Product Manager

This role is focussed in the Student Value Stream specifically for InPlace. This critical role is to establishing a dedicated Agile delivery capability for InPlace, King's enterprise placement management platform. The current implementation is constrained by limited ongoing investment, resulting in a significant backlog of over 40 requests, operational inefficiencies, and underutilisation of the system's enterprise value. A Product Manager will provide strategic product leadership, ensuring prioritisation aligns to institutional outcomes, including improved student experience, operational efficiency, and system scalability. This role is essential to stabilise and optimise the platform, enable delivery of integrations and enhancements, and support expansion to additional faculties and programmes. The role directly contributes to Strategy 2030 objectives by enabling consistent, high-quality placement experiences, improving employability outcomes, and supporting Student Services Transformation. Without clear product ownership, delivery risks becoming fragmented, limiting value realisation and return on investment from an existing enterprise system. The Product Manager ensures a coordinated, value-driven roadmap that maximises benefits, reduces operational burden, and enables sustainable growth. This is Full Time at 35 hours per week based in Lavington Street with flexible working to suit the team. You will be offered a fixed term contract until 31st July 2027, internal applicants would be seconded to this post., At King's, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university. The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension. We welcome your thoughts on how organisations can create an inclusive environment, including one which supports free speech and the exchange of a wide range of ideas. We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination. When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King's guidance. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, and we recognise its growing role in professional work. Applicants may use AI tools to support preparation of their application, for example to research the role or structure written responses. However, applications must reflect the applicant's own work and experience. AI tools should not be used during interviews or assessment activities unless this has been agreed in advance as a reasonable adjustment. Further guidance on the use of AI in recruitment can be found We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application. To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our pages.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: Essential criteria

• SAFe Agile Product Manager (APM) Certified
• Strong experience in Product Management within Agile / SAFe environments
• Product Management leadership, working with and supporting other PMs to ensure alignment with shared outcomes, strategy and customer value
• Ability to translate strategy into measurable outcomes
• Proven ability to define roadmaps and prioritise backlogs at scale
• Experience with PI Planning and Agile delivery frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and relationship building
Desirable criteria
• Experience in higher education / complex public sector organisations
• Familiarity with Student Services and range of Products in Student value stream
• Knowledge of data-driven product decision making
• Exposure to AI-enabled product capabilities
  
  The Product Chapter is a vertical team of Product Managers and Product Owners delivering value right across all horizontal value streams at King's.
Nested within IT Digital Solutions we work closely with Product roles across King's for digital products as well as our partners in the Agile Centre of Excellence, Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Delivery and Build. Together as a chapter we mature our service and develop Product Management and a product mindset at King's.

Grade and Salary : £65,091 - £74,613 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Allowance Job ID : 155705