Service Owner - Digital Channels Insight and Development

Lead a specialist digital team supporting Inland Revenue's online services. Permanent opportunity. Help shape how development, automation, data and insight capability is focused on the work that matters most. The opportunity - Ara Whiwhi Mahi. Inland Revenue's digital services play a critical role in how New Zealanders meet their tax and social policy obligations. Our online channels support high-volume customer interactions every day, and they need to remain reliable, secure, accessible, and easy to use. We are looking for an experienced people leader to lead our Digital Channels Insight and Development team. This team brings together specialists in development, automation, and intelligence and insight. Their work supports the ongoing delivery, improvement and stewardship of Inland Revenue's key digital channels, including myIR and Gateway Services. This is a leadership role for someone who can bring structure, clarity and delivery focus to a complex digital environment. You will help ensure specialist capability is focused on the right priorities, that work is planned and delivered well, and that trade-offs are made clearly when demand exceeds available capacity. You will work closely with other digital leaders, delivery teams and specialists to make sure development, automation and insight capability is applied where it can have the greatest impact for customers, the organisation and the wider tax system. This role may be based anywhere in New Zealand where IR has an office. Responsibilities Lead a specialist team: lead development, automation, and intelligence and insight specialists, setting clear expectations for delivery, quality, performance and contribution. Prioritise work and manage trade-offs: determine where specialist effort is best applied, balancing competing demands across planned change, service improvement, operational support and wider organisational priorities. Support delivery across teams: connect specialists into priority work across digital delivery teams, ensuring their expertise is used effectively and at the right time. Maintain delivery confidence: develop delivery plans, monitor progress, identify risks and blockers, and intervene where needed to protect quality, technical standards and outcomes. Strengthen digital channel performance: support work that improves stability, accessibility, automation, onboarding, insight and ongoing performance of Inland Revenue's digital services. Build capability and accountability: coach and support people, strengthen ways of working, and create the conditions for specialists to perform well through complexity and competing priorities. About you Mōu: we are looking for someone with strong people leadership experience and a practical understanding of digital delivery in a complex environment. What you will bring Experience leading specialist or multidisciplinary teams in a digital, technology, service delivery, product, data, automation or operational environment. Experience managing demand through structured planning and prioritisation, including making and communicating trade-offs. The ability to balance immediate delivery pressures with the longer‑term needs of services, systems and customers. Confidence working across teams and disciplines to align specialist capability to delivery outcomes. Strong judgement, including the ability to identify when work needs to be escalated, reprioritised or reshaped. The ability to set expectations, coach people, strengthen accountability and support performance under pressure. A focus on quality, service health, customer outcomes and sustainable delivery. Motivated by the opportunity to contribute to public services that affect people across Aotearoa New Zealand. #J-18808-Ljbffr