Senior Product Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Public Sector Resourcing
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Product Manager role at the Department for Work and Pensions involves leading product strategy and roadmap development for Working Age Services across multiple technical teams. The position requires collaboration with engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment with organizational goals and GOV.UK service standards. This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, or Sheffield, and is classified as inside IR35 for a 12-month contract. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing products in technical environments, particularly with Agile and DevOps methodologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve product roadmaps for multiple teams in a highly technical environment.
- Apply Agile principles and practices to deliver products efficiently and transparently.
- Collaborate with Delivery Leads and engineering teams to drive product vision and priorities.
- Work within DevOps and cloud-heavy environments, influencing technical decisions to align with business outcomes.
- Communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and translate complex concepts into actionable plans.
- Ensure alignment with organisational strategy and GOV.UK service standards.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience managing products at scale with technical teams.
- Strong background in Agile delivery and DevOps/cloud environments (AWS experience highly beneficial).
- Experience developing and implementing product strategies and roadmaps across multiple teams.
- Comfortable working with technical language and concepts (observability pipelines, containerisation, databases).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Public sector experience or familiarity with GOV.UK service standards (desirable).
- Experience with AWS and modern container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), with an understanding of best practices (desirable).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager for a 12 month contract (Inside IR35) based Hybrid in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester or Sheffield.
About the role:
Join the Department for Work and Pensions as a Senior Product Manager, shaping the future of Working Age Services. You’ll lead product strategy and roadmap evolution across five technical teams, ensuring services align with organisational goals and deliver real impact for millions of citizens.
As a Senior Product Manager your main responsibilities will be to:
- Own and evolve product roadmaps for multiple teams in a highly technical environment.
- Apply Agile principles and practices to deliver products efficiently and transparently.
- Collaborate with Delivery Leads and engineering teams to drive product vision and priorities.
- Work within DevOps and cloud-heavy environments, influencing technical decisions to align with business outcomes.
- Communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and translate complex concepts into actionable plans.
- Ensure alignment with organisational strategy and GOV.UK service standards.
Essential:
- Proven experience managing products at scale with technical teams.
- Strong background in Agile delivery and DevOps/cloud environments (AWS experience highly beneficial).
- Experience developing and implementing product strategies and roadmaps across multiple teams.
- Comfortable working with technical language and concepts (observability pipelines, containerisation, databases).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Desirable:
- Public sector experience or familiarity with GOV.UK service standards.
- Experience with AWS and modern container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), with an understanding of best practices.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.
In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant
DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".