Senior Product Manager in Newcastle upon Tyne

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award‑winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do.

• UK & Ireland’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3,300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values‑driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!

Job Description

At Version 1, we are solving complex, meaningful problems that deliver impact. Working with leading public and private sector organisations across the UK and Ireland, we deliver important, real‑world outcomes, e.g., we help ensure prisoners are released at the right time, reduce the cost of recruiting teachers for schools, and establish product‑centric ways of working in some of the most prestigious businesses.

Our Product Managers sit at the heart of these transformations.

Who We Are

Version 1 is a values‑led technology consultancy with a growing, passionate 20+ strong product community. We work as trusted partners to our clients embedding within their teams, building capability, and leaving things better than we found them. Our product community sits within the Transformation Design Group (TDG), in the Digital, Data & Cloud capability of Version 1. TDG specialises in tackling complex, systemic challenges – breaking them down through research, evidence and data‑driven insight to design solutions that work for users. We operate with no ego and high trust, experiment, learn quickly and share openly so that everyone benefits.

Here’s What You Can Expect From Us

• A people‑first culture where we prioritise wellbeing and sustainable ways of working.
• A growing product community with active mentoring, shared learning, and the opportunity to shape how product management is applied across the organisation.
• Flexibility and autonomy to do great work, however you do it best.
• Genuine investment in your growth – from funded learning to industry events, we back you to keep improving your craft.

This role requires eligibility for Security Check (SC) clearance. To be eligible you must have the right to work in the UK and will typically have resided in the UK for at least five years.

Qualifications

You lead high‑performing teams, solve the right problems to drive outcomes, and bring clarity and alignment through storytelling. You lead with curiosity and empathy, asking the right questions that get to the heart of a problem. You create environments where diverse perspectives are heard and the best ideas can emerge. You make decisions and set direction. You balance user needs, business priorities and technical constraints to make clear, timely calls – particularly in uncertainty. You focus effort where it will have the greatest impact and bring others with you through those decisions.

Specifically You Are

• Experienced – a proven product practitioner with a strong grasp on the fundamentals and putting them into action to drive real, measurable impact.
• User‑centred – the needs of the people you’re building for are always your North Star.
• Strategically minded – you connect the dots between user needs, business goals and delivery realities.
• A storyteller – you make the complex simple and craft compelling narratives that bring others with you.
• Emotionally intelligent – you know how to read a room, build trust and navigate disagreement with respect.
• Adaptable – you thrive in ambiguity, bring structure where there is none and can onboard quickly.
• Accountable – you make tough calls, hold yourself and others to account and aren’t afraid to say no to ensure a product succeeds.
• A multiplier – you drive teams forward and you make everyone around you better.

How You Operate

We believe great product management is about outcomes, not outputs.

Here’s What That Looks Like Day To Day

• Lead with vision – set a clear direction and reinforce it through team discussions, planning sessions and stakeholder updates.
• Frame problems before solutions – continuously discover, ask the right questions and ensure the team is solving the right problem.
• Champion the user – bring real user insight into every conversation and every decision, ensuring it shapes priorities and trade‑offs.
• Collaborate openly – work across disciplines (design, engineering, data, policy) as true problem‑solving partners.
• Facilitate with purpose – run workshops and meetings that lead to clear decisions and shared understanding.
• Drive progress – take ownership and ensure the team gets over the line.
• Deliver with integrity – do the right thing, including having difficult conversations when needed, so we can proudly stand behind our work.

When working with our clients, expectations are often aligned to SFIA and DDaT frameworks. Experience working in these environments is desirable, but not essential.

Additional Information – Why Version 1?

• 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 and 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 offers flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
• Financial wellbeing initiatives – pension, private healthcare cover, life assurance, financial advice and an employee discount scheme.
• Employee wellbeing schemes – gym discounts, bike‑to‑work, fitness classes, mindfulness workshops, employee assistance programme and 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 – 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.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact Ashley.Smith@Version1.com at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.