Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Version 1 as a Senior Product Manager and leverage your expertise in framing problems, setting priorities, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products. You will collaborate closely with senior stakeholders, influencing product development and working with agile delivery teams to define and prioritize the product roadmap. In addition to delivering excellent customer outcomes, you will demonstrate strong commercial awareness, support sales activities, and contribute to the upskilling and mentoring of both customers and junior colleagues. Experience with Government Organizations, Civil Service projects, and GDS principles is highly valuable. Version 1 offers a comprehensive benefits package prioritizing employee well-being, professional growth, and financial stability.

Requirements

• Be an expert in Agile and Lean practices, coaching and leading teams across the lifecycle stages of projects
• Think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes, challenging stakeholders and the team to overcome barriers and achieve better results for the user and the organisation within legislative or commercial constraints
• Create and own an end-to-end product roadmap, prioritizing the product backlog and getting buy-in from the organisation to ensure successful delivery
• Work closely with research to understand user needs, ensuring the service is designed for the people who use it
• Be experienced in product and service development and promote best practice across agile teams including implementing solutions for assisted digital users
• Be accountable for realising project benefits and securing funding for projects when necessary
• Realise the benefit of a product, how it integrates with other systems or services and align benefits to user needs and to the business case
• Work with development teams to manage scope within commercial constraints such as budget restrictions or deadlines
• Identify important stakeholders, tailoring communication to their needs, and work with teams to build these relationships across the project’s lifecycle stages
• Have good communications skills, able to articulate the problem and help others to understand its impact
• Use evidence to build consensus to deliver the best outcome
• Make operations efficient, acting as the escalation point for major operational issues
• Work closely with leaders of operational delivery teams in an organisation

Responsibilities

• Frame problems, set priorities for delivery teams, and ensure quality products are delivered for customers
• Work closely with senior stakeholders at project and programme level, influence and provide direction on product development
• Work with agile delivery teams (delivery managers, user researchers, service designers, and technical leads) to define and prioritize a product roadmap and ensure delivery of successful outcomes
• Deliver excellent outcomes for customers
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness and experience in supporting sales activity
• Bring knowledge of best practices in product development
• Support the upskilling and mentoring of customers as well as early career consultants

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Civil Service projects and GDS principles

Benefits

• Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes