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Daniel Prendergast
Senior Product Manager
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Founding Contractor · 2026
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Primary specialism
Product & Delivery
Location / working location
Leeds
Current availability
Available within 2 weeks
Confirmed 10 Aug 2026
Profile status
Active contractor profile
Professional profile
Senior Product Manager and digital transformation consultant with 15+ years delivering complex, user-centred digital products across UK government, NHS, financial services and global enterprise. I specialise in leading products through the full lifecycle — from discovery and strategy through to delivery, launch and iteration — and in the modernisation of legacy systems into modern, AI-assisted platforms. I’m currently Lead Product Manager at HM Land Registry, leading discovery for an AI-powered decision engine and intelligent case routing solution. I combine hands-on product craft with genuine AI fluency, having built and shipped my own AI products, and I’m equally comfortable owning roadmaps, prioritising complex backlogs under pressure, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering teams. I operate through my own consultancy, Digital Intensity Ltd, embedding with clients to take full product ownership in complex, regulated and multi-stakeholder environments. Best suited to senior/lead product roles in transformation, AI, public sector and data-rich domains.
Core skills
Product Management
Digital Transformation
AI Product Development
Agile / Scrum / SAFe
Product Strategy & Roadmapping
Discovery & Delivery
Stakeholder Management
Public Sector / GovTech
GDS Service Standard
Case Management & Workflow
Data Products
Backlog Prioritisation
What I’m looking for next
Target roles: Product Manager · Product Owner · Head of Product · Lead Product Manager · Senior Product Manager
Senior or lead product roles in digital transformation, AI product development, public sector / GovTech, financial services or other regulated, data-rich environments. I’m looking for meaty, complex product challenges — ideally involving legacy modernisation, AI-assisted workflows or greenfield product builds — where I can own strategy and delivery end-to-end. Open to both contract (inside or outside IR35) and senior permanent / consultancy roles. Remote-first or hybrid with reasonable travel.
Contract preferences
Working preferenceRemote · Hybrid
Will workLeeds, Manchester, London, Remote
IR35 preferenceOutside IR35 · Inside IR35
Expected rate
£550–£750/day
Active clearanceBPSS
SeniorityLead
Contract lengthAny contract length
IT experience20 years
Contracting experience10 years
Available from14 Sep 2026
Relevant work experience
Recent assignments through Digital Intensity Ltd include: Department for Education (discovery lead defining product strategy for senior leadership); NHS England (AI-assisted preventative health services, Alpha delivery); Kantar (AI knowledge platform, concept to 100 live users using Microsoft Copilot); AstraZeneca (global digital platform across 25+ markets, integrating Veeva CRM and Reltio); Sky (Identity & Access Management across the streaming ecosystem); NHS Digital (national Medical Devices Information System, passing GDS Alpha and Beta); UKHSA, Lloyds Banking Group (Scottish Widows pensions migration) and HMRC (Government Gateway cloud migration). Across these I own product strategy, roadmaps and backlogs, lead multidisciplinary teams, and deliver in complex, regulated, GDS-governed environments. I also build AI products independently — including a live LLM-pipeline platform for evaluating autonomous AI agents. Best suited to senior/lead product roles in transformation, AI, public sector, financial services and data-rich domains.
Experience & credentials
Certifications, sector experience and security clearance are self-declared unless specifically marked as independently verified by IT Contractors UK.
Sector experience
Government · Banking · Pharma · Media · FMCG
Certifications
CSPO — Certified Scrum Product Owner · AgilePM Practitioner (APMG) · Scrum Foundation · GDS Service Standard · MBA (University of Bradford)
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