Product Manager

Version 1; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share in profits

Career progression & mentorship

Flexible/remote working

Pension 5% matched

Private healthcare

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a senior product leader to drive outcomes by aligning user needs with business priorities. You will guide high-performing teams, craft compelling narratives, and balance research with tech constraints to deliver impactful solutions across client engagements.

You’ll operate with curiosity, empathy and storytelling, shaping roadmaps while ensuring inclusion and collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Experienced product practitioner with strong fundamentals and measurable impact.
• User needs are the North Star in all decisions.
• Strategically connect user needs to business goals and delivery reality.
• Able to craft compelling narratives that bring others along.

Responsibilities

• Lead with vision and set direction through discussions and updates.
• Frame problems clearly and ensure the team solves the right problem.
• Champion the user by bringing insights into decisions and priorities.
• Collaborate across design, engineering, data, and policy as problem-solving partners.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings to drive clear decisions and shared understanding.
• Drive progress and own delivery to crossing the line.
• Deliver with integrity and address difficult conversations when needed.

Skills

Product management

User centric

Strategic thinking

Storytelling

Emotional intelligence

Adaptability

Accountability

Team leadership

Job description

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated30 yearsinbusinessand continues to be trusted by global brands to delivertechnology and transformationsolutions that drive customer success. Ourdeepexpertiseenables our customers to navigate the rapidlyevolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships withglobal technology leadersincluding Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat,OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’rean award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heartof whatwe do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ 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’rea corevalues drivencompany, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them,it’sdeeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us andwe’llinvest in you!.

Job Description

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, wherever they come from.

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.

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.

Qualifications

Specifically, you are:

• Experienced - you’re 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.

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

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• 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; Version 1 Pension with a 5% employee-matched contribution, 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.
• 24 days holiday allowance plus Public Holidays, 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 & quarterly Star Awards.
• 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.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

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 [e-mail] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.