Product Manager

Product Manager

Product Manager (Fulltime) - Salary - £43,393 to £51,050 (dependent on experience) - Hybrid working

Our OS Product team is looking for people to help inspire the organisation and our customers, to go 'somewhere new', by building and enhancing a portfolio of next generation data, services, and platforms.

Join us as we transform OS, deliver commercial growth, and empower our customers to meet their goals. Most of all, you'll play a critical role in helping OS to realise its vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.

About the role

We are looking for a Product Manager to play a key role in managing our products, which are used by customers across the Public Sector and OS Partners for a wide range of applications. The Products team is at the heart of our business, helping us realise our ambition and purpose as a world leading geospatial data organisation.

This specific role is to lead the development of our Topographic theme of data within our Core Data Services Platform (CDSP).

You will play a pivotal role in shaping the product roadmap, aligning with the multi-year product vision and Technology capability roadmaps.

You will work closely with interdisciplinary teams to break down high level requirements into user stories to build and maintain the development backlogs.

Within this role you will be expected to

• Provide direction to one or more product development teams
• Work alongside multiple Product teams to gain a holistic understanding of the market outcomes we are seeking to achieve
• Provide expert planning and prioritisation, maintaining a focus on customer and internal outcomes within the wider scope of the product vision and roadmap
• Translate high level business requirements into user stories with clear value and purpose
• Collaborate across your team to ensure the development backlogs are refined and prioritised

What we're looking for

You will likely be a self-starting professional with an interest in technology and data.

You may have a background in digital platforms, data, software, and services whether for start-ups, large organisations or within the public sector and are looking to take on a new challenge.

To be the successful candidate you must demonstrate your track record against the following criteria in your application

• Excellent Product ownership with experience championing your products and propositions internally and externally to ensure the execution of product-led investment programmes, external communications, and sales engagement to achieve within-year revenue targets
• Excellent understanding of customer needs and market insight, with the ability to translate this into a product roadmap for future product development
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with operational and customer facing colleagues and external partners to deliver product enhancements within expected targets
• Experience of backlog management and prioritisation, preferably in Azure DevOps
• Experience of working with Agile delivery methodologies and confidence leading team ceremonies
• Comfortable with technical concepts and discussions, as well as communicating with business stakeholders, project managers, architects, and data specialists
• Commitment to relevant professional development and market understanding to continue to provide the appropriate support to the business
• Experience in or strong understanding of digital platforms or geospatial data is also desirable but not essential
• Product owner certification is also desirable but not essential

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done.

• Salary - £43,393 to £51,050 (dependent on experience)
• Performance related bonus up to 10%
• A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%)
• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining additional to bank holidays (3 taking over Christmas)
• Paid maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Free subscription to OS Maps
• Access to online learning platforms
• Coaching and Mentoring schemes
• Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like

• An extra days' leave for each year you work, up to 33 days
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working
• Free onsite parking at our modern HQ in Southampton
• We adopt flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances
• Eyecare Vouchers
• OS Explorers Nursery discount
• Cycle to Work scheme

Location: We embrace a hybrid working model at OS and understand there is no one size fits all in relation to how we work. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire which you will be required to attend as your work dictates for important in person team or stakeholder meetings / training, with the remaining time being a personal choice as to whether you work from home or spend more time at OSHQ.

Security

OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some of our roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if additional clearance will be required for this role.

Closing date: Sunday 07 July 2024

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together - in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.

We are looking for enthusiastic people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.

We're individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want