Product Manager

The role involves working with technical teams and stakeholders to develop solutions that deliver our clients’ strategic goals. You will work in agile teams alongside people in a range of roles spanning design, development, and research. Your responsibilities include delivering the vision, deciding on product features, and managing backlogs to meet client preferences. You will also conduct discovery and ideation workshops across diverse groups of stakeholders, ensuring that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures.

Requirements

This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel to client sites in Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester as part of their normal daily commute. Travel expenses are not covered. Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process. SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants are expected to have lived in the UK for at least five consecutive years prior to application to allow the appropriate background checks to be completed. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process.

To succeed in this role, you will need to show a depth of experience working as a product manager on complex projects across the product life cycle. You will need a good knowledge of software development and be familiar with agile processes and user‑centred design. In your CV and the interview, you should demonstrate how you have:

• Developed and gained buy‑in for product visions and minimum viable products
• Used service design tools to map and articulate the wider ecosystems around products
• Translated product roadmaps into backlogs to prioritise delivery
• Balanced the needs of senior stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes
• Exhibited excellent communication and relationship management skills
• Contributed to constructive and trusting team environments

As well as product management skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant. In your interview, please show how you have:

• Taken a methodical and considered approach to solving complex problems
• Planned your own tasks to achieve the objectives of your project
• Positively challenged decisions or solutions you don’t agree with

There are some areas of experience which are not essential but relevant to this role. If you don’t have this experience, please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas when you join us. If you have any of the following relevant experience, please show it on your CV and discuss it in the interview:

• The Service Standard (UK Government)
• Use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• Attending wider product community events and workshops
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or agile delivery management

In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrate this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Consultant salary range: £50,000-£59,000

What we offer: A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options, and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities, and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

Where you’ll work: This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites, and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We include you: We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking, and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview: Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

Want to know more? Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com