Title: AI Product Manager

Function: Justice AI Unit

Grade: Grade 6

The Role

As an AI Product Manager at the Justice AI Unit, you will be responsible for delivering winning products that create real value for users. You will work with cross-functional teams to define, develop, and launch AI-driven products that align with our strategy and customer needs. Your expertise will guide the product from 0 -> 1, ensuring it solves important problems for the justice system.

To learn more about the Justice AI Unit and our work, visit our website or follow us on LinkedIn for updates and insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Continuously assess the value and viability of your product.

• Prioritise product features based on user needs.

• Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, policy

• Create and maintain a product roadmap, outlining key priorities.

• Drive product discovery and delivery in parallel, applying excellent product thinking.

• Develop deep knowledge of customers, product data, AI capabilities, and market trends.

• Act as the acknowledged expert on your product within the organization.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in AI to incorporate them effectively and ethically into the evolving products.

Skills and Experience

• Track record of shipping AI powered products that users adopt and love.

• Obsession with solving real user problems through AI. You can translate ambiguous user feedback into concrete product improvements.

• Ability to analyse both qualitative and quantitative data to support decision making and measure success.

• Experience working effectively in cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration.

• Ability to turn product strategy into actionable results.

• You understand AI capabilities and limitations including how to work with hallucinations trade offs and system prompts.

• Expert at running the full product discovery cycle while simultaneously driving delivery. You can find out what's next without slowing down what's now.

• A track record of experimenting, building, iterating and growing successful products

Nice to haves

• Experience building with Codex, Claude Code or any other IDE, coding agents you like.

• Side hustles. If you’re entrepreneurial and hungry to build something people want then show us.

• Ruthless communication. Can you describe your favorite product in 7 words or less?

While direct experience with AI products is valuable, we're equally interested in candidates who have a proven track record of experimenting, building, iterating, and growing successful products in related software fields. If you're passionate about applying your product skills to the AI space and eager to shape the future of our technology, we encourage you to apply.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

Locations

• National

Travel to other locations across the UK will be required to meet users and feel their pain. If you aren't exposed to their problems then you can’t build a winning product.

The successful candidate will be expected to work from London as the home base of the Justice AI Unit. Candidates not currently based in London will be required to either relocate or undertake regular travel to London, with attendance expected every week, in line with business needs.

Application

Submit:

• Your CV.

• A 250-word personal statement answering the following question:

Tell us how you go about building something people want.

We're interested in how you identify user needs, prioritise opportunities and build products that deliver real value.

Interview

The recruitment process has two stages. Both stages will be held online via Microsoft Teams.

Stage one - Behaviour & Strengths interview

A panel interview lasting up to 45 minutes, assessing you against two Civil Service strengths and the following Civil Service behaviours:

• Making Effective Decisions

• Managing a Quality Service

Stage two - Technical assessment

Candidates who are successful at stage one will be invited to a 60-minute technical assessment.

The exercise will be shared 24 hours before the interview and is designed to give us a flavour of your product instinct. We'll be looking at how you approach product thinking, prioritisation and decision-making rather than testing for a single "right" answer.