At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead product strategy and collaborate with diverse teams to drive innovation.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking organisation focused on genomics and knowledge management.
- Benefits: Enjoy 30 days' holiday, flexible working, and generous family leave policies.
- Other info: Be part of a collaborative community that values inclusivity and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in healthcare by shaping cutting-edge products.
- Qualifications: Strong product management experience and ability to lead complex projects.
The predicted salary is between 59576 - 70089 £ per year.
Responsibilities Lead the product strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for products within the Knowledge Management squad, ensuring they align with service priorities and organisational OKRs.
Own and prioritise a complex product backlog, balancing new development, maintenance, technical improvement, compliance, and stakeholder needs.
Assess build‑buy‑partner‑reuse options, balancing user value, strategic fit, technical feasibility, cost, risk, and long‑term sustainability.
Work closely with engineers, technical leads, scientists, curators, clinical safety colleagues, service owners, and other product managers to frame problems, evaluate trade‑offs, and make confident decisions.
Guide the squad through significant technical and data changes, including updates to clinical data, genomic annotation, reference data, and other knowledge assets that affect multiple services and products.
Collaborate across squads and teams to align roadmaps, manage dependencies, and bring people with you through change, even where you have no direct authority.
Use evidence, user insight, operational data, and technical understanding to shape priorities and measure whether the squad delivers value.
Ensure products are reliable, well‑supported, and compliant with relevant regulatory, clinical safety, data, quality, and technical standards.
Communicate clearly with stakeholders at different levels, providing transparency on priorities, risks, decisions, and progress.
Create space for strategy and discovery while supporting a self‑organising squad to deliver high‑quality outcomes at pace.
Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, and continuously improving product community at Genomics England.
Qualifications Strong product management experience, with a track record of leading complex technical, data, scientific or platform products.
Evidence of strong product leadership, including shaping strategy, roadmaps, priorities and measurable outcomes.
Ability to make clear, well‑judged product decisions in ambiguous environments, balancing user needs, technical complexity, risk, regulatory considerations and organisational goals.
Confidence working with highly specialised experts across technical, scientific, clinical or engineering domains, without needing to be the deepest domain expert in the room.
Excellent stakeholder leadership, with the ability to influence senior leaders, align different perspectives and bring multidisciplinary teams together around shared outcomes.
Ability to understand complex product ecosystems and make sound product decisions across dependencies between platforms, data products, APIs, services and downstream consumers.
Desirable Skills Genomics experience is valuable, but not essential.
Product leadership experience.
Experience leading complex products in specialist domains such as bioinformatics, data platforms, AI/ML, scientific software or healthcare technology.
Benefits Generous leave: 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
Family‑friendly: blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
Pension
Product Manager employer: Genomics England
Genomics England is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and inclusive work environment in the heart of Cambridge, Leeds, or London. With generous leave policies, flexible working arrangements, and a strong commitment to employee development, we empower our Genomic Data Scientists to thrive both personally and professionally while contributing to groundbreaking cancer research. Our focus on diversity and well-being ensures that every team member feels valued and supported in their journey.
