Lead Product Manager

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Our Central Government client is recruiting for a Leader to help shape and define as a Product Manager. The successful candidate will lead the digital team on an important Government programme.

This is a great opportunity to work on a high-profile project with significant ministerial interest that has social impact and is underpinned by user needs.

The project is a multi-disciplinary team covering policy, data and digital work streams. As well as policy officials, statisticians, analysts, and social researchers, the digital team includes developers, user researcher, delivery manager, content designers, product manager and service manager - this will change to reflect priorities and needs over time. We all work together using the One Team Government principles and the government design principles.

The role

Lead the evolution of the relevant facts and figures website - improve both the publishing tool and the website so that we continue to meet the needs of our users. Work in an agile, multi-disciplinary team, primarily with front-end designer, developers, content designers and a user researcher. Overall responsibility for the product roadmap and the digital team.

Key Skills / Experience

* Proven skills providing leadership and direction for your products

* Proven skills creating, maintaining, prioritising and delivering a product backlog and roadmap to direct the work of team

* Proven experience managing stakeholders across government and adapting to changing needs and evolving government landscape

* Proven experience representing the work of the digital team and demonstrating its contribution to overall organisation goals

* Experienced in meeting the Government's Digital Service Standards, designing a service that meets government accessibility requirements

* Experienced advocating for the importance of agile, iterative and user-centred methods as set out in the Government Service Manual

* Proven skills writing user stories and acceptance criteria

* Proven experience working closely with the developers to understand technical constraints and opportunities

* Proven experience of working closely with other team members on rapid prototyping and delivering at pace

* Proven experience planning user research priorities and sessions with user researcher

* Proven experience prioritising user needs (using qualitative and quantitative data) with the team and incorporating user research findings into product backlog

* Experience working on a high profile digital service with significant ministerial interest

* Experience managing digital specialist contractors

* Experience of working with policy teams

* Experience of working to the One Team Government principles