Natsec Product Manager

Join Zaizi, a leading digital transformation agency, as a Senior Product Manager. In this role, you will work with a secure government client to develop user-focused roadmaps for critical products of national importance. You will lead multidisciplinary Agile teams, form effective partnerships with client product owners and stakeholders, and improve the product management capability at Zaizi. The position offers a range of benefits, including 25 days of paid holiday, health insurance, flexible working, and a budget for learning and development.

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary Agile teams to identify problems, co-design, and deliver solutions that balance user needs, organizational goals, and sustainability.
• Form effective partnerships with client product owners and stakeholders, leading negotiations to achieve the most valuable outcomes.
• Mentor and coach others to improve product management capabilities at Zaizi, sharing expertise in product ownership and lifecycle management.
• The client has specifically asked for someone to challenge their thinking and shake things up
• Can you motivate and lead multidisciplinary delivery teams?
• Do you want to work in an environment that encourages collaboration and learning?
• Are you a champion of Agile ways of working?
• Do you enjoy working with passionate, selfless and open-minded people?
• Analysis and research - be comfortable using a range of evidence, including performance data and user research, to support decisions. Able to concisely articulate evidence, and the rationale for decisions
• Stakeholder management - able to facilitate buy-in from senior management, the wider organisation and multidisciplinary team. Also able to effectively partner with clients to understand their problems and ensure these are being addressed
• Communication - excellent written and verbal communications skills. Ability to concisely explain complicated things in plain English, create and deliver effective presentations, and write clear and effective user stories
• DV Clearance is essential for a successful candidate
• Agile working - strong experience working as part of Agile or Kanban teams
• User focus - understand users (who they are, what their needs are, how they behave and how they change over time) and deliver products and services that meet these needs. You can prioritise users’ most pressing needs, and are able to coach others to do the same
• Product ownership - as an expert in product management, be able to use a range of techniques to work with a multidisciplinary team and translate user needs into deliverables. This includes writing stories and acceptance criteria, and the ability to to work with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams
• Lifecycle experience - able to successfully lead teams through the full product lifecycle, including Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live and identify tools and techniques to be used at each stage
• Product management - able to develop and maintain product roadmaps, define minimum viable product, and make good decisions about priorities with sometimes limited information
• To be able to work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers