Hybrid - occasional travel to office & quarterly product off-sites

We're Civica, and we create software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world.

From local government, to education, health, and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to provide essential services to over 100 million citizens.

Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work, supporting the needs of citizens and those who serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point in our journey to realise that aspiration.

Why you will love this opportunity as Technical Product Manager at Civica

As a Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for equipping your team with detailed technical requirements through a product backlog to build high quality products, delivering to our product roadmaps that align to Civica's strategic goals.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will take complex business problems and break them into simple, elegant and highly effective user stories, ensuring the end product aligns with the company's mission and vision of becoming a global GovTech champion.

We are looking for an expert in creating clear and precise customer and outcome focused requirements, someone who leads by example and has hands on execution of the product delivery through product backlogs, ensuring that product development practices and backlog aligns to our roadmaps and our global vision.

What you will do to be successful in this role as Technical Product Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure that technical solutions meet product requirements whilst providing technical guidance and oversight to ensure that solutions are technically feasible, scalable, maintainable, and meet quality standards
• Guide the engineering process by managing product backlogs, creating and refining product requirements into user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Participating in team ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to ensure the engineering team has a clear understanding of product priorities
• Triaging and resolving product-related issues, working with the engineering team to address bugs, and communicating with stakeholders to manage expectations
• Identify upcoming risks and proactively implement strategies to mitigate them, ensuring successful product delivery
• Together with the Product Manager, make trade-off decisions when faced with conflicting priorities, resource constraints, or technical limitations
• Work closely with various stakeholders, including engineering, design, marketing, commercial, and customer success teams to ensure successful product development
• Analysing data and metrics to inform product decisions, measure product performance, and identify areas for improvement
• Support a strong culture of knowledge sharing and product decision and design documentation

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Product Manager, working in a modern software or product organisation
• Proven ability to create and manage backlogs, writing clear user stories with concise and detailed acceptance criteria
• Capable of prioritising features, requirements, and tasks based on customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility
• Competency to participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions
• Continuously seeking to understand customer needs, pain points, and motivations to develop products that meet customer requirements and deliver value
• Strong analytical skills to collect, analyse, and interpret data to inform product decisions
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success
• Flexible to adapt to changing market conditions, customer needs, and business priorities
• Strong problem-solving skills to overcome technical, business, and customer challenges
• Operates with Agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, to manage product development and collaborate with engineering teams
• Understanding of programming concepts, including data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns
• Knowledge of technical architecture, including system design, scalability, and performance optimisation

We Want You to Bring Your Whole Self to Work

There is no such thing as the perfect candidate, so if you think you have what it takes but don't necessarily meet every single point on the list above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

Why You'll Love Working with Us

As a company, we're passionate about what we do and the citizens we serve. If you, too, want to champion the use of technology in public services to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organizations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve career growth, and make a real difference to people and communities.

Benefits

• Days of Difference - Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering.
• Financial Well-being & Security: Pension Contributions - 5% employer match to support your future.
• Income Protection - Up to 75% salary cover for long-term illness.
• Life Assurance - 4x salary tax-free lump sum.
• Critical Illness Cover - £25,000 lump sum (extendable to dependents).
• Health & Perks: Private Medical Insurance - Fast access to private healthcare.
• Health Cash Plan - Claim back physio, therapies & more.
• Dental Insurance - Cover for routine & emergency care.
• Affinity Groups - Join employee-led communities.
• Bounty Bonus - Refer a friend & get rewarded.