Product Strategist
| Posting date: | 28 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £52,412 to £63,517 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | NE98 1YX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 340732/3 |
Summary
Do you have experience developing Product roadmaps?
If so, this is a great opportunity to work as a Product Strategist within our Payments team.
Payments are core to DWP. We are the biggest payer in the UK, serving 20m citizens which is 34% of the total UK population and make circa £177bn in payments annually generating 1/3 of the UK’s BACS traffic.
Our payment modernisation will see Digital Payments Services continue to develop a common payment service which will become the single source of truth for all citizen payment and bank account information, to be consumed by other business areas to unlock value and mitigate risk across the department.
As a Product Strategist, you will manage the strategy for your part of the product. You will be responsible for strategic and tactical product decisions, using your knowledge of how the service currently works and its future intentions and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for the portfolio team. You will also be actively involved in developing the portfolio direction and managing the product roadmap.
As a Product Strategist you will also have experience of stakeholder management techniques and may work as part of a larger portfolio or product team, managing Associate Product Strategists to develop components or features forming part of the product. You can expect to work independently or as part of a more complex project with a more senior Product Strategy Colleague.
Through commitment to bridging between Payments Teams, Industry experts and Departmental Stakeholders, Strategy team seeks to ensure that DPS looks ahead of the near term to consider emerging standards and future areas of work to provide to Payments Teams, to factor into portfolio roadmaps.
The strategic work considers how services can be evolved in the future incorporating service modernisation principles and emerging industry technological standards to fulfil payments to customers through efficient methods, creating Value for Money in departmental delivery of payments processing.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Alongside Product Managers, develop the vision for the product, working with stakeholders to ensure strategic fit and engaging the delivery and theme teams to maintain alignment and buy in.
- Develop the product strategy for your service and support the product roadmap.
- Manage, influence and negotiate stakeholder relationships and communicate progress and achievements, championing the product within the department.
- Support the professional development of Product Strategy in your area.
- Become a subject matter expert for your portfolio area or product so you can understand how current delivery and proposed changes impact of the strategy for the service.
- Managing queries and requests to your product, understanding where these fit into the long-term vision for your product. Representing your portfolio at forums with internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with wider product team members such as User Research and design to conduct research and analysis into problem statements and policy requests to prepare evidence for pre-prioritisation.
- Prepare papers to support Senior Product Strategists and Product Managers for Governance boards.
- Working with theme teams on improvement requests and design tactical short-term solutions for problems whilst working on the development of problem statements for issues affecting your service and facilitate solutions with wide range of stakeholders, including operational colleagues and policy experts