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Opencast
Product Manager - Consultant (Fixed Term Contract)
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Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
You’ll work with technical teams and stakeholders to develop solutions that deliver our clients’ strategic goals. You’ll work in agile teams alongside people in a range of roles spanning design, development, and research.
You’ll help deliver the vision, helping to decide the features that each product needs and manage backlogs to meet our client preferences. You’ll deliver discovery and ideation workshops across diverse groups of stakeholders.
This role is offered on a 12 month fixed-term contract basis.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you will need to show a depth of experience working as a product manager, on complex projects across the product life cycle. You will need a good knowledge of software development and be familiar with agile processes and user-centred design.
In your CV and the interview, you should show how you have:
developed and gained buy-in for product visions and minimum viable products
used service design tools to map and articulate the wider ecosystems around products
translated product roadmaps into backlogs to prioritise delivery
balanced the needs of senior stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes
excellent communication and relationship management skills
contributed to constructive and trusting team environments
As well as product management skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.
In your interview, please show how you have:
taken a methodical and considered approach to solving complex problems
planned your own tasks, to achieve the objectives of your project
positively challenged decisions or solutions you don’t agree with
Desirable experience
There are some areas of experience which are not essential, but they are relevant to this role. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas when you join us.
If you have any of the following relevant experience, please show it on your CV and talk about it in the interview:
The Service Standard (UK Government)
use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools
attending wider product community events and workshops
demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or agile delivery management
In the interview we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Salary
Consultant salary range: £48,000 - £59,000
What our offer includes
A competitive pension, health cash plan and discretionary bonus
Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday
People to support you every step of the way
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel across the UK is part of life at Opencast. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
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Opencast
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Culture overview
We want to provide our people with interesting work for organisations that matter to them – we give our people the best chance to grow with us.
Our people are honest, hardworking, open and confident – we are smart self-starters. We strive to protect our family culture and we’re not big on hierarchy.
Our internal working groups ensure progressive change to our processes and practices, covering:
• Charity
• Environmental action
• Health and wellbeing
• Inclusive change
• Social committee
• Tech sector engagement
We offer an extensive social and wellbeing calendar providing something for everyone who wants to get involved in Opencast life.
We value and empower our people, doing right by them. We work flexibly and keep hierarchy to a minimum. Our benefits include generous annual leave, training and development, pension, and other financial perks.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
Share Options
Office vibe
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
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Leadership
David Sarginson
Head of Software Development
Tech overview
Software, digital, & technical delivery
Our software, digital and technical delivery teams work across the development lifecycle, with experienced scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, testers, front-end and back-end software developers. We work with customers to deliver agile transformation and improve ways of working. We have delivered multiple complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, from discovery through to live.
Architecture
Our growing digital architecture practice combines expertise in enterprise, solution and technical architecture. Our architects work collaboratively to create solutions in the context of our clients’ existing technology estates. We advise on the components required to deliver a new service successfully in line with business goals.
DevOps, cloud & platform engineering
Our DevOps, cloud and platform engineering practice brings together leading engineers who are true experts, driving the adoption of a DevOps culture and the benefits of cloud computing. We focus on delivering cost savings, reducing time to market, improving scalability and flexibility, as well as enhancing the quality and security of our delivery.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Configuration management
Continuous integration
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
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