Product Manager ​/ Senior Product Manager

Salary £53,000 – £68,000 (FTE) per annum Contract Full-time, permanent, with flexible working options available. Location Anywhere in the UK, with some national travel required to meet teams and clients. Office locations are London and Leeds. Final date to receive applications 18/09/2026

• Interest-free season ticket loans, electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave depending on your situation
• Pension with up to 6% matching contribution from dxw
• Flexible working to support your wellbeing and personal commitments
• Macbook and home office setup budget

As a Product Manager at dxw, you’ll shape the scope and direction of digital products and services in complex public and third sector environments.

This is a hands-on delivery role where you’ll work within multidisciplinary teams to define product vision, shape roadmaps and prioritise impactful delivery. You’ll keep things focused on achieving meaningful outcomes for users and measurable value for client organisations.

You’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy, balancing user and business needs, organisational strategy, policy constraints and technical feasibility.

You’ll also be part of dxw’s community of practice, working alongside other product managers, as well as delivery leads, business analysts, data specialists and other experts to ensure the continued quality of our work. You’ll receive support and guidance from a Principal Product Manager and collaborate closely with the wider team to strengthen practice and share learning.

We are looking for either a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager – we’ll adjust the seniority and salary of the role to reflect the experience of the successful candidate. To join at the Senior level, we’re looking for proven experience operating with a high degree of autonomy in complex environments, and the ability to coach others alongside your delivery responsibilities.

Product vision and strategy

• Define and communicate a clear product vision aligned to user needs and organisational goals.
• Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and prioritised backlogs.
• Lead informed prioritisation decisions based on value, risk, cost and feasibility.
• Ensure product direction is grounded in research, insight and evidence.

Multidisciplinary delivery

• Lead product work within agile, multidisciplinary teams.
• Collaborate closely with user researchers, designers, engineers and delivery leads.
• Maintain focus on outcomes and measurable impact.
• Manage products through discovery, alpha, beta and live phases.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops and decision-making sessions.
• Communicate product direction, trade-offs and progress clearly.
• Manage competing priorities and navigate ambiguity in complex environments.

Performance and value

• Define and track meaningful OKRs, KPIs and service performance metrics, which align with each client’s approach to measuring success.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insight to inform decisions.
• Support business case development and benefits realisation.
• Embed feedback loops to enable continuous improvement.

Contributing to practice

• Champion outcome-focused, evidence-led product management, and share learning and good practice across dxw.
• Contribute to client proposals and early shaping of digital service work.
• Participate in product management discussions within the sector, which might include conferences, blog posts, and participating in clients’ communities of practice.

You have experience shaping digital products and are motivated by the opportunity to improve public services.

You:

• Have effectively managed digital products or services through different stages of the product lifecycle.
• Are confident in shaping and taking accountability for product direction in complex environments.
• Build trust and buy-in with stakeholders around an agreed vision and strategy.
• Balance user needs, business value and technical constraints effectively.
• Make structured, evidence-based prioritisation decisions.
• Define and use measures of success and performance metrics to guide strategy.
• Communicate clearly with technical…