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Digital Product Manager

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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
Senior level
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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
Senior level
Lead product strategy and delivery across major products or portfolios within a regulatory environment. Translate user and business needs into roadmaps, manage backlogs, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communications, promote agile delivery, and oversee products through discovery to live operation and continuous improvement.
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Job Title: Digital Product Manager

Division: Data Technology and Innovation

Department: Digital Delivery Hub

  • Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £74,900 to £105,000 and London from £82,300 to £115,000 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

  • This role is graded as: Technical Specialist - Regulatory

  • Your external recruitment contact is Benjamin via [email protected].

  • Your internal recruitment contact is Lauren via [email protected]

  • Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

About the FCA and team 

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. 

The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency.

Sitting within DTI, the Digital Delivery Hub digitally transforms the FCA's regulatory services to efficiently meet the needs of all stakeholders

You will also play an integral part in developing Product Management practices in Digital Delivery Hub and beyond, shaping the culture, ways of working and effectiveness of the digital delivery teams that are being recruited to form this exciting new capability for the FCA.

Role responsibilities

  • Partner with business stakeholders to ensure user and organisational needs are researched, analysed and translated into product roadmaps, backlogs and delivery priorities

  • Manage the delivery of product strategy across a major product or portfolio of products, working closely with multidisciplinary delivery teams

  • Ensure prioritised business and user requirements are reflected in delivery plans, supporting the implementation of technical change and operational improvements

  • Oversee the commissioning and delivery of products and services that support strategic objectives across complex regulatory and business environments

  • Ensure alignment of product delivery with organisational blueprints, service standards, and broader transformation goals

  • Manage product budgets, ensuring effective allocation of resources and transparent financial oversight across programmes and projects

  • Coordinate the recharging of completed work to sponsoring business areas and project teams, maintaining accurate financial governance

  • Monitor and manage product risks, issues and technical debt, leading mitigation activities and supporting timely resolution of delivery challenges

Skills required 

Minimum:

  • Proven experience working in a Product led role either as Product Manager or Product Owner  

  • Proven experience of acting as a product owner to one or a number of Scrums 

  • Proven experience leading a product team from problem to live service by delivering value to the organisation

Essential:

  • Applying product management principles and methodologies to translate user and business needs into prioritised deliverables, product backlogs and defined MVP outcomes

  • Managing products through the full delivery lifecycle, from discovery and development through to live operation, continuous improvement and retirement

  • Promoting agile ways of working, enabling iterative delivery, collaboration and flexibility in response to change within changing environments

  • Managing effective planning and road mapping activities, including forecasting, estimation, risk management, performance measurement and stakeholder communications

  • Identify, analyse and prioritise complex problems, determining root causes and implementing appropriate solutions and corrective actions

  • Maintaining user focus by using evidence-based insights to understand needs, shape product decisions and balance competing priorities

  • Operating effectively within technological, regulatory, financial, legal and policy constraints, ensuring compliance while challenging barriers where appropriate and delivering pragmatic outcomes

Benefits

  • 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

  • Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)

  • Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary

  • Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance

  • 35 hours of paid volunteering annually

  • A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our values & culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability Confident: our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

Useful information and timeline

  • Advert Closing: 10/08/2026

  • CV Review/Shortlist:  11/08/2026

  • First Stage Interviews W/C: 17/08/2026

  • Second Stage Interviews W/C: 24/08/26

  • Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.  

Financial Conduct Authority Edinburgh, Scotland Office

127 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH3 9QG

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