Platform Product Owner

Role: Senior Platform Product Manager

Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid – 2 Days a Month On-Site)

Salary: £47,000 – £56,500

Network IT are working with a highly respected organisation to recruit a Senior Platform Product Manager to join their Digital Services function. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the development and optimisation of internal platform products, shaping services that enable teams and stakeholders across the organisation.

You will play a key role in delivering data-driven, internally focused platform capabilities, working across the full product lifecycle and operating within a modern, collaborative product environment.

Role Overview

As a Senior Platform Product Manager, you will take ownership of complex internal platform products, ensuring they deliver value across multiple teams and stakeholders.

This role is suited to an established Senior Product Manager (not someone stepping up from PM) with strong experience delivering internal data and infrastructure platforms, rather than external or B2B products.

You will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to drive product adoption, business change, and ongoing support, acting as the bridge between technical teams and business needs.

Operating within cross-functional “build, run, own” teams, you will combine strong product leadership with solid technical awareness (APIs, cloud platforms, security), enabling you to engage meaningfully with engineering teams while maintaining a clear focus on value, delivery, and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of internal platform products, from discovery through to delivery and continuous improvement
  
  
• Define and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligned to internal user needs
  
  
• Drive product adoption across the organisation, working closely with stakeholders and leading business change activities
  
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional “build, run, own” teams, ensuring products are successfully delivered and supported
  
  
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog, leveraging data and insight to inform decisions
  
  
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, utilising modern tools including AI assistance where appropriate
  
  
• Engage extensively with stakeholders, building strong relationships and ensuring ongoing alignment and confidence
  
  
• Support operational ownership of products, including incident handling, change management, and continuous improvement
  
  
• Ensure products deliver measurable business value and internal user outcomes
  
  
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, ownership, and product excellence
  
  

Essential Skills & Experience

• Currently operating as a Senior Product Manager (not stepping up from a more junior role)
  
  
• Strong experience delivering internal products, particularly data platforms, infrastructure, or shared services
  
  
• Proven track record of driving product adoption and business change, with a strong stakeholder focus
  
  
• Experience working within cross-functional “build, run, own” teams (not purely development-led environments)
  
  
• Strong technical understanding of: 
  
  
  • APIs and integrations
    
    
  • Cloud platforms (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)
    
    
  • Security and non-functional requirements
    
    
• Ability to write and refine user stories, including use of AI-assisted tools
  
  
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, having spent significant time working directly with business users
  
  
• Strong communication and influencing skills, able to operate confidently across technical and non-technical audiences
  
  
• Experience using data and insight to drive product decisions and prioritisation
  
  
• Comfortable working in Agile environments with a flexible, delivery-focused approach