Hybrid Lead Product Manager

at Made Tech

• Job title: Lead Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £64,000 - £75,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Any UK Office Hub, United Kingdom

About the role

• Lead Product Manager at Made Tech enabling public sector organizations to better design services. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to guide and coach product delivery processes.

Responsibilities

• As the Lead Product Manager, you will work on complex engagements and when necessary at programme level for those that are high risk or sensitive.
• You will support recruitment, interviewing and onboarding of new team members and line managers up to three Senior Product Managers.
• You will provide strategic direction within the community of practice and coach & mentor others.
• Lead Product Managers are expert practitioners of product management practices, principles and approaches.
• As an effective leader, you will help drive decisions that deliver successful outcomes.
• Your main responsibilities will be achieved, by applying the following practices, within engagements:
• Apply Agile and Lean practices, innovate, and advocate for best approaches.
• Provide expert consultancy to stakeholders and lead on the development of guidance on all UCP services.
• Own financial and strategic aspects of product management.
• Drive success through the full product life cycle and operational management.
• Anticipate & solve problems and build problem-solving capabilities in others.
• Lead product and strategic ownership, ensuring user needs are met.

Requirements

• Experience in helping grow product teams through community, hiring and line management.
• Excellent understanding and passionate articulation of the value of product and user-centred design.
• Experience and evidence of delivering user centred products and services from ideation through to maintenance phases.
• Experience of assisting to develop product communities of practice as a leader or leading member of a high-performing practice.
• Ability to support and coach others to grow their skills, product capabilities and to take on more responsibility for client-facing projects.
• Able to educate and mentor team members, colleagues and peers in the wider business on developing product and agile delivery as a core discipline.
• Experienced in working directly with customers and users, and able to drive teams to deliver excellent outcomes for users.
• Working within a design consultancy/senior product leadership role in the public sector, health or allied areas.
• Strong empathy and relationship building skills.

Benefits

• 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave
• Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
• Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
• Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
• Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice