GCHQ
Product Manager
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The role
As a Product Manager, you’ll be the day-to-day owner of multiple technology and infrastructure products that underpin critical organisational services. Working with customers, stakeholders and delivery teams, you’ll guide products through their full lifecycle, from early planning and development through to implementation, improvement and eventual retirement.
Working closely with people across the organisation, you’ll build relationships, understand different perspectives and work towards shared goals. Sometimes that might mean helping customers understand why one piece of work needs to take priority over another. It could also involve negotiating dependencies between teams or using data and evidence to support difficult decisions. Whatever the situation, you’ll help ensure resources are focused where they can deliver the greatest value.
Product performance data will form an important part of your decision-making, alongside maintaining roadmaps, refining backlogs and contributing to planning cycles. Whether you’re speaking to customers about their priorities or coordinating work across multiple teams, you’ll help ensure critical products continue to meet user needs and evolve over time.
This role sits within an established and expanding Product Management function, where new ideas and different perspectives are welcomed. As part of a growing community of Product Managers, you’ll be encouraged to share ideas, challenge assumptions and contribute to the ongoing evolution of product practices and ways of working.
About you
Experience working in a Product Management role, or a related position that has provided significant product management expertise, is essential. You could be an established Product Manager or Product Owner, or perhaps a Business Analyst or Project Manager with experience working in a product environment. A technology or infrastructure background may be beneficial, but what matters most is experience of shaping priorities, influencing product direction and delivering outcomes.
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A solid understanding of core product management principles, including roadmaps, backlogs and product lifecycles is essential, along with the ability to work confidently in Agile and Lean environments. Just as importantly, you’ll know how to use data, user insight and evidence to make informed decisions and prioritise effectively.
Strong relationship-building skills will help you work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. You’ll be comfortable balancing competing priorities and having constructive conversations where expectations, resources and timescales aren’t aligned. You’ll also bring curiosity and a desire to improve the way things are done, alongside an openness to new approaches that could lead to better outcomes.
Salary
£55,758 in Cheltenham or £62,008 in London (we are recruiting across both locations).
Flexible working
We support a range of flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, compressed hours, job share, and flexible start and finish times. Home working is available subject to business need. To find out more about our flexible working options, please visit the work-life balance page of our website.
Training and development
From day one, you’ll receive a structured induction to help you get to know the products, teams, stakeholders and ways of working relevant to your role. An assigned buddy will help you settle in, make connections and ensure you understand our processes.
You'll join an established product management community with plenty of opportunities to learn from experienced colleagues, share ideas and build your professional network. Through regular community events, Product Managers from across the organisation come together to share experiences, discuss challenges and explore different approaches.
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As your career develops, you'll have access to product management development pathways, Agile and Lean training, professional certifications and wider leadership development opportunities.
Whether you're looking to deepen your product management expertise, broaden your skills or prepare for your next role, we’ll encourage you to pursue learning opportunities that align with your goals and interests.
Rewards and benefits
You’ll receive a starting salary of £55,758 (Cheltenham) or £62,008 (London), plus a range of benefits, including:
- 25 days’ annual leave rising automatically to 30 days after five years' service, plus an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays
- opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- an interest-free season ticket loan
- an excellent pension scheme
- a cycle to work scheme
- facilities such as a subsidised gym, restaurant and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
- paid parental and adoption leave
Equal opportunities
At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word, encompassing different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and people with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, particularly those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce including women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Find out more about our culture, working environment and approach to diversity and inclusion on our website.
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