About the Role
Version 1 is seeking a Product Manager to join their growing, passionate 20+ strong Product community within the Transformation Design Group. This role involves working with leading public and private sector organisations to solve complex, meaningful problems and deliver real-world outcomes. Product Managers are central to these transformations, embedding within client teams to build capability and leave things better than found.
Responsibilities
- Lead with vision, setting a clear direction and reinforcing it through team discussions, planning sessions, and stakeholder updates.
- Frame problems before solutions by continuously discovering, asking the right questions, and ensuring the team is solving the right problem.
- Champion the user by bringing real user insight into every conversation and decision, ensuring it shapes priorities and trade-offs.
- Collaborate openly across disciplines (design, engineering, data, policy) as true problem-solving partners.
- Facilitate workshops and meetings that lead to clear decisions and shared understanding.
- Drive progress by taking ownership and ensuring the team achieves its goals.
- Deliver with integrity by doing the right thing and having difficult conversations when needed.
Requirements
- Eligibility for Security Check (SC) clearance is required.
- Must have the right to work in the UK.
- Typically have resided in the UK for at least 5 years.
- Experience working in environments aligned to SFIA and DDaT frameworks is desirable, but not essential.
Skills
- Leading high-performing teams
- Solving problems to drive outcomes
- Bringing clarity and alignment through storytelling
- Leading with curiosity and empathy
- Asking the right questions to get to the heart of a problem
- Creating environments where diverse perspectives are heard
- Making decisions and setting direction
- Balancing user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints
- Focusing effort where it will have the greatest impact
- Bringing others along through decisions
- Proven product practitioner with a strong grasp on fundamentals and their application
- User-centred approach
- Strategically minded
- Storytelling to make the complex simple and craft compelling narratives
- Emotionally intelligent
- Adaptable and thriving in ambiguity
- Accountable and holding self and others to account
- A multiplier who drives teams forward and makes those around them better
Location
- UK
- Ireland
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
Benefits
- Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme
- Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching
- Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes
- Dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
- Flexible/remote working
- Pension
- Private Healthcare Cover
- Life Assurance
- Financial advice
- Employee Discount scheme
- Gym Discounts
- Bike to Work
- Fitness classes
- Mindfulness Workshops
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous holiday allowance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Marriage/civil partnership leave
- Special leave policies
- Educational assistance
- Incentivised certifications and accreditations (AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat)
- Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards
- ‘Call-Out’ platform
- Environment, Social and Community First initiatives
- Opportunities to get involved in local fundraising and development
About the Company
- Version 1 has 30 years of experience delivering technology and transformation solutions.
- Trusted by global brands to drive customer success.
- Deep expertise in navigating the rapidly evolving technology landscape.
- Strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake.
- Award-winning employer.
- UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner.
- 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business.
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK.
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW.
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW.
- A core values driven company that hires and rewards based on shared values.
- The Product community sits within the Transformation Design Group (TDG), in the Digital, Data & Cloud capability.
- TDG specialises in tackling complex, systemic challenges through research, evidence and data-driven insight.
- Operates with no ego and high trust, experimenting, learning quickly, and sharing openly.
- Offers a people-first culture prioritizing wellbeing and sustainable ways of working.
- Provides a growing product community with active mentoring and shared learning.
- Offers flexibility and autonomy to do great work.
- Genuine investment in employee growth through funded learning and industry events.
Equal Opportunity
- Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.
- Committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive.
- Welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences.
- Values the different perspectives people bring, including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.
- Aims for every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience.
- Requests for reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process should be directed to [email protected] and will be considered carefully, respectfully and confidentially.
