Principal Product Manager (Genomics)

Location: Hybrid, with offices in London, Cambridge and Leeds, United Kingdom; minimum office attendance is generally twice per month, varying by role and team.

Salary from £95,500 per year.

Company

hirify.global enables genomic medicine and research through national-scale genomic data, healthcare software systems and research infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead a strategically important product area, setting its vision, strategy, intended outcomes and product direction.
• Coordinate discovery, direction and delivery across related products, services and squads.
• Set OKRs, roadmaps and focused backlogs aligned with programme and organisational priorities.
• Frame ambiguous problems, gather requirements, test assumptions and use research, experimentation and evidence to guide decisions.
• Balance participant needs, strategic value, feasibility, delivery constraints, risk, sustainability and regulatory responsibilities.
• Collaborate with participants, researchers, designers, architects, engineers, data specialists, policy, governance, operations and senior leaders; mentor Product Managers and potentially line-manage 1–2 product people.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience leading complex product areas at Principal Product Manager level or equivalent.
• Experience shaping product vision, strategy, outcomes and roadmaps across complex product areas and translating strategy into focused action.
• Deep experience leading discovery, including framing ambiguous problems, gathering requirements, testing assumptions with research and evidence, and making product decisions.
• Strong understanding of user-centred product development, using qualitative and quantitative data to shape priorities and measure impact.
• Experience leading across multiple teams, disciplines or products, creating alignment, managing dependencies and making trade-offs.
• Strong stakeholder leadership, including communicating complex choices, challenging assumptions constructively and building trust across organisational boundaries.
• Sound judgement balancing user value, organisational priorities, feasibility, risk and sustainability in complex or sensitive contexts.
• Experience across the full product lifecycle, from discovery and proposition development through delivery, adoption and continuous improvement.
• Collaborative product leadership, including mentoring Product Managers and strengthening product practice. Prior genomics experience is not required.

Nice to have

• Experience with sensitive data or in healthcare, life sciences, government, financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with participant, patient, citizen or customer consent, preferences and ongoing engagement.
• Experience in healthcare, clinical research, genomics or data-intensive scientific infrastructure and software.
• Experience supporting responsible access, stewardship or secondary use of sensitive data.
• Experience working within complex governance, assurance, ethical or regulatory frameworks, or on know-your-customer work.

Culture & Benefits

• Blended working model with flexible hybrid arrangements and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually, subject to approval.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and additional long-service leave.
• Enhanced family leave, defined contribution pension with employer double-matching up to 10%, life assurance and financial wellbeing schemes.
• Individual learning budgets, training and certification support, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription.
• Gym membership subsidy, Headspace and Blinkist access, Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests and flu jabs.
• Inclusive workplace focused on equity, diversity, respect and removing barriers in recruitment.

Hiring process

• Successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service check.
• Recruitment processes can be adjusted to support candidate accessibility needs.