Senior Product Manager – Day Rate Contract

Overview

As a Product Manager at Version 1, you drive high-impact transformation for public and private sector clients. You set and defend vision at programme level, coordinate multiple teams, and surface cross‑organisational dependencies. You bring real user insights to inform priorities, shape propositions, and guide delivery with integrity. You work across disciplines to ensure outcomes that matter, balancing business and technical realities. This is a mission‑critical role in a collaborative, growth‑minded environment.

Pay / Benefits

• quarterly profit share
• career progression and mentorship
• flexible/remote working
• private healthcare
• pension with 5% employee matching
• wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

• Define and uphold the programme vision across teams, stakeholders, and suppliers
• Own and communicate the organisational roadmap, prioritising and sequencing work
• Frame problems before solutions by continuously discovering the right problems
• Champion the user with insights guiding priorities and trade-offs
• Govern suppliers and partners to align with shared goals and resolve tensions
• Navigate diplomacy to manage difficult conversations with tact
• Collaborate openly across disciplines (design, engineering, data, policy)
• Facilitate workshops and meetings to drive decisions and shared understanding
• Shape and secure incoming work by identifying high-value opportunities and crafting propositions
• Drive progress by taking ownership to deliver
• Deliver with integrity, including difficult conversations when needed

Key requirements

• Experienced product practitioner with proven impact
• User-centred mindset with a North Star focus on user needs
• Strategically minded, connecting user needs to business goals and delivery realities
• Storytelling ability to simplify complexity and align stakeholders
• Emotionally intelligent, able to build trust and manage disagreements respectfully
• Adaptable and able to onboard quickly in ambiguous environments
• Accountable, able to make tough calls and say no when needed for product success
• A multiplier who raises performance of the whole team

• curiosity
• empathy
• communication
• collaboration
• SFIA framework awareness
• DDaT framework awareness

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