Senior Product Manager

Justice Digital and Technology ,
London, Greater London
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Description Salary: 58,130 to 67,500 depending on skills and experience Contract type: Permanent Grade: MoJ Band Ab Number of open roles: 1 Location: London Hours: 37 hours/week (42 hours incl. lunch) Working pattern: flexible working, full time Closing date for applications: 1st July 2020 Interview date: 15th July 2020 Interview location: Video Call Introduction These are exciting times at MOJ Digital and Technology. We have a clear vision - to develop a digitally-enabled justice system that works more simply for users - and we're looking for talented people to help us achieve it. We're making things better by building adaptable, effective services and making systems that are simple to use for staff and citizens. It can be challenging but it's also important and rewarding. As well as doing great work, we're creating a place that's great to do work in. We offer a tip-top kit, brilliant training opportunities and support from expert colleagues. On top of that, you'll find flexible working, inclusive culture and a place where your opinion is valued. The products Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Digital and Technology has a diverse portfolio of products and services to suit a wide range of product management skills. We are a mature, in-house software development team, increasingly building services with both public and professional user interfaces, using our APIs and cloud hosting platform. The product you are placed on will be agreed closer to your start date but examples of products include: * software that enables to build services for the public, like 'MoJ FormBuilder': * software for internal users, like our intranet * Our portfolio of public-facing websites for MOJ's Arm's Length Bodies, public inquiries, and specialist recruitment: The role As Senior Product Manager you will be an experienced product manager leading a multidisciplinary team, supporting and continuously improving products of significant scale and complexity. You will take products through discovery, alpha, beta and live phases of development with the goal of making government services simpler, easier and faster to use. You will devise and iterate the product roadmap and backlog, be a champion for user needs, document product knowledge, and communicate plans and progress through various channels including the blog, stakeholder meetings and demos. You will also be an active part of the broader product management community, coaching and mentoring Associate Product Managers and Product Managers, supporting the quality assessment of your colleagues' products (known as 'service assessment'), and sharing learning and new techniques with the community. As a Senior Product Manager for the MOJ you will work with other delivery agencies within the justice system, central government departments, and the wider public sector to transform public services. Senior Product Managers at the MOJ lead exciting services that improve lives. It is an opportunity to work with committed and talented user researchers, developers, designers, analysts, agile, and content specialists who share a vision for making better government through smarter use of technology. Our product management profession is described on GOV.UK: Skills and experience We're looking for an individual with strong interpersonal skills who likes working in a delivery focused, agile environment with multidisciplinary teams. You also contribute to the wider Product Manager community and share you skills and experiences with others across the MOJ, and across government. The skills you need as a Product Manager are summarised below and you can get more information at GOV.UK: manager-skills-they-need Skills needed for this role * Agile working. You know how to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project. You can think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes. You are able to act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. (Relevant skill level: expert) * DDaT perspective. You can demonstrate an advanced understanding of design, technology and data principles. You know how to identify and implement solutions for assisted digital. You can apply knowledge to work with other job families. (Relevant skill level: practitioner) * Experience of working within constraints. You can work with and challenge senior stakeholders. You know how to prioritise and mitigate constraints and can turn them into an advantage. You can adapt the approach depending on the constraints. (Relevant skill level: practitioner) * Financial ownership. You understand the marketplace, realising the benefit and persuading others that a product is the right one to use. You can integrate a product with other services. You can ensure that products get used. You know how to realise benefits by linking work in progress back to the business case. You can bu

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