Senior Product Manager

Job Introduction

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to help us make a difference to our planet. 

As our Senior Product Manager, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. 

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 30 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone. 

World changing work 

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are. 

•    We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact

•    We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better

•    We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making

•    We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater

•    We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers 

Your world of expertise 

As a Senior Product Manager joining our Product Delivery Team, you will have responsibility for Post Processing and Analysis (PP&A) products and developments. These products and developments are a critical part of the Met Office data pipeline, delivering essential weather forecast data to a range of end users including Operational Meteorologists, key customers and end users including Defence and Data Provisioning customers. 

The products and services enable our users to consume and interrogate supercomputer data in a way which meets their needs and enables them to exploit ever growing datasets to ultimately help them make better decisions so that citizens stay safe and thrive. Our Senior Product Manager role is within the Government Digital and Data (GDaD) profession, adopted by the Met Office as guidance to ways of working to ensure our public digital services meet government standards.

Your key duties:

•    Manage and lifecycle Met Office data products, such as PP&A products, maximising the value to internal data supply consumers and external customers and users by enabling coordinated developments via projects and programmes.

•    Oversee prioritisation of data product developments and roadmaps across multiple development and science teams, ensuring that there is optimum coordination and planning in place to generate effective working practices and efficiencies.  

•    Work across directorates with markets, services and technology teams to ensure the data products and services deliver to customer and user needs and facilitate effective pull through of supercomputing benefits.

•    Understand and manage internal dependencies on other data supply teams, such as Service Hub, alongside Data Management, and Data Products teams

•    Lead and line manage a team of product managers working on data product requirements

•    Work collaboratively in a team of Senior Product Managers, especially within Data Supply and Data Products 

Why join us 

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023 and 2024 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

As our Senior Product Manager, your total reward package will be up to £73,518 annually, which includes: 

•    £52,799 base pay.

•    An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.

•    Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave.

Essential Criteria, skills and experience: 

1.    You keep evolving with experience leading and delivering within Agile product and development teams, and practical experience of product development and life-cycle management processes.

2.    Proven ability to think strategically and beyond the boundaries of immediate responsibilities.

3.    You work better together using collaborative leadership skills to successfully motivate and manage multi-faceted teams to deliver on challenging priorities.

4.    You live and breathe it by combining your user/customer focus, building trusted relationships and using that to improve products or services, whilst recognising changing needs over time.

5.    Excellent communication skills with an ability to command an audience, effectively influence and negotiate with senior management.

6.    An expert by nature with demonstrable knowledge of environmental data products and datasets, post processing and production systems and how they provide business value to different Products and Services teams.

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills. 

Closing date 26/05/2025 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 09/06/2025. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed. 

How we can help 

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role. 

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code. 

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.