Technical Product Manager
Technical Product Manager
Companies House
Details
Reference number
(phone number removed)
Salary
?42,923 - ?47,044
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Higher Executive Officer
Band D(IT)
Contract type
Permanent
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time
Number of jobs available
2
Location
Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ
About the job
Job summary
Are you looking to play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional infrastructure to support Companies House services? Come and join our Product Management team!
Companies House Product Managers are passionate about digital innovation and meeting user needs, and we're seeking someone who shares these values to join our team and enhance our digital services.
We're looking for Technical Product Managers who have proven experience in agile product delivery, leadership, communication, organisational skills, and with a technical background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.
Job description
Key deliverables of the Technical Product Manager role:
* You'll be responsible for delivering the product vision, scope and roadmap for our infrastructure and common components services, focusing on engineering, technical requirements, and design elements.
* You will lead on the need for technical service maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring stakeholders understand and support the prioritisation of these activities.
* You'll support key stakeholders in planning and developing our infrastructure and common components services keeping them informed throughout delivery.
* Your focus will be on meeting user and business needs, working with the Senior Technical Product Manager to achieve team delivery goals.
* You'll work with Delivery Managers to ensure requirements are clearly understood and release plans align with expectations.
* You'll also collaborate across the Product Management team to achieve our delivery and service goals that enable our users to meet their outcomes.
* You'll be ahead of technical trends in the industry, advising on potential future technologies, and serve as a bridge between engineering and non-technical stakeholders in an agile environment.
* You'll identify, evaluate, and report technical risks and dependencies during delivery, and work with developers, testers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, release, support, and operations teams to design products efficiently and effectively.
* You will collaborate with other departments to ensure alignment and integration of our digital services across the organisation. This teamwork is crucial for delivering solutions that meet user and business needs.
Responsibilities of the Technical Product Manager include:
* Know your user and represent them at all stages in the product delivery lifecycle.
* Refine, manage and prioritise the backlog and understand key deliverables and manage scope and releases effectively.
* Work with developers, testers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, release, support and operations to effectively design products.
* Define success criteria for testing and product acceptance.
* Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
* Create and maintain product documentation.
* Communicate the product vision and manage stakeholders effectively and align Engineering and product teams behind common goals, serving as a bridge between engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
* Own and update the roadmap for our infrastructure and common services and for the modernisation of our services, and execute a product vision by focusing on the engineering/technical needs and design aspects of our products and services.
* Educate and advocate for technical service maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, securing stakeholder buy in for the importance of prioritising these activities - Work with our delivery managers on dependency mapping, assessing technical risks and dependencies across delivery.
* Deliver products using agile methodologies and principles.
* Support our technical experts, Service Managers, Senior Responsible Owners and Workstream Leads in strategically planning and developing our infrastructure and our common/shared services.
* Support our Service colleagues in attending and presenting at Service Standard Assessments for our digital services where appropriate.
* Research and follow technical trends in the industry and advise on potential future technologies.
* Support the product management community to deepen and broaden their technical knowledge and skills.
Person specification
We are looking for the following experience and skills which will be assessed at sift and interview.
Experience
We are looking for applicants who have:
* Strong technical knowledge, someone with a background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical field.
* Experience of working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.
* Experience delivering and maintaining technically complex products or services.
* Strong experience communicating complex technical concepts to stakeholders to secure buy-in.
* Familiar with different development practices and experienced in discussing and recommending options.
* Proven experience in prioritisation, scope management and stakeholder management.
* Successful track record of delivering digital services to users and experience of fast-paced, complex, technical deliveries.
* Delivering products or services using agile methodologies.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Managing a Quality Service
* Communicating and Influencing
* Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Technical product management - managing and leading a product through a technical delivery
Benefits
Alongside your salary of ?42,923, Companies House contributes ?12,434 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Selection process details
Please note, we are working with AMS for this recruitment process.
To apply for this role, this application link will take you to the AMS portal where you will be asked to submit your CV: amspsr.avature.net/careersmarketplace/JobDetail/7031
If you have any questions regarding the campaign then please contact Alan Yates-Brown ([18] ).
All applications will be collected by AMS (our recruitment partners), which will then be sent to Companies House for internal sift.
In your application form we'd like you to:
* Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements.
* Write a personal statement of 1000 words where you demonstrate how you meet the skills required for this role, providing examples to evidence your level of skill.
What will the process look like?
Sift
* Once the advert has closed we will sift applications - this involves reading through them all, please bear with us as this can take some time.
* We may raise the score required if we receive a high number of applications.
* At sift candidates will be assessed against experience listed in the advert and alongside your work history the panel
will score your personal statement against the following criteria:
* Strong technical knowledge, someone with a background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical field.
* Experience of working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.
* Experience delivering and maintaining technically complex products or services.
* Strong experience communicating complex technical concepts to stakeholders to secure buy-in.
Interview
* Successful candidates from the sift stage will be invited to attend a virtual interview, which will be conducted using Microsoft Teams.
* We use a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you.
* We use the Success Profile framework and at interview we will use Success Profiles assessing the Behaviours, Technical Skills and Experience listed in the advert, and Strengths.
* There will be a discussion topic as part of the interview process. This will be assessing Technical Skill: Technical product management - managing and leading a product through a technical delivery. Details of this will be sent in your interview confirmation email.
* The lead criteria to distinguish between tied candidates will be Technical Skill: Technical product management - managing and leading a product through a technical delivery.
* A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.
Key dates (dates are indicative only and could be subject to change)
* Closing date - Sunday 25 January 2026 (at 23:55)
* Sifting - w/c 26 January 2026
* Interviews - w/c 9 February 2026