Product Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Response Informatics
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Product Manager role involves defining and communicating a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with organizational goals. The position requires establishing a transparent prioritization framework and engaging with senior stakeholders to maximize value delivery while ensuring compliance with government standards. Leadership and coaching of multi-disciplinary teams are essential, fostering collaboration and psychological safety. The role demands a hands-on approach to managing product initiatives through various phases, particularly in complex public-sector environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and communicate product vision and strategy aligned to organizational goals.
- Establish and maintain a transparent prioritization framework combining user value, business strategy, technical risk, and cost-to-serve.
- Advise senior stakeholders on trade-offs and sequencing to maximize value delivery and minimize risk.
- Build and sustain trust across senior stakeholders and influence decisions using data and user insights.
- Ensure compliance with government service standards and advise on risk management.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams through influence, fostering psychological safety and collaboration.
- Coach team members in product thinking to uplift capability.
Key Skills:
- Proven leadership of product initiatives at Discovery, Alpha, and Beta phases.
- Experience in complex public-sector or regulated services.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influence across various domains.
- High emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to lead through influence without formal authority.
- Experience in value-based prioritization frameworks.
- Willingness to engage directly with teams to drive results.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Product Strategy
Define and communicate clear product vision and strategy aligned to organisational goals and outcomes. Ensure product roadmap reflects user needs, policy intent, technical constraints, and value metrics Enable teams to understand strategic context and make decisions within agreed boundaries
Prioritisation & Value Management
Establish and maintain a transparent prioritisation framework combining user value, business strategy, technical risk, and cost-to-serve. Advise senior stakeholders on trade-offs and sequencing to maximise value delivery and minimise risk. Ensure backlog and roadmap decisions are evidence-based and documented for governance and assurance.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Build and sustain trust across senior stakeholders, policy leads, compliance, engineering, and delivery partners (as needed). Influence decisions at executive and cross-team level using data, user insights, and regulatory requirements (where appropriate). Enable constructive challenge and pushback to maintain alignment on outcomes and value.
Governance & Assurance
Ensure compliance with government service standards, accessibility, security, and operability requirements. Advise on risk management Enable readiness for Discovery, Alpha, and Beta assessments through evidence-based planning and documentation.
Leadership & Coaching
Lead multi-disciplinary teams through influence, not authority, fostering psychological safety and collaboration. Coach team members and stakeholders in product thinking without formal coaching labels, uplifting capability.
Skills & experience (must-haves)
Proven leadership of Product intiiatives at Discovery, Alpha and Beta phases Experience of working in complex public-sector or regulated services Exceptional stakeholder management: you influence senior decision-makers across policy, compliance, engineering and delivery, and navigate multi-supplier ecosystems. High EQ & interpersonal skills: you coach management without the label, create psychological safety, and enable better decisions and behaviours. Lead through influence: you set direction and hold course on outcomes without line authority; you escalate with evidence and secure decisions. Value-based prioritisation: you design and run frameworks that balance user value, regulatory/policy intent, technical risk/vision, and cost-to-serve. Constructive pushback: you challenge requests/opinions with data and options; you can say “no” and keep the team aligned on value. Willingness to do the work: this isn’t a hands-off management job: you will be working closely with the squads getting stuff done