Job Description
Associate Product Manager
Location: National*
Closing Date: 24th May 2026
Interviews: w/c 8th June 2026
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary**: London: £49,325 – £53,081
National: £42,914 – £46,182
Working pattern: Full-Time, Part-Time, Flexible Working
Contract Type: Permanent
Number of vacancies: 6
Vacancy number: 17519
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.
The Role
We’re recruiting for Associate Product Managers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Prisons and Probation teams.
This role aligns against Associate Product Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework
Come and join a multi-disciplinary team researching, designing and building a service that’s core to prison regime, enabling a prisoners’ release into the community at the right time with the right people assisting their journey or supporting the development of our critical ServiceNow platform that supports the organisation in providing a seamless and consistent support experience for our front-line colleagues.
The work is challenging, important and rewarding. It is an opportunity to work with committed and talented product, delivery, research, tech and design specialists, plus prison staff, who share a vision for making better prisons through the smarter digital services. You’ll be line managed by an experienced Product Manager to develop your product management skills and toolkit.
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
Key Responsibilities:
Associate Product Managers manage subsets of features or components of a product in either its prototype state or once it is live and incrementally improved. You will be learning basic product management techniques such as;
Being aware of Agile methodology, product management, and the ways to apply the principles in practice. Can support the immediate team understand the value and priorities.
Representing users internally, assisting the team in designing and developing user focused services by helping to plan, coordinate and conduct user. research, compiling results into user insights and product improvements
Works with the Product Manager to understand (and possibly set) the scope, direction, and continual improvement of a product or a feature within a product.
Being aware of the wider strategy of your product area. Works with more senior PMs to ensure alignment with product strategy.
Investing in developing yourself, learning the product role and having a mentor; becoming/being an expert in product ownership.
Engaging with stakeholders and communicating credibly (both internally and externally) with other PMs, the wider capability team, Subject Matter Experts and users of products etc. Is actively engaged in the Product Community.
Understanding the policies for their product area, ensuring that you meet the policy intent.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
Product Management- Awareness of tools, terms and concepts needed to deliver a product. Understands how to define the minimum viable product and make decisions about priorities. Capable of working with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
Problem Ownership - Understand and identify problems, analyse and help to identify appropriate solutions, consulting specialists where required. Determine the appropriate remedies, assist with implementation and measure effectiveness.
User Focus - Understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence. Able to use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes. Puts users first and can manage competing priorities.
Agile working - Is aware of and understands agile methodology and how to apply the agile mindset to all aspects of their work. Has the ability to work in a fast paced, evolving environment and understands how iterative method and flexible approach enables rapid delivery.
Working Within Constraints - Understand the value of technical, policy, legislative, regulatory and operational constraints, and find the best solution for users to meet intent.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
Salary Information**
Base salary for this role is from: £49,325 – £53,081 (London); or £42,914 – £46,182 (National)
New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.
Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.
The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.
How to Apply
In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience, Technical skills and Behaviours during the assessment process.
Stage 1 - Application and sift:
To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application:
A CV detailing your career history (including any relevant qualifications). Your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.
A Personal Statement (no more than 500 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following 2 criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.
Problem Ownership
Agile Working
A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on Problem Ownership will be conducted before the sift.
Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance
Stage 2 - Interviews:
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements – Experience and the following Behaviours:
Communication and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Delivering at Pace
Changing and Improving
Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the Product Management essential criteria will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk
