Salary: £68,525 per annum Band: UKRI Band G Contract Type: Open ended Hours: Full-time/Part Time (minimum 0.8 FTE) (flexible working available) Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire - Hybrid working available Closing Date: Sunday 9th November 2025 About the role The Head of Product and Design is responsible for ensuring UKRI services are designed to effectively meet both user and organisational needs. In today''s software as a service environment, UKRI no longer builds every service from scratch. The role holder plays a pivotal role in understanding business needs and ensuring that all platforms, whether off the shelf like UKRI''s Oracle Fusion or in house developed services such as The UKRI Funding Service and Databank work together as an integrated digital ecosystem that serves our staff, stakeholders and wider external communities. Users are demanding. Services cannot just be set and forget. They must be configured to meet user needs and then iterated to meet changing needs. The role ensures that accessing all UKRI services becomes a seamless experience for users, reducing manual processing and improving outcomes. It ensures the technology we invest in is an enabler to success. This includes the application of user-centred design techniques and processes throughout the full life cycle-from initial concept through to delivery. The role provides expert guidance on UK Government digital standards and ensuring services are secure, compliant and accessible, while mitigati