Product Manager

DSIT • Full-time • United Kingdom • from £46.95k / year • 9h ago

Job summary

We are recruiting for two Product Managers to join our Digital Change team.

As a Product Manager you will play a key role in shaping services that truly work for our people and customers. You'll lead on developing products that are designed and optimised around real user needs, ensuring every solution delivers genuine value and aligns with the Government Service Standard. Working autonomously on your own products, and alongside Senior Product Managers on more complex services, you will help to drive meaningful transformation. You'll collaborate with fellow product managers and the service owner to build a deep understanding of the end-to-end user experience, applying a service design approach to improve and modernise the way our services are delivered.

The post holder will work with high-achieving professionals at all levels, surrounded by a friendly and supportive team. They will have access to amazing benefits, such as flexible working hours, the Civil Service Pension Scheme, and 32.5 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. We offer a hybrid working model, so you may also choose to spend a proportion of time working from home.

Job description

Please refer to the job specification for further information.

Person specification

Please refer to the job specification for further information.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture
Changing and Improving
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Ability to communicate design decisions and technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience of identifying and meeting user needs through product design, achieved through effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
Knowledge of different disciplines and how they contribute to an effective agile team, such as service design, user research, business analysis and development.
Good agile planning and prioritisation skills with ability to meet changing demands and deadlines.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,954, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills contributes £13,602 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Full details of the benefits available can be found in our Ofsted Offer brochure.

Ofsted is devoted to equality, diversity and inclusion. Within our Ofsted Strategy 2023-2027 we have stated that we will improve the representation of under-represented groups across the organisation and publish our progress on this annually. We are always looking to expand on our diverse workforce by recruiting candidates from varied backgrounds and differing experiences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident – Leader, we continually engage with our 5 staff networks for protected characteristics, and highlight the work of our Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Group. We ensure all candidates are treated with fair and open competition, with all appointments being made on merit and we use our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) to provide assurance to all candidates of this.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Application and shortlisting

The selection panel will assess your application based on your evidence you have provided against the essential criteria as set out in the person specification.

You will also be asked to provide information within the “Employer/Activity History” section of the application form. This information is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV setting out your career history (this may be used in the sifting process).

Assessment and Interview

Candidates who pass the benchmark at the shortlisting stage will be invited to an interview where you will be assessed against a combination of the the Civil Service behaviours and the technical/experience skills set out in section 3 of the job specification.

Assessments and Interviews will be held during the week commencing Monday 20 April 2026 remotely via Microsoft Teams.