Product Manager

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

Join us as a Product Manager and help shape the platforms, services and data capabilities that power vital public services.

Our DWP Digital teams use fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience prioritising technical backlogs based on user needs, value and effort.
• A compelling track record of working with multidisciplinary teams and applying agile, user centred product practices to deliver value early in complex technical environments.
• Experience of creating a compelling vision and roadmap that encompasses user needs and realises value early
• Experience creating, influencing and securing stakeholder commitment for enterprise scale digital or platform services, supported by solid technical understanding.

You and your role

At DWP Digital, Product Managers are part of a thriving community, empowered to set the vision, drive strategy, and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

The role requires a blend of product craft and technical fluency to deliver secure, resilient, scalable and user centred digital services.

We're looking for four experienced Product Managers to work with our teams in the following areas:

Health & Disability: Lead the evolution of our AWS and Azure platform capabilities, reducing cognitive load for engineers and accelerating the delivery of high quality citizen facing services.

Engineering: Drive the developer experience by shaping our internal developer portal and CI/CD pipeline, removing friction and enabling secure, modern software delivery at scale.

Identity & Trust Services: Own the Access Management product, delivering secure, unified authentication and authorisation that protects sensitive citizen data across all DWP services.

Data & Analytics: Enable safe, governed and value driven use of data by ensuring secure storage, controlled access and high quality insights across one of government's largest data landscapes.

Whatever team you're a part of you'll shape product direction, influence decisions at every level, and lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver secure, scalable and high impact services that make a real difference to colleagues and UK citizens.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home (40%) and some time collaborating face to face in a hub (60%).

Pay: We offer competitive pay for this role of up to £68,205

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £16,786 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.


We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture:

• DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards
• Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024
• Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025
• Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards

Process:

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just three stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs.
2. Interview: A single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application