Product Manager (x2)

Are you passionate about delivering digital products that make a real difference to users?

Do you enjoy solving complex problems and helping teams focus on what matters most?

If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for a Product Manager to join our Digital & Technology Services Directorate at Companies House. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver high-quality digital services used by millions of people across the UK.

At Companies House, we foster a supportive and inclusive culture where wellbeing, flexibility and work-life balance are a priority. We believe our people do their best work when they feel valued, supported and empowered.

As a Product Manager, you’ll play a key role in driving forward our digital transformation. You’ll work with multidisciplinary teams to design, build and continuously improve services that meet the needs of users and the UK business landscape.

Watch this video to find out more about working in Digital at Companies House

Why choose Companies House?

At Companies house we take a proactive approach to wellbeing by promoting a welcoming culture, healthy work life balance and supporting colleagues to be their best in work because we know people are the key to our success.

Our benefits include:

• Flexible working with no core hours (6am - 8pm flexible options)

• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Enrolment into Civil Service Pension scheme average 28.97%

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

Give yourself the best opportunity to apply!

Join our Outreach team for an informal, drop-in 'find out more' session.

No need to register - just click on the following link to join, listen, and gain tips to help you apply:

Monday 17th August between 12:30 - 13:15

Cameras and microphones will be switched off.

Can’t make the session? Email our Outreach on: outreachinnovationteam@companieshouse.gov.uk for a copy of the slides.

Please note:

• Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.

• Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign. You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC.

• The successful candidate will be expected to attend their preferred office location, as selected in their application (Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast), on a regular basis. A hybrid working contract will be provided as the standard offering.

Job description

As a Product Manager at Companies House, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality digital services that support millions of users across the UK. Working within a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, influencing decisions along the product lifecycle, championing best practice to deliver a modern and accessible service for users and our services.

The role suits someone who enjoys working with others, is comfortable making decisions, and can work through uncertainty. You will need to be confident in explaining your thinking and helping others understand the direction of the product.

Find out more about the Product Manager profession

Key Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a clear product vision, aligning roadmaps and backlogs to strategic goals and sprint priorities

• Own and prioritise the product backlog, making risk-based decisions to unblock delivery and maintain momentum

• Ensure delivery meets user needs, accessibility, legislation, and GDS/GOV.UK standards within a regulated environment

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, which include delivery managers, designers, researchers, analysts, architects, and operational subject matter experts to deliver change and drive continuous improvement

• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, acting as the bridge between service owners, business areas and delivery teams

• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly through appropriate channels (e.g. workshops, demos, and engagement sessions)

• Use data, analytics, and user research, and insight to inform decisions, measure performance and improve outcomes

• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies, balancing user, business, and technical needs, and supporting live service optimisation

Person specification

We are looking for the following skills and experience which will be assessed throughout the recruitment process.

The successful candidate will be someone who can demonstrate:

• Influential leadership: building strong relationships; communicates and presents clearly; inspires and empowers teams; aligns stakeholders and drives collaboration across multidisciplinary teams

• Owners mindset and drive: Takes ownership; thinks long term; delivers with excellence; gets things done

• Growth mindset and continuously learning: Curious by nature with strong having a awareness of government digital standards, governance, and regulated environments

• Strategic thinking: Ability to see the big picture, making confident decisions and the ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments

• Deep customer empathy: Advocate for the user, listening and understanding the users' needs, whilst delivering meaningful solutions

• Resilience and adaptability: understanding of the product lifecycle, product vision, roadmaps and backlog management to support iterative delivery

• Data and outcome focused: Strong attention to detail; outcome focused, with the ability to balance user needs, business and technical priorities, using data and feedback to drive impact and learn

Technical Experience

• Familiarity with delivery and collaboration tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft 365)

• Awareness of Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum, and how these support iterative delivery

• Awareness of GDS standards, GOV.UK service principles, user-centred design, and accessibility standards

• Experience of working with developers, architects, and technical leads to understand constraints, dependencies, and opportunities

• Knowledge of using data, analytics, and user insight to monitor performance and inform decisions

• Awareness of tools and frameworks to support prioritisation and risk-based decision making

Qualifications

Please provide details of qualifications and/or equivalent experience demonstrating transferable skills relevant to Product Management.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions

• Communicating and Influencing

• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Understanding of Agile tools and frameworks to support with business prioritisation and risk-based decision making

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 (opens in a new window).

