Job Description

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager for a 12 month contract (Inside IR35) based Hybrid in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester or Sheffield.

About the role:

Join the Department for Work and Pensions as a Senior Product Manager, shaping the future of Working Age Services. You'll lead product strategy and roadmap evolution across five technical teams, ensuring services align with organisational goals and deliver real impact for millions of citizens.



As a Senior Product Manager your main responsibilities will be to:

Own and evolve product roadmaps for multiple teams in a highly technical environment. Apply Agile principles and practices to deliver products efficiently and transparently. Collaborate with Delivery Leads and engineering teams to drive product vision and priorities. Work within DevOps and cloud-heavy environments, influencing technical decisions and aligning them to business outcomes. Communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and translate complex concepts into actionable plans. Ensure alignment with organisational strategy and GOV.UK service standards.

Essential:

Proven experience managing products at scale with technical teams. Strong background in Agile delivery and DevOps/cloud environments (AWS experience highly beneficial). Ability to develop and implement product strategies and roadmaps across multiple teams. Comfortable working with technical language and concepts (observability pipelines, containerisation, databases). Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Desirable:

Experience in public sector or GOV.UK service standards. Experience with AWS and modern containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), with an understanding of best practices.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.



Disability Confident



As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.



Armed Forces Covenant



DWP guarantees to interview?veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we?will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.



In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".