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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, FinOps, 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 for a 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 about what Lead Product Managers do in government.