Join MediMap as a Technical Product Owner and play a key role in driving our product forward. This is a permanent, full-time opportunity based in our Christchurch office in Middleton.
Role Purpose:
As Technical Product Owner at MediMap, you sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and delivery. Reporting to the Head of Product & Delivery, you work closely with them and the Software Development Manager to shape requirements and drive execution across a platform undergoing modernisation.
You translate product direction into clear, actionable work for the engineering team, ensuring delivery is aligned to business goals and executed efficiently. In doing so, you help ensure MediMap continues to deliver intuitive, effective, and commercially relevant medication management solutions across Australia and New Zealand.
Key Responsibilities:
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Product & Backlog Ownership – Translate product direction into clear, actionable work for the engineering team. Own and prioritise the backlog, ensuring user stories, acceptance criteria, and
delivery plans are aligned to business goals and platform evolution.
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Technical Collaboration & Delivery – Work closely with the Software Development Manager and engineering team to define approach, manage dependencies, and balance scope, speed, and quality. Support delivery across both legacy and modernising platforms.
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Team Alignment & Workflow Management – Partner daily with development and test teams to remove ambiguity, maintain momentum, and ensure focus on high-value work. Own Jira workflows, backlog hygiene, and reporting to enable efficient, low-friction delivery.
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Release & Delivery Coordination – Manage release planning, tracking, and execution, ensuring work is well-documented, traceable, and aligned to outcomes. Coordinate across teams to deliver platform updates, integrations, and improvements.
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Stakeholder Engagement – Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align on priorities, provide visibility on progress, and surface risks early to keep delivery on track.
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Ways of Working, Risk & Compliance – Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team
environment, while ensuring delivery aligns with privacy, security, and
relevant regulatory requirements.
About Us
MediMap supports customers across aged care, mental health, addiction services, hospice, home and community care across NZ and Australia with cutting-edge software solutions, paired with exceptional customer service. Our aim is to provide our customers with effective and efficient functionality through our application to manage their medication management requirements delivering effective outcomes for the people that they are caring for or are within their care.
As a Medem Group solution, we’re driving meaningful changes in healthcare. By joining us, you’ll play a crucial role in supporting healthcare professionals to streamline operations and enhance care.
About You
You’re a technically-minded Product Owner who turns product direction into clear, actionable work for
engineering teams. You balance scope, speed, and quality, own backlog and workflow efficiency, and align delivery to business goals.
A pragmatic communicator, you collaborate across stakeholders, remove ambiguity, manage dependencies, and keep delivery on track in evolving environments.
Key Competencies
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Product experience – Proven experience as a Technical Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role in a software development environment.
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Technical Understanding – Solid technical understanding (APIs, system design, integrations, software lifecycle) and familiarity with Agile and hybrid methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban)
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Requirements Definition – Strong ability to break down complex product requirements into structured, deliverable work.
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Technical Workflow Management – Experience working with Atlassian tools Jira for backlog management, workflow configuration, and release tracking & Confluence for documentation
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Collaboration – Experience working with both technical and non-technical teams, Strong communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Delivery Coordination – Highly organised, detailed-oriented and focused on execution and proven ability to manage multiple product initiatives, releases or projects at the same time.
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Legacy platform exposure – Experience working within evolving or legacy platforms undergoing modernisation
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Adaptability – Highly flexible and adaptable, with the ability to navigate change and ambiguity while keeping outcomes on track.
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Behavioural Expectations – A customer-first approach, honesty, integrity, curiosity, positive team contribution, accountability and a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes.
Measures Of Success
Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs) are developed and reviewed annually in line with MediMap’s business and product strategies, ensuring ongoing alignment with priorities and continuous improvement. Below is a high-level overview of how success is measured in this role:
- Clear, actionable backlog with minimal rework or clarification required
- Consistent delivery aligned with product and platform priorities
- Strong alignment between product intent and delivered functionality
- Efficient, transparent workflow management within Jira
- Positive feedback from development and test teams on clarity and collaboration
- Visible progress across platform modernisation and integration delivery.
Why Join Us?
- Competitive, market-aligned remuneration package
- Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
- Opportunity to be part of our growth plans
- Professional development opportunities and career pathways
- Working with a great team while gaining exposure to new opportunities
Location: Flexible working arrangements are available from our office in Middleton, Canterbury 8024, conveniently located with onsite parking available.
If you’re a skilled and proactive Product Owner, passionate about working for a scaling business
that is making a difference in the aged care & healthcare software industry, we’d love to hear from you!
