Senior Product Manager; Private Rented Database - Ministry of Housing, Communities

Location:

Bristol, Darlington, Manchester, Wolverhampton

Job summary

The Private Rented Sector team in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is recruiting a Senior Product Manager to lead the delivery of the Private Rented Sector Database, a key measure introduced through the Renter's Rights Act. This set of reforms is crucial to improving the private rented sector, as the lowest quality, least secure and least affordable of all tenures.

The database aims to drive housing standards in the sector by supporting landlords to understand their legal duties, providing essential information to local councils for enforcement purposes, and helping tenants make informed choices about which properties they let.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead product teams to design, build and deliver digital products and features that form the Private Rented Sector Database. This includes services to register landlords and letting agents, for tenants to view information about landlords, for local authorities to access the database, and administration interfaces. You will be working closely with policy, operations and other digital services to set the direction by balancing the objectives of Government and legislation with the needs of millions of landlords and tenants, thousands of letting agents, and hundreds of local authorities, among other user groups.

The service will launch later this year, so you need to be confident delivery  role reports to the Service Owner.

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll:

• Lead product teams to design, build and deliver digital products and features that form the Private Rented Sector database
• Shape and align to the product strategy and vision, balancing the objectives of Government with the needs of users – landlords, tenants, local authorities, and others
• Prioritise the roadmap to enable the successful delivery of a minimum viable product and subsequently prioritise product development, iteration and improvement; you’ll be working on a product that moves from private beta into public beta
• Work with other product managers to plan work across multiple delivery streams
• Seek opportunities for reuse and solve the whole problem in the private rented sector space
• Understand and influence an array of stakeholders with different needs and wants to shape the service and control communications

As a Senior Product Manager, You’ll Have

• Experience of prioritising product features to ensure we are building the right things at the right time (the roadmap) to enable successful delivery; as part of this you’ll be comfortable having challenging conversations where trade-offs are needed and how to use data to drive decision making
• Product managed services from private betas, into public betas, and the associated skills and knowledge needed of leading a live service with a large user base
• Proven experience of bringing together a range of stakeholders to shape product development, the strategy and vision, including how we can solve a whole problem and opportunities for re-use
• Used user-centred design to build great services in accordance with the GDS Service Standard and Service Manual
• Fostered a positive team culture and motivated a multi-disciplinary team to deliver to ambitious timelines