CIO Group Salary: £58,589 - £65,100 per annum. Band: UKRI Band F. Contract Type: Open ended. Hours: Full-time. (minimum 0.8 FTE) (flexible working available) Location: Swindon - Hybrid working available. Closing Date: Sunday 8th March 2026 About the role You will lead the product management discipline for UKRI,promoting its value to UKRI stakeholders and ensuring that we build the right things in the right way to create value for the business and our users.Balancing user needs, organisational strategy and technical delivery,you will support a discipline of both CIO Group and business product managers to create and manage clear roadmaps for both new and live UKRI digital services. As the lead product manager you willreport to the UKRI Head of Product and Design within the Digital and Funding Platforms group.You will support and overseea portfolio of services across UKRIDigital andFunding platforms, working closely with the Head of Funding Platforms and their teams toidentify, implement and improve strategies and tactics for their products.You will promote best practice and work closely with both Funding policy and business change teams tounderstand organisational constraints, business value and how to balance conflicting priorities. Your responsibilities: Lead and drivethestrategicroadmapfor UKRI Funding Platforms. Provide product leadership inFunding Platform projects and services across theUKRI digitalcommunity, working closely with theHead ofProductandDesign. Work closely with user design teams to investigate problems and design solutions. Organise and lead design sprints and inception activities to understand value versus feasibility. Run the UKRI product management community of practice. Oversee a range of service delivery activities relevant to the Funding Platforms portfolio. Mentor product managers at all levels including business service owners and contractors. Personal Specification The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I). Essential Expert practitioner in product management with relevantqualifications. (S) Experience of delivering digital services to the GDS standard. (S&I) Evidence of the abilitytomanage,influence,challengeand coach team members. (S&I) Provensubstantialexperience of working with user centred design teamsto solve business problems. (S&I) Evidence of delivering outcomes with defined benefitsrepresentingvalue for money. (I) Excellent communication and presentation skills. (I) Benefits We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning! A list of benefits below: An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme. 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent). Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities. Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice. Flexible working options. Plus, many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance! For further information on our benefits please see: Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Please apply online, if you experience any issue applying, please contact Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information, please visithttps://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/how-much-it-costsor contact.