Digital Product Manager

About the IPO

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trademarks and copyright. Our ambition is to be the best IP office, and we intend to achieve this by:

• Delivering excellent IP services
• Creating a world leading IP environment
• Making the IPO a brilliant place to work

Our Transformation Programme

We are part-way through an ambitious, five-year plan to completely transform the Intellectual Property Office and how we interact with our customers. We have developed a suite of ground-breaking Digital Products that are ready to release to our customers and we are approaching phase two where we will extend those products to cover the rest of our organisation.

This is an exciting time where we first start to realise our key transformation objectives to

• Deliver the best tools to enable our people to excel
• Provide outstanding, customer-focused services
• Unleash the power of our data to help drive economic growth
• Enable and accelerate UK innovation
• Become global IP leaders

Person Specification

• Background in Digital Product Management with a solid record of delivering against a prioritised backlog
• strong understanding of Agile methodologies and practices
• Leading Agile multi-disciplinary delivery teams
• Managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong decision-making abilities
• Strong presentation and communication skills across a variety of situations and levels of stakeholders

Working Style

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our NewportOffice.

Please note that the frequency of workplace attendance for IPO staff is currently under review and may be subject to change.

Benefits

• Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
• Access to Microsoft’s ESI training suite
• Pension: 27.1% - 27.9% employer contributions
• Hybrid working with no core hours
• Substantial support for career progression
• 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
• You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave