Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

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UK Home OfficeOverview

These roles provide quality product management within a complex agile Programme, the Multi-Agency Public Protection Service (MAPPS). MAPPS will be used by various organisations including police, probation services and others. It is required to support a multi-agency oversight of relevant offenders once they are released from custody for as long as they are considered to present a risk to the public. As such MAPPS has a high political profile as well as a very complex network of stakeholders. The Programme is focused on providing parity with a legacy system. Once achieved there will be continuous improvement to meet customer needs beyond parity.You will be part of a team of Product Managers working within a wider multidisciplinary team with interaction designers, user researchers, developers and testers. Your aim will be to deliver world-class services that properly balance the needs of users of the system and strategic owners of the operations and policies. One of the roles will be focused on the strategic MAPPS Product and the long-term direction of its development, while others will be focused on elements of the overall Product and ensuring these elements are sufficiently understood for development teams to design and build them.What You’ll do

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.Work with Product Owners to represent user needs throughout delivery, championing user-centred design while ensuring these needs are well balanced with those of strategic owners of the system, operations and policy.Prioritise development work by maintaining a balanced product backlog that reflects both immediate needs and long-term business value.Ensure final sign-off on completed functionality by Product Owners before deployment to production environments.Use product data and user feedback to drive continuous improvement, 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.What you’ll bring

Demonstrable passion for both Product and Programme ways of working with strong experience in investigating patterns and trends to identify and resolve problems.Experience in delivering technology-based projects.Strong communication skills across written reports, verbal feedback, and presentations, with the ability to tailor to different audiences including large groups of users and strategic owners.Ability to balance the needs of users and strategic owners of products.Ability to respond to the needs of those leading a development such as a programme and to give those needs proper priority.Benefits

Meaningful Work: Contribute to critical national security and public service initiatives.Career Growth: Benefit from tailored development frameworks and professional communities.Flexible Working: Hybrid work options to balance professional and personal life.Diversity and Inclusion: A workplace that celebrates your background and talents.Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).Recognition and inclusion: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.Learn more about our Benefits - Home Office CareersSecurity and eligibility

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 last 5 years may be considered. Failure to meet this residency requirement will result in your security clearance application being rejected.Seniority level

Mid-Senior levelEmployment type

Full-timeJob function

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