Job Description
At Version 1, we are solving complex, meaningful problems that deliver impact. Working with leading public and private sector organisations across the UK and Ireland, we deliver important, real‑world outcomes. For example, we help ensure prisoners are released at the right time, reduce the cost of recruiting teachers for schools, and establish product‑centric ways of working in some of the world’s most prestigious businesses.
Role Overview
Our Product Managers sit at the heart of these transformations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead with vision – set a clear direction and reinforce it through team discussions, planning sessions, and stakeholder updates.
- Frame problems before solutions – continuously discover, ask the right questions, and ensure the team is solving the right problem.
- Champion the user – bring real user insight into every conversation and every decision.
- Collaborate openly – work across disciplines as true problem‑solving partners.
- Facilitate with purpose – run workshops and meetings that lead to clear decisions and shared understanding.
- Shape and secure work – turn client needs into high‑value opportunities, develop strong propositions, and bring together teams to deliver impact.
- Set others up for success – equip your team and others with the structure, guidance and frameworks needed to deliver effectively.
- Drive progress – take ownership and ensure momentum, including turning around teams when needed.
- Deliver with integrity – do the right thing, including having difficult conversations when needed.
Qualifications
- Proven – strong track record of leading end‑to‑end product delivery, from shaping the problem through to delivering measurable impact.
- User‑centred – the needs of the people you are building for are always your north star.
- Commercially aware – understand how product decisions relate to commercial realities.
- Strategically minded – connect the dots between user needs, business goals, commercial opportunities, and delivery realities.
- A storyteller – make the complex simple and craft compelling narratives.
- Emotionally intelligent – read a room, build trust, navigate disagreement with respect.
- Adaptable – thrive in ambiguity, bring structure where there is none, onboard quickly.
- Accountable – make tough calls, hold yourself and others to account, say no when needed to ensure product success.
- A multiplier and mentor – drive teams forward, develop skills and confidence.
- A wave‑maker – challenge thinking across the organisation, redefine best practice, push for better ways of working.
Benefits & Perks
We offer a hybrid schedule, business travel, private medical and life insurance, eye tests, contributions to glasses, a tech scheme for staying updated, incentives for certifications, a profit share scheme, and quarterly career development programmes.
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