Product Manager

As a Product Manager you will be skilled in framing problems, setting priorities for your delivery team and ensuring quality products are delivered for customers. Working closely with your Scrum Master, development team, user researchers, service designers and technical leads, you will define and prioritise a product backlog and ensure delivery of successful outcomes. You will participate in daily scrums, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives, ensuring the next sprint is ready to commence and inspecting the product's progress at the end of every sprint. You will work with stakeholders to understand user needs and translate the product roadmap into manageable product backlog items for your Scrum team. You will have complete authority to accept or reject work done, ensuring delivered software meets capabilities as envisioned.

Qualifications

• Agile working. You have strong experience working in Agile environments with expert knowledge of Agile methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum and SAFe. You can coach your team through the lifecycle stages of sprints and releases. You can think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes, helping the team to overcome barriers and achieve better results for the user and the organisation.
• Product ownership. You are able to manage an end-to-end product backlog, prioritising features and getting buy-in from the team to ensure successful delivery. You work closely with user researchers to understand user needs, ensuring the product is designed for the people who use it. You can translate a product roadmap into manageable backlog items and can promote best practice within your agile team including implementing solutions for assisted digital users.
• Stakeholder and problem management. You can identify important stakeholders, tailoring communication to their needs, and work with your team to build these relationships across the product's lifecycle. You have good communication skills, acting as a bridge between development teams and stakeholders, representing business challenges and requirements clearly to engineers and relevant points of technical designs and constraints to business users. You can articulate problems and help others to understand their impact. You can use evidence to build consensus to deliver the best outcome.
• Requirements and feature definition. You can connect with stakeholders across multiple locations to create and fully form product features. You can distil inputs from a variety of users and stakeholders to create a complete picture of the market problems to be solved. You can define software capabilities to meet understood requirements including usability, utilising artefacts that provide engineering with sufficient guidance to ensure progress. You can challenge stakeholders to ensure that an understanding is achieved that is coherent, complete, credible, and sufficiently concrete to facilitate the development of software.
• Quality and delivery management. You can work with the Scrum Master and development team to establish a maintainable velocity, ensure quality, eliminate defects, and motivate the team. You can perform root cause analysis of problems and support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure that solutions are ready for release. You know how to liaise with software architects to understand features and changes in product requirements and support release planning and sprint planning exercises.
• Business analysis. You have strong business analysis skills and good process analysis and mapping skills, with comfort in complex business domain modelling. You can provide an accurate assessment of a feature's business value and can envisage software features that solve market problems and that can be implemented at feasible levels of cost and risk.
• Public sector and GDS experience. Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standard. Experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager with a software product vendor.

Benefits

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more.
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.