22961 - Lead Product Manager (National)


Company:	Ministry of Justice
Salary:	£71,381 to £85,257 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	National, NP10 8FZ
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 3 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	18 Oct 2026

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Summary

Lead Product Manager

Location: National*

Closing Date: 18th October

Interviews: Week commencing October 26th

Grade: Grade 6

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**: £75,674 - £85,257 which may include an allowance up to £4,801 [London]

£71,381 - £80,419 [National]

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 2

Vacancy number: 22961

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

We’re recruiting for two Lead Product Managers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative teams in Prisons Digital and the Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

OCTO sets technical direction across the organisation. It defines standards, shapes shared platforms and ways of working, and supports teams to build and operate systems that are secure, reliable and sustainable

Prison Digital is working to create the tools that support the Prison Service to provide decent, safe and productive places to live and work and support prisons to protect the public & reduce reoffending. We work with our users in prisons to provide modern tools that share information and give staff focused efficiency.

These roles align against Lead Product Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

Lead Product Managers are accountable for the success of groups of products and services, ensuring they deliver value for users and the organisation. They are responsible for the leadership, development and performance management of product managers within their area, while remaining hands-on in shaping product strategy and supporting delivery.

Lead Product Managers define and embed product management standards, practices and ways of working. They are experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams to discover, deliver and continuously improve products and services of significant scale and complexity.

As a Lead Product Manager, you will have a proven ability to develop product visions, strategies and roadmaps, using user insight, data and evidence to drive decision-making. This is a high-impact role where you will align teams around outcomes, manage competing priorities, and make effective trade-offs to maximise value.

As a product leader in our organisation, you will have a proven record of working with senior leaders, stakeholders and delivery partners.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.

• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.

• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.

• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.

• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be a visible product leader, applying your expert level product management skills by leading and supporting multidisciplinary product teams through the full product lifecycle, from discovery through to product retirement.

• Lead strategy development for your products and teams to create an articulate vision and achievable goals. You will iterate the product strategy and roadmap for an area of the justice digital portfolio which meets customer and organisation expectations, across digital and non-digital delivery, influencing and gaining support from senior leadership/stakeholders to gain buy-in.

• Represent your products and build strategic and collaborative win-win partnerships with stakeholders, colleagues, other government departments and policy, to design products that are aligned to organisation and government strategy.

• Role model the civil service values and behaviours to all those that you work with, supporting and leading a thriving, vibrant professional community of product managers, working with the Head of profession to teach, coach, mentor and continually contribute to mature an engaged product network across MoJ.

• Ensure that the deliveries within your product areas add value by advocating and championing user needs, product vision, and MoJs mission, helping us to support the future.

• Lead difficult and complex situations, anticipate problems, work within constraints and guide teams through complex decision making.to reach reasonable and acceptable conclusions for your stakeholders. If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

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