Senior Product Manager
| Posting date: | 04 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £60,300 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 September 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 423952 |
Summary
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
Define and evolve the product vision, engaging teams and stakeholders throughout its development.
Lead the creation of roadmaps, release plans, and lifecycle strategies from inception to retirement, contributing to departmental planning.
Manage the full product lifecycle, including discovery, alpha, beta, and live phases, ensuring successful service assessments.
Represent user needs throughout delivery, championing user-centred design and decision-making.
Prioritise development work by maintaining a balanced product backlog that reflects both immediate needs and long-term business value.
Provide final sign-off on completed functionality before deployment to production environments.
Use product data and user feedback to drive continuous improvement, generating ideas for new functionality and promoting evidence-based design.
Ensure product quality meets standards such as the Government Digital Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice, TDA standards, and accessibility legislation, while advocating these across the department and wider government.
Translate complex technical concepts into clear roadmaps that engineering and architecture teams can understand.
Define and evolve the product vision, engaging teams and stakeholders throughout its development.
Lead the creation of roadmaps, release plans, and lifecycle strategies from inception to retirement, contributing to departmental planning.
Manage the full product lifecycle, including discovery, alpha, beta, and live phases, ensuring successful service assessments.
Represent user needs throughout delivery, championing user-centred design and decision-making.
Prioritise development work by maintaining a balanced product backlog that reflects both immediate needs and long-term business value.
Provide final sign-off on completed functionality before deployment to production environments.
Use product data and user feedback to drive continuous improvement, generating ideas for new functionality and promoting evidence-based design.
Ensure product quality meets standards such as the Government Digital Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice, TDA standards, and accessibility legislation, while advocating these across the department and wider government.
Translate complex technical concepts into clear roadmaps that engineering and architecture teams can understand.
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