14640 - Product Manager

Location: National

Closing Date: 22nd February 2026

Interviews: w/c 9th March 2026

Grade: Grade 7 (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £63,343 – £70,725 | National: £58,511 – £65,329

Working pattern: Full-time/Part-time/Flexible

Contract Type: Permanent

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office.

The Role

We’re recruiting for Product Managers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative teams in our Legal Aid Agency and Prisons Digital teams. This role aligns against Product Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework. Millions of people every year interact with MoJ services, and here at Justice Digital we play an important role in making the experience of all our users simpler, faster, and better. We have a clear vision – to deliver a world class justice system that works for all – and we’re looking for talented people to help us achieve it. Our MoJ strategy sets out our core priorities, including putting data at the core of our decisions and users at the heart of our services. We are ambitious, and we need great product people to help us achieve the ambitions we have set out in our 2025 vision, delivering great outcomes through digital products.

We’re looking for talented, enthusiastic and passionate individuals who are excited by the challenge of designing digital public services and providing our staff with technology at least as good as they have at home. We need Product Managers to be a part of our highly collaborative and creative teams here at Justice Digital. There are various opportunities across a range of teams that are already delivering and developing great products and services across a diverse portfolio of work. In the Legal Aid Agency, we help the most vulnerable people in society to get access to legal representation. LAA digital works to improve access to legal representation and enable reliable and swift payments to providers of legal aid. We aim to support the future of legal aid with sustainable, user‑centred services such as Check if you can get legal aid. Your goal is to contribute to solving complex and often challenging problems. It’s an exciting and challenging time right now, you can make a considerable difference, help us to achieve great outcomes and be a part of our vibrant product community.

As well as doing great work, we’re creating a place that’s great to work in. We offer brilliant training opportunities, access to great professional networks and support from expert colleagues. On top of that, you’ll find flexible working, an inclusive culture and a place where your opinion is valued. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025.

Key Responsibilities

• Becoming experienced in all aspects of Product Management.
• Act as the subject matter expert/owner of a single product/problem space and have a good understanding of product life cycle, working independently in any phase of product delivery.
• Work with the business to understand their business and user problems.
• Champion users’ needs, determine the changes needed, define scope, present evidence‑based decisions and escalated issues only when necessary.
• Ensure that products are of a high quality, provide direction and prioritise the work for the product team.
• This includes the development and continual improvement of one or more products, supporting the transition to live operational running and releasing solutions that provide early value whenever possible.
• Define a product level strategy to support Senior/Lead Product Managers on overall strategic direction.
• Be fully aware of the strategic direction that impacts your product, work alongside colleagues to ensure your deliveries align to strategy.
• Engage in self‑development of self and others.
• May line‑manage an APM, have a mentor or be a mentor to an APM/less experienced PM.
• Engage and communicate effectively with all colleagues and stakeholders e.g. business areas, external stakeholders, across cross‑functional team(s) and MoJ teams.
• Interact with x‑Gov product activity and be actively engaged in the MoJ Product Community.
• Execute agreed policies, proactively engage with Policy colleagues/stakeholders to ensure that product meets the policy intent.
• Influence operational level policy change.
• Know the political landscape so you can answer questions/know what is needed.

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part‑time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget to support all our people, with access to best‑in‑class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e‑learning platforms.
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow.
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024.
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday.
• 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.