Technical Product Manager - People Hub in Leeds

We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens. Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day.

As a Technical Product Manager on our CIVICA PeopleHub product, you will be responsible for equipping your team with detailed technical requirements through a product backlog to build high quality products, delivering to our product roadmaps that align to Civica's strategic goals. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will take complex business problems and break them into simple, elegant and highly effective user stories, ensuring the end product aligns with the company's mission and vision of becoming a global GovTech champion.

This is a fantastic chance for you to gain insights into the UK public sector market, shape the future of our CIVICA PeopleHub product, and engage with our key clients and internal stakeholders regularly.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure that technical solutions meet product requirements whilst providing technical guidance and oversight to ensure that solutions are technically feasible, scalable, maintainable, and meet quality standards.
• Guide the engineering process by managing product backlogs, creating and refining product requirements into user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Participate in team ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to ensure the engineering team has a clear understanding of product priorities.
• Triaging and resolving product-related issues, working with the engineering team to address bugs, and communicating with stakeholders to manage expectations.
• Identify upcoming risks and proactively implement strategies to mitigate them, ensuring successful product delivery.
• Together with the Product Manager, make trade-off decisions when faced with conflicting priorities, resource constraints, or technical limitations.
• Work closely with various stakeholders, including engineering, design, marketing, commercial, and customer success teams to ensure successful product development.
• Analysing data and metrics to inform product decisions, measure product performance, and identify areas for improvement.
• Support a strong culture of knowledge sharing and product decision and design documentation.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Product Manager, working in a modern software or product organisation.
• Proven ability to create and manage backlogs, writing clear user stories with concise and detailed acceptance criteria.
• Capable of prioritising features, requirements, and tasks based on customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
• Competency to participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions.
• Continuously seeking to understand customer needs, pain points, and motivations to develop products that meet customer requirements and deliver value.
• Strong analytical skills to collect, analyse, and interpret data to inform product decisions.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.
• Flexible to adapt to changing market conditions, customer needs, and business priorities.
• Strong problem-solving skills to overcome technical, business, and customer challenges.
• Operates with Agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, to manage product development and collaborate with engineering teams.
• Understanding of programming concepts, including data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns.
• Knowledge of technical architecture, including system design, scalability, and performance optimisation.

At Civica, we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a variety of perspectives drives innovation and excellence, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristic.