Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee the integrated roadmap for SMART AI products while ensuring that product backlogs are prioritized according to agreed-upon objectives.

• Facilitate backlog refinement and sprint planning across multiple products in collaboration with Product Specialists.

• Develop prioritization recommendations and implement agreed decisions into scheduled tasks.

• Verify that work items are complete, estimated, and prepared prior to the start of a sprint.

• Coordinate efforts among Product, Delivery, and Engineering teams, monitoring progress and aligning priorities and statuses.

• Organize and sequence engineering work queues, ensuring visibility into capacity, dependencies, and ongoing work.

• Manage the shared platform backlog and monitor dependencies between the platform and the products developed on it.

• Facilitate client User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and oversee work through the release process.

• Generate reports on roadmaps, progress, queue status, and backlog health.

• Assist in the delivery of AI products related to conversational AI, copilots, automation, and intelligent insights for public-sector organizations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in maintaining a product backlog or roadmap as a Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a similar delivery role within technology, AI, or software.

• A systematic and organized approach to managing competing requests across various products or teams.

• Confidence in collaborating with product, client-facing, delivery, and engineering teams, including leading planning and refinement sessions.

• Exceptional attention to detail while reviewing work items, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies.

• Practical knowledge of how software is designed, developed, and released.

• Familiarity with GenAI, large language models, and agentic AI to effectively discuss feasibility and sequencing.

• Strong written communication skills and a disciplined approach to decision documentation.

• Eligibility to work in the UK.

• Experience using Azure DevOps Boards, delivery plans, or similar tools.

• Background in Scrum, Kanban, or flow-based work management methodologies.

• Exposure to AI-assisted or agentic software delivery.

• Experience with SaaS products, cloud platforms, or shared platform dependencies.

• Background in local government or broader public sector service delivery.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• £100 per month working-from-home allowance.

• Vitality Healthcare Plan.

• Pension scheme.

• 25 days’ holiday.

• Support for relevant professional development and qualifications.

• Occasional travel to Basingstoke and client sites.