Product Manager

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital‑First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hub, Out Systems, and Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award‑winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do. We’re proud to be UK & Ireland’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner, a €350/£300m revenue business with over 3,300 employees, and a company recognised as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK for 10 + years. We have also been named the Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland and for Wellbeing in the UK by Great Place to Work.

• 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

As a Product Manager you will be skilled in framing problems, setting priorities for your delivery team and ensuring quality products are delivered for customers. Working closely with your Scrum Master, development team, user researchers, service designers and technical leads, you will define and prioritise a product backlog and ensure delivery of successful outcomes. You will participate in daily scrums, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives, ensuring the next sprint is ready to commence and inspecting the product’s progress at the end of every sprint.

You will work with stakeholders to understand user needs and translate the product roadmap into manageable product backlog items for your Scrum team. You will have complete authority to accept or reject work done, ensuring delivered software meets capabilities as envisioned.

Agile working. You have strong experience working in Agile environments with expert knowledge of Agile methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe. You can coach your team through the lifecycle stages of sprints and releases. You can think of new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes, helping the team to overcome barriers and achieve better results for the user and the organisation.

Product ownership. You are able to manage an end‑to‑end product backlog, prioritising features and getting buy‑in from the team to ensure successful delivery. You work closely with user researchers to understand user needs, ensuring the product is designed for the people who use it. You can translate a product roadmap into manageable backlog items and can promote best practice within your agile team, including implementing solutions for assisted digital users.

Stakeholder and problem management. You can identify important stakeholders, tailoring communication to their needs, and work with your team to build these relationships across the product’s lifecycle. You have good communication skills, acting as a bridge between development teams and stakeholders, representing business challenges and requirements clearly to engineers and relevant points of technical designs and constraints to business users. You can articulate problems and help others to understand their impact.

You can use evidence to build consensus to deliver the best outcome.

Requirements and feature definition. You can connect with stakeholders across multiple locations to create and fully form product features. You can distil inputs from a variety of users and stakeholders to create a complete picture of the market problems to be solved. You can define software capabilities to meet understood requirements including usability, utilising artefacts that provide engineering with sufficient guidance to ensure progress.

You can challenge stakeholders to ensure that an understanding is achieved that is coherent, complete, credible, and sufficiently concrete to facilitate the development of…