This is an exciting role working on improving government digital services. As a Product Manager at Companies House you will be responsible for creating, supporting and continuously improving our products and services. You will coordinate multi-disciplinary teams in the delivery of software and services, respond to changes in design and be able to deliver under pressure to short timescales.
Working closely with Service Managers and Delivery Managers, you will seek out opportunities to optimise delivery, while ensuring quality standards are attained and maintained.
Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.
Job description
Companies House incorporates, maintains and dissolves limited companies, and makes that information available to the public.
This is an exciting opportunity in the Digital Services Directorate, helping to design and deliver quality digital solutions for the millions of users of our services. You will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in Government and help shape our services to meet the ever-changing demands of the UKs business landscape.
The Product team plays a key role in the design, delivery and management of these services. Product Managers work with colleagues across the organisation to define, own and solve problems for users of our services. Product Managers work in an open, iterative and collaborative way in a multidisciplinary team, and need to communicate effectively and collaborate closely with designers, researchers, analysts, developers and architects, not to mention stakeholders and colleagues across Companies House. Candidates will be effective communicators with knowledge and application of product management techniques. They understand user centred design practices and know how to embed them into an agile workflow to deliver timely findings.
Responsibilities:
Define and own the vision and scope for products, engaging teams and stakeholders in the development of that vision over time.
Champion your users, reviewing research, feedback, data and insights to inform continuous improvement and decide on the priorities for user research and business analysis.
Work across the organisation to engage stakeholders throughout the journey through visible progress and transparent decision making.
Lead the definition, priority and refinement of stories in the backlog to ensure they are of sufficient quality for research, design and development
Work within a multidisciplinary team
Person specification We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. Please refer to the bold bullet points in the experience section when writing your personal statement.
Experience- please refer to top 4 bold bullet points in personal statement
Candidates have experience of product management and product ownership in a complex and fast-paced environment.
User focus: identify who is the user and what are their needs based on evidence.
The ability to engage teams and stakeholders to develop a vision.
Problem ownership: understanding and identifying problems, analysing and helping to define the appropriate solution.
Agile working: understand agile methodology and how to apply the agile mindset to deliver in a flexible, iterative and value-focused way.
Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Managing a Quality Service
Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Understanding of phases of a digital service and it's lifecycle
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £41,571, Companies House contributes £12,043 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House were committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
We celebrate diversity...
As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring were representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments.
Where will you be working?
You will be aligned to our Cardiff Office, where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage.