Digital Product Manager Apprentice
Dals
STRETFORD (M32 0FP)
Closes on Friday 3 April 2026
Posted on 13 February 2026
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Summary
You will be responsible for supporting the Product team with research, process mapping, functional and technical specifications, and project coordination. Working closely with Product Owners, you’ll contribute to improving products and gain hands‑on experience across the product lifecycle.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Digital product manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am - 5.30pm with 60-min break.
Hybrid working - 3 days in office, 2 days from home.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 4 May 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Support the Product Team in developing and improving systems so they best meet the needs of clients, interpreters and colleagues
- Work closely with Product Owners to assist with research, gather insights and contribute to product decision making
- Map and document processes to understand how systems and teams operate
- Help document functional and technical requirements for new or improved product features
- Assist in coordinating product related projects, including planning, tracking progress and maintaining documentation
- Contribute to testing activities, helping ensure new features and system changes are delivered effectively
- Collaborate with colleagues across different teams to support the development and enhancement of digital products
- Maintain organised records, notes and updates to support smooth communication and project flow
Where you'll work
FOURTH FLOOR
STATHAM HOUSE
TALBOT ROAD
STRETFORD
M32 0FP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
QA LIMITED
Training course
Digital product manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Diagnose problems by breaking problems down systematically into component parts and identify the relationships between those parts.
- Reflect critically on results/data/insights to identify improvements.
- Utilise iterative and sequential methodologies as appropriate to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product delivery lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify the appropriate solution using relevant methodologies, principles and approaches.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Translate back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify users, who they are, and what their needs are, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Engage various stakeholders, utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example but not limited to peer review, formal technical review, user research and testing.
- Utilise planning and prioritisation techniques to organise and manage the product backlog to deliver value and benefits.
- Produce reports, roadmaps, plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management at various levels within the organisation.
- Use product management life cycle tools and techniques. Where appropriate automate mechanical tasks such as scheduling, resource balancing, and time recording.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
- Use data to inform decision making.
- Diagnose problems by breaking problems down systematically into component parts and identify the relationships between those parts.
- Reflect critically on results/data/insights to identify improvements.
- Utilise iterative and sequential methodologies as appropriate to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product delivery lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify the appropriate solution using relevant methodologies, principles and approaches.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Translate back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify users, who they are, and what their needs are, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Engage various stakeholders, utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example but not limited to peer review, formal technical review, user research and testing.
- Utilise planning and prioritisation techniques to organise and manage the product backlog to deliver value and benefits.
- Produce reports, roadmaps, plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management at various levels within the organisation.
- Use product management life cycle tools and techniques. Where appropriate automate mechanical tasks such as scheduling, resource balancing, and time recording.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
- Use data to inform decision making.
Training schedule
Digital Product Manager Level 4.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Team working
Other requirements
DBS.
About this employer
At Dals, we enable people and organisations to tackle critical language challenges every day. Our interpreting and translation services cover more than 500 languages, including BSL and other non-spoken languages. We connect clients and their service users with crucial expertise whenever and wherever they need it—because the world is a better, fairer place when everyone is understood.
Our people are our future, and we take care of them. Through community partnerships and social value initiatives, we continuously work to ensure Dals has a positive impact on the world.
https://dals.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Proceed into higher roles within Product Management and also go on to achieve more qualifications.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
QA LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000015526.
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Closes on Friday 3 April 2026
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