Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager: Pay up to £77,740 plus up to 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

Our Data and Analytics function is supporting DWP's route to cloud by transforming our data products and services.

As our Lead Product Manager for Data as a Service you will be joining a team responsible for the transformation of existing data products into agile-driven provider/consumer data feeds.

DWP is UK's largest department, every year we pay over £120 billion to 18million DWP customers.

DWP services cover everything from helping children & families right through to supporting relatives of lost loved ones. We help people find jobs, support people financially when they are unable to work due to health conditions and make ensure everybody has the money they need to live during their retirement years.

We are proud to be in the Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2022 list and a disability confident employer.

The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

Delivery. Work. Product.

You will be accountable for a portfolio of data enabling products. You be making evidenced based strategic and tactical product decisions, making key priority calls and owning a portfolio roadmap and vision.

You will be responsible for:

• Communicating product success to stakeholders
• Owning the product roadmap
• Leading a portfolio of data products known as Data as a Service
• Explaining controversial choices about your product
• Coaching less experienced Product Managers
• Making evidence-based strategic and tactical product choices
• Developing the product strategy
• making key priority calls

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• You'll have experience of setting the direction of the product, rallying the team, owning the vision and roadmap of the product and be that trusted voice
• Know how to put users first as part of a commitment to user-centred design and know how to achieve this amongst competing priorities including achieving value for the business
• Experience of making a decision in a time pressured situation
• Experience of applying influence and challenging the status quo so you can meet your vision
• Have experience of mentoring and coaching product people and teams to deliver highly quality products and services
• Experience of agile methodology, when to use it and when to not and how you move through the agile lifecycle.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You'll join us in our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office.

In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £77,740.

You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%.

You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 30 days over time, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

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