Join Companies House and discover a role that offers more than just a job, with flexibility, career development and a genuinely supportive culture where you can thrive:

• Flexible working from day one – hybrid working, flexible hours and flexitime

• A generous, competitive package – including 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• We invest in your future – funded training, professional qualifications and clear career progression pathways

• A modern and welcoming workplace – collaboration spaces, on-site facilities and an office you’ll enjoy

• Stand-out location benefits – including free parking in Cardiff and on-site amenities across all locations

• Wellbeing at the heart of what we do – occupational health support, mental health advocates and wellbeing initiatives

• Real savings and lifestyle perks – myLifestyle discounts, gym discounts and childcare support

• A friendly, social and inclusive culture – staff networks, sports and social groups and volunteering opportunities

• Security you can count on – Civil Service Pension Scheme with employer contributions of around 28%

Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.

Where will you be working?

You will be based at either our Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast office where you will be expected to attend on a regular basis. We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work which provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities. Your manager will agree regular patterns of attendance with you: however, you may be required to make yourself available to attend the office more frequently when required to meet business needs.

We celebrate diversity

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

We are proud to be a disability confident leader.  Our recruitment process is fully inclusive, and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at application stage, or if you'd like to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk.

Read our 'Applying under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS)' guide to find out how to successfully complete an application under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS).

Things you need to know

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 (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

What will the process look like?

Stage 1 – Sift

An initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist. This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements: Experience.

In your application form we’d like you to:

Write a CV: tell us about your employment history, including key responsibilities and achievements. Make sure you show how your experience has developed your skills and link these back to the criteria in the Person Specification.

Write a Personal Statement of 750 words: tell us, using examples, how you meet the following criteria from the Person Specification:

• Influential leadership: building strong relationships; communicates and presents clearly; inspires and empowers teams; aligns stakeholders and drives collaboration across multidisciplinary teams

• Owners mindset and drive: Takes ownership; thinks long term; delivers with excellence; gets things done

• Growth mindset and continuously learning: Curious by nature with strong having an awareness of government digital standards, governance, and regulated environments

Make sure you use the full word count, and to give us clear examples and evidence of the different elements of the essential minimum criteria.

We’re committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as your name and age) from your personal statement.

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. 

Please note: Before conducting a full sift as described above, the panel will conduct a pre-sift assessing all applications against the following Qualification criteria: details of qualifications and/or equivalent experience demonstrating transferable skills relevant to Product Management.

We may raise the score required if we receive a high number of applications.

At sift we may choose to take through the highest performing candidates to the next stage. If, after the final stage is completed and roles are unfilled, we will proceed to invite lower scoring candidates to interview.

Stage 2 - Interview

Companies House uses 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 and Technical Skills listed in the advert, and Strengths.

Successful candidates from the sift stage will be invited to a virtual interview, which will be conducted using Microsoft Teams.

As part of the interview, candidates will be asked to prepare a discussion topic. This will assess the Technical skill: Understanding of Agile tools  and frameworks to support with business prioritisation and risk-based decision making. 

Candidates who are successful at being invited to interview will be sent further details on what to expect at interview and how they can prepare.

The lead criteria to distinguish between tied candidates will be Making Effective Decisions.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.

All offers will be made in merit order.

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.

Dates (dates are indicative only and could be subject to change)

• Webinar: Monday 17th August between 12:30 - 13:15

• Closing date: 23rd August 2026

• Sifting: w/c 24th August 2026

• Interview: w/c 7th September 2026

Sponsorship

Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Companies House holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles, and this campaign does not qualify. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship, your application may be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment withdrawn.

Security Clearance

Successful candidates must pass a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before they can be appointed.

BPSS is an entry level security check. It uses the Police National Computer (PNC) to make sure a candidate has no convictions. The check returns evidence of any current criminal record and un-spent convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements for Security Check (SC) before they can be appointed.

The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.

Further information on National Security Vetting

Pre-Employment Checking

In line with Government guidance, successfully appointed candidates will need to provide documents for our Right to Work checks.

From June 2026, applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). Your personal details (name, National Insurance number, and date of birth) will be checked against the Civil Service Resourcing Extract IFD.

This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued.

If your details appear on this database, you will not be offered employment unless you can demonstrate exceptional circumstances. Companies House, acting on behalf of the vacancy holder, will inform you if your application is refused for this reason.

Please note: You are not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland

• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name :Georga Coleman

• Email :gcoleman@companieshouse.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email :recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk

Further information

We welcome applications in Welsh / Rydym yn croesawi ceisiadau yn y Gymraeg. Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission . 

info@csc.gov.uk

Civil Service Commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road SW1A 2HQ