Principal Product Manager - Health

Hippo Digital Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

25 Days Holiday

Perkbox access

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Salary sacrifice electric vehicles

Season ticket loans

Wellbeing sessions

Job summary

Hippo Digital is recruiting for Principal Product Managers to join our Health Sector. You will lead strategic direction across product portfolios, shape NHS-facing solutions, and translate client ambitions into large-scale outcomes.

As a Principal Consultant specialising in Product, you’ll mentor Senior Product Managers, advocate for user-centred design, and represent the product function at executive level across health and care organisations.

Qualifications

• Strategic leadership across health portfolios and NHS-facing initiatives.
• Ability to translate policy and market trends into product investment areas.
• Mentor and develop senior product managers and teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and define the strategic direction of health product portfolios.
• Lead the development of roadmaps and business models for healthcare products.
• Represent the product function at executive level with senior stakeholders in health organisations.
• Set portfolio objectives and cascade them to product goals across teams.
• Define delivery and risk management practices across a portfolio in complex clinical/data environments.
• Drive user- and patient-research enhancements to inform product decisions.
• Shape data, AI, and innovation strategies aligned with healthcare standards.

Skills

Portfolio leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Job description

About The Role

Hippo Digital is recruiting for Principal Product Managers to join our growing Health Sector. As a strategic product leader within Health, you will be instrumental in shaping portfolio vision, influencing health organisational strategy, and transforming client ambitions into impactful, large-scale results. You’ll champion strategic direction across entire product portfolios, empower leaders, and drive the delivery of high-value outcomes that significantly improve public health outcomes while navigating the complexities of the NHS and wider healthcare landscape.

As a Principal Consultant, specialising in Product, you’ll already be a recognised expert in your field, leading at the portfolio or programme level. You will bring proven strategic experience working across major health and care organisations, such as NHSE, DHSC, NHSBSA, ICBs, Primary or Secondary Care.

You will be a leader of leaders, coaching Senior Product Managers and advocating for user-centred design across the health sector. Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise, represent the product function at the executive level, influence senior health stakeholders, and shape our own organisational culture.

Your role in a nutshell

• Owning and leading the strategic direction of areas within the Hippo product community. Leveraging your experience to develop and grow the community.


• Defining and leading the overarching strategic vision, roadmap, and business models for entire product portfolios within the health sector.


• Representing the product function at the executive level, shaping organisational policy, and advocating for product-centric changes with senior client leadership in health and care organisations.


• Establishing overarching strategy and objectives for a portfolio, including cascading objectives from the overarching health missions down to individual product goals.


• Defining and implementing delivery and risk management frameworks across a portfolio, proactively mitigating strategic challenges in complex clinical and data environments.


• Driving the improvement of organisational standards for user and patient research, ensuring patient needs are at the heart of all product work.


• Defining data, AI, and innovation strategies that align with healthcare standards, optimising for value, clinical safety, and the ethical adoption of future technological changes.


• Mentoring and coaching Senior leaders, fostering institutional learning and building capability across the health product profession.

Skills and experience that you need

People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our public‑sector clients and their patients. We take a common‑sense approach to getting things done, learning from experience and adapting as we go.

We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you have the ability to:

• Translate complex healthcare policies, market analysis, and emerging trends, such as the clinical application of AI, into actionable strategic decisions and product investment areas for a health portfolio.


• Architect and lead change strategies that align project delivery with long‑term health organisational goals, addressing underlying processes, tools, and cultural norms.


• Build portfolio‑level strategy and establish metrics frameworks to regularly review performance against patient outcomes and initiate strategic pivots based on data‑driven insights.


• Define and influence organisational structure, processes, and culture to enable effective cross‑departmental collaboration and psychological safety across complex NHS boundaries.


• Anticipate long‑term threats and opportunities, influencing policy and investment to embed resilience, clinical safety, and patient data privacy as foundational principles.


• Lead collaboration efforts with a wide range of internal teams, clinical experts, external partners, and senior stakeholders, successfully presenting evidence‑based business cases.


• Champion and embed GDS (Government Digital Service) and NHS Service standards at an organisational and portfolio level, guiding multiple products and capabilities through service assessments and complex regulatory environments.

What makes us great

Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on‑top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)


• 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays


• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts


• Critical illness cover


• Life assurance and death in service cover


• Volunteer days


• Cycle‑to‑work scheme for the avid cyclists


• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme


• Season ticket loans


• Financial and general wellbeing sessions


• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:


• Private health cover


• Private dental cover


• Additional company pension contributions


• Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)


• Wellbeing contribution


• Charity contributions


• Tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio‑economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data‑informed evidence, human‑centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human‑centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.

Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.

Have a look through our Website at Our Story & Purpose, Our Culture & Values, Case Studies and Our Solutions & Services to find out some more!

Hippo Locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We’re on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on‑site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.