Product Manager - Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills - SEO

Location

23 Stephenson Street, Birmingham, 2 Rivergate, Bristol, Piccadilly Gate, Manchester or Loxley House, Nottingham

About the job

Job summary

We are recruiting for two Product Managers to join our Digital Change team. 

As a Product Manager you will play a key role in shaping services that truly work for our people and customers. You'll lead on developing products that are designed and optimised around real user needs, ensuring every solution delivers genuine value and aligns with the Government Service Standard. Working autonomously on your own products, and alongside Senior Product Managers on more complex services, you will help to drive meaningful transformation. You'll collaborate with fellow product managers and the service owner to build a deep understanding of the end-to-end user experience, applying a service design approach to improve and modernise the way our services are delivered. 

The post holder will work with high-achieving professionals at all levels, surrounded by a friendly and supportive team. They will have access to amazing benefits, such as flexible working hours, the Civil Service Pension Scheme, and 32.5 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. We offer a hybrid working model, so you may also choose to spend a proportion of time working from home.

Job description

Please refer to the job specification for further information.

Person specification

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Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Ability to communicate design decisions and technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience of identifying and meeting user needs through product design, achieved through effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of different disciplines and how they contribute to an effective agile team, such as service design, user research, business analysis and development.
• Good agile planning and prioritisation skills with ability to meet changing demands and deadlines.