[What you will be working on]
As a Product Manager, you will hold significant ownership over your product domain, driving it from concept to reality while aligning with the broader programme goals. Your core responsibilities include:
Establishing and Communicating a Clear Product Vision
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Execute Own and articulate the product vision for a centralised data discovery platform, ensuring alignment across engineering, design, policy, and senior stakeholders
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Contribute to Define and maintain a coherent product strategy that positions the platform as the single entry point for government data discovery, replacing fragmented multi-platform behaviour
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Collaborate with programme leadership and agency partners to secure buy-in and drive adoption at scale across government
Driving Catalogue Growth and Coverage
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ExecuteLead the strategy to expand the platform’s central catalogue by working with agency data owners and platform teams to surface more government data in one place — without necessarily requiring agencies to migrate their underlying systems
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Identify and resolve the technical, operational, and incentive barriers that prevent agency datasets from being discoverable centrally, and develop scalable approaches to address them
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Work with agency data owners to improve metadata completeness and quality so that datasets are genuinely useful to discover, not just listed
Improving Search, Discovery, and Request Experience
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Own the end-to-end user experience for data discovery, from search and browse to dataset evaluation, access request, and approval
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Use search analytics and user research to identify where the discovery journey breaks down — and drive iterative, evidence-based improvements
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Explore how emerging technologies, including AI, might fundamentally reimagine how users find and evaluate data relevant to their needs — going beyond conventional search to ask what a great discovery experience could look like
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Ensure that data consumers can assess dataset fitness-for-purpose directly within the discovery experience, without needing to contact data owners separately
Streamlining the Request and Approval Workflow
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Drive consolidation of the inter-agency data request process into a single, trackable workflow within the platform, reducing fragmentation and improving visibility for both requestors and approvers
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Work with policy and governance teams to digitalise and simplify approval processes, reducing time from request creation to first data access
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Enable data providers to manage their sharing obligations — including approvals, rejections, and monitoring — through a single console experience
Reducing Friction Between Discovery and Data Use
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Investigate and address the gap between a user finding a dataset and being able to actually use it in their work — understanding where friction exists in how data is accessed, integrated, and consumed across different working environments
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Define and validate approaches that reduce the effort required for users to go from discovery to productive use, without prescribing a fixed technical solution upfront
Driving Adoption and Go-to-Market
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Develop and execute a go-to-market strategy that consolidates user mindshare around a single discovery platform, replacing fragmented awareness across competing products
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Build and maintain relationships with key agency stakeholders — both data providers and data consumers — to drive onboarding, usage, and feedback loops
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Use consolidated user activity data to generate insights that improve the product and demonstrate value to programme leadership and agency partners
Monitoring, Measuring, and Iterating
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Define and track product metrics that reflect real discovery success (e.g. search success rate, time from request to first access, catalogue coverage) rather than vanity metrics
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Run structured experiments and user studies to validate product decisions and prioritise the roadmap
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Maintain a clear, well-reasoned product backlog and communicate trade-offs transparently to stakeholders
Compliance and Governance
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Ensure the platform meets security, performance, and data governance requirements applicable to a whole-of-government system handling sensitive metadata and access workflows
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Adhere to compliance requirements and audits (IM8, AGO, QMS, etc.)