Lead Product Manager

CIO Group

Salary: £58,589 - £65,100 per annum.
Band: UKRI Band F.
Contract Type: Open ended.
Hours: Full-time (minimum 0.8 FTE) (flexible working available)
Location: Swindon - Hybrid working available.

Closing Date

Thursday 5th March 2026

About the role

You will lead the product management discipline for UKRI, promoting its value to UKRI stakeholders and ensuring that we build the right things in the right way to create value for the business and our users. Balancing user needs, organisational strategy and technical delivery, you will support a discipline of both CIO Group and business product managers to create and manage clear roadmaps for both new and live UKRI digital services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive the strategic roadmap for UKRI Funding Platforms.
• Provide product leadership in Funding Platform projects and services across the UKRI digital community, working closely with the Head of Product and Design.
• Work closely with user design teams to investigate problems and design solutions.
• Organise and lead design sprints and inception activities to understand value versus feasibility.
• Run the UKRI product management community of practice.
• Oversee a range of service delivery activities relevant to the Funding Platforms portfolio.
• Mentor product managers at all levels including business service owners and contractors.

Personal Specification

The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I).

Essential

• Expert practitioner in product management with relevant qualifications. (S)
• Experience of delivering digital services to the GDS standard. (S&I)
• Evidence of the ability to manage, influence, challenge and coach team members. (S&I)
• Proven substantial experience of working with user centred design teams to solve business problems. (S&I)
• Evidence of delivering outcomes with defined benefits representing value for money. (I)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. (I)

Benefits

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

A list of benefits below:

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme.
• 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent).
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities.
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice.
• Flexible working options.

Plus, many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

For further information on our benefits please see: Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Please apply online, if you experience any issue applying, please contact

Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to the Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information, please visit or contact .