Natsec Senior Product Manager, zaizi

SFIA 5

£70-92k

Senior and Expert level

London

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Public sector data consultancy

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Public sector data consultancy

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseMachine LearningSaaSCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

£70-92k

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseMachine LearningSaaSCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Company mission

To make the Uk the best and safest place to live and work.

Job

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Role

Who you are

The client has specifically asked for someone to challenge their thinking and shake things up
Can you motivate and lead multidisciplinary delivery teams?
Are you a champion of Agile ways of working?
Do you enjoy working with passionate, selfless and open-minded people?
Do you want to work in an environment that encourages collaboration and learning?
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
Product management - able to develop and maintain product roadmaps, define minimum viable product, and make good decisions about priorities with sometimes limited information
Agile working - strong experience working as part of Agile or Kanban 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
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
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
DV Clearance is essential for a successful candidate
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
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
To be able to work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers

What the job involves

Zaizi is looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager who will be working with a secure government client to help them develop user focused roadmaps for critical products
The products are complex and of national importance. You will have full autonomy to work as you see fit, and will be supported by experienced agile multi-disciplinary teams to work with users to co-design, prioritise and bring your ideas to life
Lead one or more multidisciplinary Agile teams to identify problems, co-design and deliver solutions that find the balance between users needs, organisation goals and sustainability. solutions.deliver results at all stages in the product lifecycle, including Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live
Form an effective partnership with client product owners and stakeholders
Lead on negotiation about the most value outcomes we can deliver
Improve the product management capability at Zaizi by mentoring and coaching others
These are the expected objectives for this role. We are happy to discuss this further during the interview process and jointly agree with the successful candidate

Application process

1st stage:
Initial phone screening done by a member of the recruitment team
2nd stage:
Technical interview, this stage evaluates your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities, especially if you're applying for a technical role
Final Stage:
10-15 min presentation and a panel interview where multiple people from different departments ask you questions
Nat Hinds-Head of Talent
Kayla Kirby-Talent Acquisition Specialist

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Digital data consultancy, zaizi, designs, and engineers secure user-centred digital services to help UK government departments and public sector organisations improve their data usage.

By aiding clients to overcome silos and focus on user-based decision-making, zaizi prioritise outcomes over output and aims to produce high-impact work that helps clients achieve their goals and in turn offer the best for their users.

Working with the UK government and Carbon Neutral Britain, zaizi is part of a campaign aiming to push zero emissions nationwide and hopes to become a B Corp company in the near future.