AI & Cyber - Product and Delivery Practitioner

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Hybrid working

Parental pay

Volunteer days

Mental health support

L&D fund £2,000

Pension

25 days holiday

Job summary

Manchester Digital is seeking a hands‑on product and delivery practitioner to orchestrate the operating mechanics of a complex technology platform. You will bridge product management with practical delivery across cyber operations, AI and data engineering, driving clear roadmaps, governance and reporting.

You will lead cross‑functional teams to deliver responsible AI capabilities, embed user‑centric practices, and ensure robust risk controls and explicit hand‑offs for client delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven delivery, programme or product management experience in cyber security, AI systems or high‑assurance settings.
• Ability to translate complex AI and cyber information into clear product requirements and reporting.
• Experience leading agile multidisciplinary squads or client stakeholders to deliver complex capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and roadmap ownership, translating operational problems into actionable product visions and backlogs.
• Shape continuous feedback loops and product iterations using user insights and experiments.
• Oversee delivery of responsible AI products with human oversight, logging and release controls.
• Define governance, assurance evidence and escalation paths for cyber activities; drive RAID management across ecosystems.

Skills

Delivery management

Cyber/AI product delivery

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Job description

We are looking for a hands‑on product and delivery practitioner to run the operating mechanics of a complex technology platform. You will bring order, evidence and pace: turning technical activity into clear product roadmaps, robust governance, customer reporting, risk control and coordinated delivery across complex technical ecosystems.

You are not a generic project coordinator. You understand enough about complex platforms and systems—ideally across one of cyber operations, AI and data engineering—to bridge product management with practical delivery, ask the right questions, recognise when risk is not being managed, and make sure the right people act.

What You Will Do

• Creatively lead product discovery and roadmap ownership: driving novel solutions, bringing fresh ideas, and translating complex operational problems into actionable product visions, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
• Actively shape continuous feedback loops and product iteration: deeply embedding yourself in the day-to-day work, leveraging user insights, and experimenting to challenge the status quo and maximize operational value.
• Guide the delivery lifecycle of responsible AI products: embedding user-centric product practices, evaluation plans, human oversight, logging, and ethical release controls.
• Proactively define and drive programme rhythms and delivery execution: establishing and steering processes rather than just participating in them, while maintaining robust RAID management across complex technical ecosystems.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across AI product management, cyber operations, data engineering, and client teams to ensure explicit hand-offs and delivery accountability.
• Establish and evolve governance frameworks and operational controls: taking an action-oriented approach to authorisations, assurance artefacts, control evidence, and escalation pathways for cyber activity.
• Produce evidence-led reporting and stakeholder communication: translating technical progress, security controls, and operational risks into actionable updates for senior sponsors.
• Give programme and client leadership the operational support required to lead relationships and outcomes, rather than carrying every programme mechanic personally.

What Good Looks Like After 90 Days

• You have established a clear delivery rhythm, product backlog, decision log, risk/dependency view and reporting cadence that stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams use.
• Priority product features, delivery milestones, cyber operations and compliance risks have named owners, practical mitigation actions and defined escalation paths.
• Core governance and assurance evidence is mapped, with gaps visible and a plan to close them.
• Any active cyber work has clear authorisation, rules of engagement, data-handling controls and stop/escalation conditions.
• Programme and product leadership has reliable operational support, clear visibility of high-value capabilities, and clearer space to focus on customers, decisions and outcomes.

Essential

What you bring

• Proven delivery, programme, or product management experience in cyber security, AI systems, technology risk, or a similarly high‑assurance setting.
• T‑shaped profile with deep expertise in one core domain (AI product management or cyber delivery) alongside broad skills across product lifecycles, cyber governance, and agile delivery.
• Ability to translate complex AI capabilities and technical cyber information into clear product requirements, user stories, and decisive reporting.
• Comfortable challenging senior technical stakeholders constructively and following issues through to resolution.
• Experience managing agile multidisciplinary squads, suppliers, or client stakeholders to deliver complex capabilities in a pressured environment.

Desirable

• Experience with security operations, vulnerability management, CTEM, threat intelligence, incident response or threat modelling.
• Security qualifications such as CISSP, CISM or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor.
• Hands‑on experience with AI governance frameworks, LLM/RAG evaluation methods, and agentic product delivery.
• Public‑sector, critical‑national‑infrastructure or sovereign programme experience.

What We Offer

• Private healthcare for you and a family member through Westfield Health
• Flexible / Hybrid working
• Enhanced Parental pay
• Volunteer Days
• Multiple Qualified Mental Health First Aider’s with regular 1-1’s available
• £2,000 champion fund to spend as you wish on your own L&D each year
• Laptop and any practicable equipment provided (either a Mac or Windows)
• Regular Nimble Socials (both virtual & physical) including Escape rooms, Lunches, Award nights, Bowling, Bouldering and more!
• Engaging and collaborative communities to be involved in
• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Company pension (with employer contributions)
• Please note, we are unable to offer any form of Visa Sponsorship for this role