Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager – Up to £77,740, 27.9% pension, hybrid working, flexible hours, investment in your L&D and career growth and lots more.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

• Are you an experienced Product Manager?
• Do you have the strong leadership skills to drive a product team forward?
• Do you want support and develop digital products that work better for millions of people?

Here at DWP Digital we are taking on a generational change to products and service used by millions of people every day.

DWP are a people-focused organisation. We want to attract the best possible people to come and help us create the best possible services for the people who need our support.

Delivering World-Class Products.

Your role is part of our Health and Disability function. We transform how DWP deliver services that ensure people with a health condition or disability get the support they need.

You will be part of our Senior Leadership Team. You’ll work closely with our Deputy Director to push forward the enablers that allow teams across Health and Disability to deliver robust and secure services to millions of claimants.

You will manage competing priorities, drive forward change and innovation, work across DWP to grow the digital maturity of our organisation.

About you.

We need a talented Product Manager who is not just all about the Front End to ‘take the reins’ across a broad range of products – adapting to changing requirements and setting standards.

You’re as passionate about people as you are about products. Here you will lead teams to define, design and deliver your vision and realise the value for all our users.

We need someone who can switch codes quickly.

Today you are making priority calls on user research for the user-facing elements. and tomorrow you’ll make a decision balancing technical debt with a new feature for the back-end which impacts multiple teams.

You can develop product strategy and meaningful, value-driven roadmaps that guide your teams and your stakeholders.

Essential criteria:

Apply if you have:

• Experience of creating and communicating a product vision and roadmap, getting stakeholder buy in
• Worked with user researchers to identify user needs and represented the user in all product choices
• Made effective choices based on incomplete information using a range of suitable techniques
• Prioritised backlogs based on user needs, value and effort
• Experience of working with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams, applying an agile methodology and mindset in a complex environment to enable incremental delivery
• Experience in managing technology based product teams and an understanding of areas such as Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You’ll join us based at our brilliant digital hub based in either Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

Alongside hybrid working (some time at home, some time at the office), we also offer flexible working, including flexi time which means you can achieve that all important work life balance.

In return for your skills, we offer pay up to £77,740 per annum.

You’ll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of (phone number removed)%.

Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days, all the public holidays you’d expect and the option to take extra flexi days

Our benefits package is built around your work-life balance and includes:

• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Learning and development tailored to your role, including industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more

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