Principal Product Manager
Job description
Our Principal Product Managers are responsible for leading and delivering on strategically significant and complex client engagements across our portfolio of public sector clients.
We believe that great delivery stems from:
- a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs
- strong practice skills and subject matter expertise
- excellent leadership
- a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment
- the ability to translate meaningful strategy into effective implementation
We expect our Principal Product Managers to bring all of this and to enthuse our design teams and clients with the same passion.
The successful candidate will lead the Product Management aspects of one or more of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate.
They will bring thought leadership and best-practice, honed through hands-on experience in both the private and public sector. They will work with user researchers, service designers, business analysts, data analysts and client product owners to make ongoing recommended improvements to drive better user and business outcomes.
They will often be responsible for creating a product vision helping to translate it into a UX strategy that can deliver a category leading user experience, driving impact and reach across multiple user groups.
Working in an Agile delivery setting alongside product designers, the Principal Product Manager will oversee and be responsible for the hands on delivery of product improvements and end to end journeys across all channels including app and web.
They will be comfortable blending the just in time delivery of key product artefacts into the delivery teams with continuous discovery and ideation of longer term features and usability improvements.
They will also coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction.
In addition, our Principal Product Managers are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple and concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries.
Role Overview
Our Principal Product Managers are members of the Strategy and Design Practice leadership team. Part of their responsibility is to develop the capability of the practice to meet business needs and to accelerate the growth of the practice, their account and the wider business.
Principal Product Managers are responsible for the practice and service line-specific delivery elements of an engagement/ account as well as shared ownership for the overall delivery of client outcomes. They leverage client and delivery insight to support the account and industry teams to identify opportunities and develop client solutions.
The right person for this role will do this by combining their Product Management experience, leadership skills and industry network with Made Tech's unparalleled experience of delivering digital services and digital transformation for the Public Sector.
Key responsibilities
- Collaborate with clients to understand their needs and provide solution advice in your role as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials.
- Assess project performance as a part of the billable delivery team, QA Product Management deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction.
- Deliver Product Management elements alongside client and Made Tech delivery teams.
- Coach and mentor team members as well as providing direction to enable them to achieve their engagement outcomes and to help support and develop their careers.
- Act as a Product Manager to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices. Ensure engagement experience is captured and used to improve standards and contribute to Made Tech knowledge.
- Work as part of a wider consulting team on large scale transformation and lead change projects in the public sector.
- Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre-sales within the account, industry and practice. Coach team members on their contributions and oversee the relevant technical aspects of the proposal submission.
- Undertake people management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of your engagement and practice colleagues.
- Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements ,the wider public sector, and represent the company at industry events.
Skills, knowledge and expertise
In the following areas:
- Client relationship building and public sector expertise
- Leadership
- Practice and industry growth
- Craft Product Management skills
- People Management
At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Get in touch with our talent team if you’d like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly, so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies.
Security Clearance
An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.
Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.
Our application process
The process will include an initial call with a member of our talent team, two-stage interview process with our Strategy & Design team before a final meet with our Managing Director - we’re invested in supporting you to be a success here!
Support in applying
If you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com.
We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.
When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a member of our talent team who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. We’ve put together this blog as a resource to share more about reasonable adjustments and some examples of what this could include. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.
Job benefits
We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).
Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.
Benefits
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.
Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:
- 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays
- 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
How we hire
Our hiring process is designed to be thorough, transparent, and supportive, guiding candidates through each step. The exact process may vary slightly depending on the role but these are the typical steps candidates can expect.
We’ll keep you updated throughout the process and provide helpful feedback at each stage. No matter the outcome, we make sure the feedback is useful and supportive, so you feel informed and can learn from the experience.
Our talent team will review all applications, and while we may use AI to help speed up the process, a real human will always make the final decisions. Once reviewed, shortlisted applicants will be invited to a screening.
This is a 25-30 minute call with someone in our talent team who is hiring for the role.
Once screenings have taken place the hiring manager will review the shortlist and invites to interview will be sent.
You may then be invited to an initial virtual interview which is usually with the hiring manager or a couple of members from the team. This is usually around 45 – 60 minutes and the format may vary depending on the role.
If you progress, you’ll be invited to a final stage interview which is usually with two members of the team. The format varies depending on the role and this is usually an hour.
Final conversation with one of our exec members.
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