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Lead Product Manager
Department: Delivery & Practices
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)
Compensation: GBP 63,750 - GBP 84,000 / year
Description
Do you have the skills and passion for delivering user-centred products and services from ideation through to release? Now it's your time to Ignite this passion with Made Tech!
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
As a Lead Product Manager, reporting to the Discipline Head, you'll enable public sector organisations to better design services that improve society. 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.
Main responsibilities
* Apply Agile and Lean practices, innovate, and advocate for best approaches.
* Provide expert consultancy to stakeholders and lead on the development of guidance on all UCP services.
* Own financial and strategic aspects of product management.
* Drive success through the full product life cycle and operational management.
* Anticipate & solve problems and build problem-solving capabilities in others.
* Lead product and strategic ownership, ensuring user needs are met.
Skills people must have
* Experience in helping grow product teams through community, hiring and line management.
* Excellent understanding and passionate 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.
* Experience of assisting to develop product communities of practice as a leader or leading member of a high-performing practice.
* 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.
Are you eligible for security clearance (SC)?
All applicants do not need to hold a valid SC at the time of submitting an application but must be eligible to apply for security clearance if successful for the role.
Support in applying
If you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com.
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.
Job Benefits
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. 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
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