Senior Product Manager

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll use your understanding of user needs and business goals to frame problems, set priorities, and guide delivery teams. You’ll own the product vision and quality, sometimes working alongside a Lead Product Manager or programme director. You’ll identify opportunities to improve outcomes, enhance benefits, and drive continuous improvement. You’ll have final responsibility for product quality and release readiness, managing either a complex product or multiple related products. Additionally, you may line manage, coach, and mentor Associate and Product Managers, and support recruitment activities. Your leadership will help shape product strategy and ensure delivery aligns with business objectives.

Main Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the product vision, engaging teams and stakeholders throughout its development.
• Lead the creation of roadmaps, release plans, and lifecycle strategies from inception to retirement, contributing to departmental planning.
• Manage the full product lifecycle, including discovery, alpha, beta, and live phases, ensuring successful service assessments.
• Represent user needs throughout delivery, championing user-centred design and decision-making.
• Prioritise development work by maintaining a balanced product backlog that reflects both immediate needs and long-term business value.
• Provide final sign-off on completed functionality before deployment to production environments.
• Use product data and user feedback to drive continuous improvement, generating ideas for new functionality and promoting evidence-based design.
• Ensure product quality meets standards such as the Government Digital Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice, TDA standards, and accessibility legislation, while advocating these across the department and wider government.

UK residency and security requirements      

For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers.

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.

However, in exceptional circumstances security clearance applications for candidates who have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years may be considered. Failure to meet this residency requirement will result in your security clearance application being rejected.