Job title: Product Manager | Grade: 6 | Employment type: permanent | Hours: full time (35 hours per week) | Starting salary: £49,280 | Directorate: Corporate Services & Accounts | Department: Digital Services | Location: Edinburgh | Closing date: 18 January 2026 (23:55) We’re looking for a Product Manager who can bring clarity, structure and momentum to our digital development work. You’ll lead an Agile team, shape system design, manage delivery rhythms, and keep development aligned with SLAB’s priorities. This role blends product management with elements of service ownership and business analysis, so you’ll enjoy plenty of variety, influence and opportunities to improve how our systems are built and how our users experience them. Key responsibilities include: leading Agile routines, including sprints, stand-ups and reviews prioritising product features and maintaining a clear backlog ensuring user stories, wireframes, and test packs are ready for development guiding developers to build to specifications and maintaining design consistency tracking product progress and ensuring work stays within scope advising on release readiness, go-live support and transition materials analysing business processes and identifying improvements maintaining design standards, ensuring compliance with accessibility and quality guidelines communicating risks, issues and dependencies to stakeholders driving continuous improvement and liaising with Digital Scotland and other partners. To succeed in this role, you will need: experience coaching and leading Agile teams confidence engaging stakeholders and resolving complex issues experience across multiple stages of the product lifecycle analytical skills to assess business processes and UX impacts ability to define acceptance criteria and support testing knowledge of accessibility, quality standards and legislation flexibility to manage competing priorities. For more details about this role and a full list of essential criteria and required competencies, please see the Job Description. Completed applications should be returned by Sunday, 18 January 2026.