Principal Product Manager

Company Description

Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare. Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives. By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benefits and advances for the future.

Our mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Behind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems.

We’re on the cusp of big changes with the real prospect of genomics becoming the fabric of everyday healthcare through the lifetime - from birth to old age.

Job Description

Principal Product Manager, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract (FTC)

At Genomics England, we’re looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to provide product leadership for work on the trustworthy stewardship of genomic data and how we manage our relationship with those who choose to share their data for research.

Our products and services operate in a uniquely sensitive environment. They must enable genomic data to be used responsibly for research while respecting the choices, expectations and trust of the people whose data makes this work possible.

This creates complex product challenges that extend beyond a single feature, journey or team. They involve multiple products, people, policies, data, and technologies. They span operations and governance, with decisions that have lasting implications for participants, researchers, healthcare services and Genomics England.

This is where you will make a difference

As a proven Principal Product Manager, you’ll lead a strategically important product area that is an organisational priority. You will partner with the programme lead to set its vision, strategy and intended outcomes while coordinating discovery, direction and delivery across related products, services and squads. You will support with the leadership of the wider team, deputising for the programme lead where required.

You’ll establish clarity where the path is uncertain, bring teams and senior stakeholders together around shared outcomes, and translate strategic direction into meaningful OKRs, coherent roadmaps and focused priorities.

You’ll initially lead the team through early discovery product work, with a view to shaping delivery further down the line. This means ensuring we understand the right problems and gathering requirements before committing to solutions, using evidence to test assumptions and helping cross functional teams create products and services that are useful, feasible, responsible and sustainable.

This is a true Principal individual contributor role with meaningful scope to influence beyond a single squad. You’ll connect related work, manage complex dependencies and help teams make effective product decisions while remaining close enough to delivery to understand where support, challenge or intervention is needed.

You’ll collaborate with participants, user researchers, designers, architects, engineers, data specialists, policy and governance colleagues, operational teams and senior leaders. Through clear direction, constructive challenge and inclusive decision making, you’ll help people navigate competing priorities and make thoughtful trade-offs.

You’ll also play a leadership role within the wider product management chapter at Genomics England, owning cross-chapter initiatives, mentoring Product Managers and helping to drive excellent practice across teams. You may have direct line management responsibility for 1-2 product people.

Why this role matters

Participants are central to genomic research. Maintaining their trust requires more than meeting regulatory obligati…