Product Manager

Met Office; Devon and Torbay; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental organization in the UK is seeking an experienced Product Manager to join their team. The role focuses on maximizing product value through effective management of user needs and business strategy. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in agile development and stakeholder management. This full-time position offers a hybrid working model and a total reward package up to £58,419 annually.

Benefits

Civil Service pension

Annual leave starting at 27.5 days

Opportunity for hybrid working

Qualifications

• Strong experience in an agile software development environment.
• Ability to apply user-centered insights to inform product decisions.
• Experience in defining success metrics and performance indicators.

Responsibilities

• Maximise the value delivered by aligning business strategy and user needs.
• Develop and own product visions and roadmaps.
• Monitor product performance to inform future plans.
• Deliver effective product lifecycle management.

Skills

Agile development

Stakeholder management

User-centered design

Product lifecycle management

Job description

We're looking for a Product Manager to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Product Manager, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We're experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We're better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and driven Product Manager to join our Product Management team. You will be responsible for product management tasks for key underpinning products and services at the Met Office.

Product Management is an established profession within the Met Office with an active Community of Practice group offering support and best practice. We're a supportive and proactive team and work together to develop Product Management skills aligned to the Government Digital and Data Profession.

Your key duties:

• Maximise the value delivered, taking into account the balance between aligning to business strategy, delivering customer contracts and responding to user needs.
• Develop and own product visions and roadmaps based on customer, stakeholder and user needs.
• Monitor how your product portfolio is performing to inform backlog prioritisation and future lifecycle plans.
• Identify and manage development dependencies on other related systems or products.
• Deliver effective and efficient product lifecycle management through product development and optimisation, rationalisation, and retirement in line with Met Office project and programme plans.
• Apply a strong user and customer focus, using insights from user research to inform roadmaps and product strategy
• Adopt the Government Digital Service framework and guidance to ensure consistency, quality and cost-effectiveness.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their 'Best Workplaces in Tech' 2023 and 2024 lists, as well as their '54 Best Workplaces for Women' 2023 list.

As our Product Manager, your total reward package will be up to £58,419 annually, which includes:

• £41,725 base pay.
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave.

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. You're an expert by nature with strong experience of working in an agile software development environment with a multidisciplinary team and managing products through their lifecycle.
2. You keep evolving to improve product and service outcomes, applying user-centred insights to inform decisions and balancing user needs with strategic objectives.
3. Evidence of working better together to build relationships with stakeholders, resolve issues in challenging situations and agree the strategic approach and vision.
4. You're a force for good with experience of defining appropriate success metrics and performance indicators that demonstrate value and how the product contributes to agreed outcomes.
5. You live and breathe it with experience of estimating current and future value, risks and effort required, to prioritise your roadmap and manage uncertainty with stakeholders.

How to apply

If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 20/08/2025 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from the beginning of September.

Using AI in your application

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.

How we can help

You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don't always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.