Product Manager

We are looking for 3 x Product Managers to lead prioritisation, backlog creation and product development within our 3 multidisciplinary teams, in line with the council’s bold new digital strategy (see https://strategy.croydon.digital) This is an initial 2 year fixed term contract, £50,448 – £52,482.

You will be experienced in agile working and team development, including building up capability and leading through culture change. We are at the beginning of our journey and need an agile anchor to steer and guide staff who have not worked in this way before. You will be an evangelist for product thinking and agile working.

Working closely with the delivery manager, you will be able to identify blockers and successfully deliver transformational change. We want to develop an effective, efficient, adaptive organisation that make services so good that people prefer to use them.

You will be ensuring that the standards of the digital service are high and remain high. This will mean having a sharp focus on our local digital declaration commitments and making sure that our products complete service standard assessments.

An engaging communicator, you will understand the importance of taking time to ensure stakeholders understand and are part of the process.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a Product Manager in an enthusiastic, optimistic digital service with a lot of work to do to create a truly digital council and borough.