Senior Product Manager

Made Tech; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking tech company in the UK is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the development of user-centered public services. This role will involve mentoring junior team members and collaborating closely with clients to ensure high-quality outputs. The ideal candidate will have a strong grasp of product management principles and a proven history in public sector projects. The company offers competitive compensation and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

30 days Holiday

Flexible Working Hours

Flexible Parental Leave

Remote Working

Paid counseling

Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of product and user-centered design.
• Experience delivering user-centered products from ideation to maintenance.
• Ability to support and coach team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to deliver user-centered services.
• Collaborate with clients to deliver quality work.
• Coach and manage junior product team members.

Skills

User-centered design

Coaching others

Experience with public sector

Collaboration

Empathy

Job description

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Senior Product Manager

Department: Strategy & Design

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)

Compensation: GBP 50,500 - GBP 60,000 / year

Description

Are you a Product Manager, passionate about user-centred design? If solving complex problems that uplift societal value feels rewarding to you, then keep on reading!

About Made Tech

Our aim at Made Tech is to use human-centred technology to improve our society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone.

About the role

Our Senior Product Managers enable public sector organisations to better design services that improve society. You will be expected to role model and lead teams with best practice in your discipline.

Reporting to one of our Lead Product Managers, this role is responsible for leading on product within a client delivery team. You will work as part of cross-functional teams which might include other Made Tech team members, stakeholders and partner agencies. You will inspire trust in the team, guide and coach teams through the product process and use your influence to continuously iterate and improve ways of working and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be expected to work in a self initiated manner, but with support of senior team members, and in a collaborative and inclusive manner
• Collaborate with and influence the wider Made Tech team and our clients to deliver high quality work aligned with our customers vision and needs
• Influence decision making which impacts the success of the team. This might include scoping work, prioritisation, deadlines, budgets and evaluating risk
• Work across one assignment for a client at one time
• Coach, support and people manage more junior members of the Product team. To steer and coach them towards successful delivery for our clients, enabling them and holding them accountable for producing high quality outputs and deliverables
• Maintain a broad technical knowledge of product management, and continue to develop knowledge of user-centred design and technical practice. Assist and be able to shape strategy, proposals, statements of work and roadmaps
• Contribute to Made Tech's community of practice for Product and collaborate with other disciplines
• Assist in developing and growing the discipline in line with business and capability needs, ensuring we embed the Made Tech way of product-led and design thinking into all that we do

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Skills people must have:

• Excellent understanding and articulation of the value of product and user-centred design
• Experience and evidence of delivering user centred products and services from ideation through to maintenance phases
• Ability to support and coach others to grow their skills, product capabilities and to take on more responsibility for client-facing projects
• Able to educate and mentor team members, colleagues and peers in the wider business on developing product and agile delivery as a core discipline
• Experienced in working directly with customers and users, and able to drive teams to deliver excellent outcomes for users
• Working within a design consultancy/senior product leadership role in the public sector, health or allied areas
• Strong empathy and relationship building skills

Desirable (not essential) skills:

• Working with sales teams to build client relationships, develop opportunities and win new work
• Working in the open - building the trust within teams to share little and often
• Experience in re‑designing legacy services and products
• Maintaining a deep working knowledge of product, design and research techniques
• Experience in line management

SC Eligibility

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.

Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

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Life at Made Tech

We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We're collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

The groups are:

• antiracist-activists
• disability
• lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
• neurodiversity
• parents-carers
• womxn-in-tech

Job Benefits

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

• 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave
• Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
• Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
• Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
• Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice