Lead Product Manager; Platform T&S & One Login - GDS - G6

Full-time (Permanent) National £67,972 - £75,275 London £73,280 - £83,027 including additional allowances
Published on 16 December 2025

Bristol, London, Manchester

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

• joining up public sector services
• harnessing the power of AI for the public good
• strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
• elevating leadership and investing in talent
• funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
• committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading  and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need

We are hiring Platform Product Leads across two Directorates:

• GDS’s central Technology & Security team: enabling developers across GDS
• One Login’s platform teams: enabling teams within a flagship programme

Products you’ll be managing will span Infrastructure and Data, including:

• cloud Platform, CI/CD, Observability, Fin Ops, Governance and Access Management
• data analytics, event streaming, shared signals, audit, data quality and back-ups

As a Lead Product Manager you’ll:

• be responsible fora product portfolio and will oversee multiple Platform Product Managers and their teams
• reporting to a Head of Product or a Deputy Director, you will guide prioritisation across products and ensure alignment with the organisation’s goals and strategy
• own and develop a product vision, strategy and roadmap for your Platform products and product teams
• own your teams’ “front door”, shaping incoming requests from stakeholders, and ensuring effective prioritisation decisions
• lead your teams to set clear, measurable, outcome-oriented goals (OKRs), balancing user-facing benefits with reliability, security and other service level considerations
• guide your teams to identify risky assumptions and carry out continuous internal discovery (quantitative and qualitative) to de-risk product decisions efficiently and ensure that teams release value to users early and often
• champion your products with internal teams, developing trusted relationships and securing adoption, to drive measurable benefits to productivity, reliability, security and costs
• help your products move through the product lifecycle (Discovery, Alpha, Beta), setting appropriate goals for user experience, reliability and security (e.g. via SLOs), managing stakeholder expectations, and maturing your products over time
• partner with Directors and Heads-of to evolve the overall platform strategy, bringing expert insights from users, thoughtful application of technology (including AI) and industry best practices in order to solve users’ problems
• coach, line manage and mentor your Product Managers, as well as others in the wider organisation
• champion our work across government and in the wider industry, providing thought leadership in both Platform product management and the best practices of your users

Learn more about what Lead Product Managers do in government.

You'll be keen to work on internal, technical platforms and to apply your product management skills to a platform-as-product approach. Prior experience of Platform Product Management is desirable but…