Description
Product Manager
6 months with the option to extend another 6 weeks
Remote.
£600 per day. Outside IR35
We're looking for a product manager to join us to work on the roadmap and Alpha for the training and support offering for the leadership and teams/squads the Centre support within the Welsh Public Sector.
You'll be supporting the Head of Digital Skills and Capability and you will be responsible for the development of our skills and capability roadmap, service and product development.
As Product Manager
- Provide direction & leadership for multidisciplinary agile product teams
- Define, explain and iterate a product vision that's compelling to users, team, stakeholders
- Develop and prioritise a product backlog, writing good user stories, making decisions based on evidence
- Own, be responsible for developing and articulating a clear vision, achievable goals and measurable objectives, which are aligned to the goals and objectives for building digital skills and capability
- Lead engagement with stakeholders, users and partner organisations, by running demos, blogging, facilitating workshops
- Coaching, mentoring CDPS team and stakeholders to help them understand the value of product management
Essential Skills
- Demonstrable experience leading teams/products through discovery, Alpha, beta and live phases
- Recent evidence of creating and developing product strategies
- Demonstrable evidence of deep agile understanding and experience
- Evidence that you have a thorough understanding of a variety of disciplines involved in digital delivery, including engineering, service-design, performance analysis and user research developed through working in multidisciplinary teams
- Recent evidence of engagement with stakeholders with varying levels of understanding of user centred design and agile
- Demonstrable evidence of managing complex stakeholder situations
- Recent evidence of coaching and identifying learning opportunities
Desirable Skills
- Professional-level fluency in Welsh language
- Demonstrable experience of working in the Welsh Public Sector
- Experience or interested in learning and development