Product Manager - FTC

We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to join Olive Jar Digital on a 6-month fixed-term contract, supporting the delivery and improvement of digital services in the public sector. You will play a key role in ensuring these services meet user needs, support strategic goals, and deliver measurable outcomes.

You will be working on a set of high-profile public sector digital services that play a key role in supporting national recruitment and training objectives. These services are widely used by both candidates and providers and form part of a larger digital ecosystem that underpins long-term workforce and education goals.

The vision is to ensure that services are user-centred, efficient, and scalable, enabling fair access, smoother processes, and better outcomes for users and stakeholders alike.

As a Product Manager, you will:

• Own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of new and existing features for teacher training recruitment services.

• Work with multidisciplinary Agile teams (design, engineering, data, and policy) to ensure services meet user needs and strategic outcomes.

• Collaborate across wider programme communities and relevant communities of practice.

• Manage backlogs, prioritisation, and feature delivery aligned to user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.

• Support continuous improvement through user research, feedback loops, and service data insights.

• Ensure services align with public sector digital standards and best practices, including accessibility, scalability, and sustainability.

• Document knowledge, artefacts, and information in appropriate repositories, adhering to process requirements.

• Engage with stakeholders to ensure effective communication, transparency, and buy-in at every stage of delivery.

Your work will focus on delivering against key service goals, including:

1. Reducing the number of unsuccessful outcomes for eligible candidates.

2. Increasing successful reapplications to suitable courses.

3. Enabling users to self-serve changes.

4. Monitoring and optimising application processing steps.

5. Ensuring services remain scalable and sustainable.

• Proven experience as a Product Manager (public sector/GDS environment preferred).

• Strong track record of delivering complex digital products in Agile environments.

• Knowledge of GDS service standards and government technology practices.

• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams including user researchers, designers, developers, and data specialists.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience of engaging senior stakeholders.

• Excellent communication, organisation, and prioritisation skills.

• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Trello, or similar.

• Certification such as Certified Scrum Product Owner, AgilePM, or equivalent (desirable).

• Duration: 6 months FTC

• Location: Hybrid (remote with occasional on-site in London)

• Start: ASAP