Principal Product Manager

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:

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.

In the following areas: 

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. 

 

 

 

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! 

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.

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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.

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