Principal Product Manager – Health

Overview

As a Principal Product Manager in Hippo Digital’s Health practice, you will shape portfolio vision and steer product strategy across health portfolios to improve public health outcomes. You’ll lead at portfolio or programme level, mentor senior product leaders, and engage with NHS and other health stakeholders to drive high-value, scalable results. You will represent product strategy at executive level, champion user-centred design, and align data, AI, and innovation with healthcare standards. This is a chance to influence health policy, transform care delivery, and build a strong health product community.

Pay / Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 Days Holiday + UK Public Holidays
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Wellbeing contribution

Responsibilities

• Own and steer strategic direction for health product portfolios
• Define overarching vision, roadmap, and business models for portfolios
• Represent product at executive level and shape organisational policy
• Set portfolio objectives cascading from health missions to product goals
• Implement delivery and risk frameworks across portfolios in complex clinical/data environments
• Improve organisational standards for user and patient research
• Define data, AI, and innovation strategies aligning with healthcare standards
• Mentor senior leaders and build capability across the health product function

Key requirements

• Proven strategic experience across major health and care organisations
• Ability to translate healthcare policies and trends into strategic product investment areas
• Experience leading change strategies aligning delivery with long-term health goals
• Ability to build portfolio-level strategy and metrics to improve patient outcomes
• Cross-departmental collaboration and building psychological safety across NHS boundaries
• Stakeholder engagement with senior clinicians and health partners
• Familiarity with GDS and NHS service standards and regulatory environments

• Strategic thinking
• Stakeholder engagement
• Coaching and mentorship
• Portfolio-level strategy
• Metrics framework design
• Data-driven decision making

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