring
- Data & AI awareness: A solid understanding of data and AI trends, platforms, and practical applications, with the ability to recognise where they can add value. Experience applying these capabilities to real business challenges would be an advantage.
- Proven leadership: Experience leading large teams across diverse functions, with the ability to motivate, coach, and create an inclusive, outcome-focused culture.
- Delivery expertise: knowledge of digital delivery approaches, ideally with hands-on experience in Agile environments.
- Operational/engineering insight: Experience in operational or engineering domains, or in environments with high levels of complexity and safety focus, would be highly valuable.
- Strong communication: Ability to bridge technical and business worlds, making complex concepts simple and engaging for different audiences.
- Adaptability & resilience: Comfortable navigating ambiguity, rolling up your sleeves, and guiding teams through dynamic environments.
- Strategic execution: Experience in setting digital priorities, managing dependencies, and measuring outcomes through KPIs and metrics.
- Mindset of curiosity and innovation: A desire to experiment, learn, and help teams embrace change.
What Can We Offer You
At Air New Zealand, you will be at the forefront of our digital journey, working in an exciting and dynamic environment where you can make a significant impact. We offer opportunities for growth and development, and the chance to help shape the future of one of the world’s leading airlines. Join us in driving Full Potential and be part of a world-class team leading the charge in digital transformation.
So what are you waiting for? Take flight and apply today!
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."
