Senior Product Manager - Health Tech & NHS Impact

Hippo; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

25 Days Holiday

Perkbox access for discounts

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Job summary

Hippo Digital is seeking a Senior Product Manager to shape strategy and lead health-sector delivery for NHS and wider public health clients. You will steer vision, empower multidisciplinary teams, and translate client ambitions into high-impact outcomes.

You’ll champion user-centred design, coach teams, and navigate complex healthcare regulations while leveraging AI to improve delivery quality and efficiency. This is a client-facing, leadership-focused role with travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• Lead a team of people that are specialists in their field
• Identify and use evidence of value to drive decision‑making to ensure the user and patient are at the heart of the team
• Build consensus amongst people with different perspectives, with the confidence to make decisive decisions when consensus is not possible
• Bridge the gap between stakeholders and the team so the team can remain focused on delivery
• Find pragmatic and creative ways to balance constraints such as policy and security in order to prioritise work and meet user needs.
• Perform well in a wide variety of delivery disciplines (Scrum, Kanban)
• Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client.
• Lead workshops and group exercises, remotely and in‑person.
• Build product and user centric capabilities in others, helping colleagues and clients know what to do when you are not around.
• Apply GDS (Government Digital Service) and NHS Service standards, particularly the Service Manual and Service Assessments.
• Navigate complex regulatory environments, including patient data privacy and clinical safety standards.
• Deliver services through the Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live phases as per GDS guidelines.
• Leverage experience working in or across health and care organisations (e.g. NHS, DHSC, NHSBSA) to drive service integration and improved patient outcomes

Responsibilities

• Driving measurable outcomes and delivering true value for our clients.
• Inspiring and guiding your colleagues by supporting them in understanding the client’s needs, explaining the broader context and getting buy‑in.
• Provide team leadership and protect your team from unwanted distraction where possible, allowing them to focus solely on delivery.
• Engage with stakeholders to create a project vision and translate into a roadmap & prioritised backlog.
• Communicating with an extremely diverse group of people, including experts in their field.
• Lead diverse a multidisciplinary team delivering work on behalf of our high-profile health and care clients
• Leveraging AI and emerging technologies to enhance delivery, improve quality, and optimise execution.

Skills

Health product leadership

Agile coaching

Stakeholder management

User-centered design

Job description

Hippo Digital is seeking a Senior Product Manager to shape strategy and lead health-sector delivery for NHS and wider public health clients. You will steer vision, empower multidisciplinary teams, and translate client ambitions into high-impact outcomes.

You’ll champion user-centred design, coach teams, and navigate complex healthcare regulations while leveraging AI to improve delivery quality and efficiency. This is a client-facing, leadership-focused role with travel to client sites.