Product Managers

Come along and meet us at our virtual recruitment event in Manchester on Friday 28th June. It’s a great chance to connect, meet and potentially get hired.

Here at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives.

Find out more about what it's like to work in a digital, data and technology role at DLUHC including our culture, ways of working, career progression and staff benefits. You can also read the DLUHC Digital blog to learn about the work we're doing.

This role will initially be a 23-month fixed-term contract and based in our Manchester office where we offer a hybrid-approach to working.

What you’ll do as a Product Manager

• develop an expert understanding of our users’ needs and champion these in the continuous delivery of a product

• develop and prioritise a product backlog, writing good user stories and making decisions based on data to improve the user experience

• engage our end user community and stakeholders through a range of channels to encourage feedback and open dialogue about usage and functionality of the product

• define and set measurable KPIs for your service, as well as have responsibility for system design and operations

• lead and direct a 3rd party delivery team to ensure the right things are delivered and that the department knows when to expect them

• responsible for management of short and long-term digital projects as well as oversight of the digital systems used by the teams to deliver their services

• work flexibly across functions, managing your own workload and providing digital support for emerging priority work streams across our teams

What we’re looking for

• experience of managing and delivering solutions to meet issues and problems that arise from day-to-day operations and through project delivery

• experience of building relationships and working collaboratively to achieve jointly agreed operational and project goals

• experience of 'user focus’ in your previous roles. We’re interested in how you have identified key users, their needs and the impact of a service on their ability to deliver in their roles

• knowledge of the range of available technology choices and can make informed decisions based on user need and value for money

• knowledge of the operational process of designing and running a product throughout its entire product life cycle

• Experience of engaging with partners, stakeholders and users