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Newcastle Office Based  Competitive Salary and Benefits   Job Role An exciting opportunity has arise for a Product Design Manager to join our successful software company. The role of a Product Design Manager will be challenging, interesting and extremely rewarding. This role will report to the Director of Development and Design, and will be responsible for creating an environment that enables the Product Owners and the User Experience/User Interface designers to flourish. About Orchard Orchard  is a business full of great, talented people, which is based at the heart of Newcastle city centre in vibrant office space. We are constantly working to ensure that we create a happy environment for our staff to learn and develop. We operate within an incredibly important sector, with our customers providing affordable homes to those often most in need of social housing. Our software and services can really help to improve the lives of those in need. We believe in recognising that our people have valuable skills to help our business to succeed and enjoy celebrating our shared successes. Principal Responsibilities Operational Line Manager for Product Owners and UX/UI designers Member of the design and development management team Representing how customers will use our product to internal teams Working closely with Product Management to interpret roadmap requirements and plan the delivery of them Ensure the outputs from their team such as user stories are to the required quality and completeness Helping ensure sprints run efficiently and effectively to deliver the product Assisting in providing content and product documentation Helping triage and review items raised in the Ideas portal Co-ordinating the Product Owners response to information requests and tenders Ensuring the Privacy Impact Assessments are undertaken May also be technical project manager on some projects Strategic Required to attend the co-executive team days Contributing towards the product strategy Working with the respective user groups to help resolve business issues and be a feed for themes of feature requests to product management. Recommending and helping implement process and framework improvements Not being afraid to say no  and providing constructive feedback and recommendations for features / updates Desired Skills Exposure to agile frameworks (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean) Understanding of Gherkin syntax for User Stories Exposure to User Story Mapping, Impact Mapping, MoSCoW & SWOT Experience of domain driven design Salary and Other Benefits Salary commensurate with skills and experience Company pension scheme Permanent health insurance and life assurance Westfield Health Cash Plan Scheme 25 days holiday and an additional Birthday holiday To apply for this role, please email hr@orchard-systems.co.uk with a CV and covering letter. The company reserves the right to vary or amend the duties and responsibilities of the post holder at any time according to the needs of the company’s business