Principal Product Manager, 12 Month FTC (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

Principal Product Manager, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract (FTC)  Job Description  At Genomics England, we’re looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to provide product leadership for work on the trustworthy stewardship of genomic data and how we manage our relationship with those who choose to share their data for research.  Our products and services operate in a uniquely sensitive environment. They must enable genomic data to be used responsibly for research while respecting the choices, expectations and trust of the people whose data makes this work possible.  This creates complex product challenges that extend beyond a single feature, journey or team. They involve multiple products, people, policies, data, and technologies. They span operations and governance, with decisions that have lasting implications for participants, researchers, healthcare services and Genomics England.  This is where you will make a difference  As a proven Principal Product Manager, you’ll lead a strategically important product area that is an organisational priority. You will partner with the programme lead to set its vision, strategy and intended outcomes while coordinating discovery, direction and delivery across related products, services and squads. You will support with the leadership of the wider team, deputising for the programme lead where required.  You’ll establish clarity where the path is uncertain, bring teams and senior stakeholders together around shared outcomes, and translate strategic direction into meaningful OKRs, coherent roadmaps and focused priorities.  You’ll initially lead the team through early discovery product work, with a view to shaping delivery further down the line. This means ensuring we understand the right problems and gathering requirements before committing to solutions, using evidence to test assumptions and helping cross functional teams create products and services that are useful, feasible, responsible and sustainable.  This is a Principal individual contributor role with meaningful scope to influence beyond a single squad. You’ll connect related work, manage complex dependencies and help teams make effective product decisions while remaining close enough to delivery to understand where support, challenge or intervention is needed.  You’ll collaborate with participants, user researchers, designers, architects, engineers, data specialists, policy and governance colleagues, operational teams and senior leaders. Through clear direction, constructive challenge and inclusive decision making, you’ll help people navigate competing priorities and make thoughtful trade-offs.  You’ll also play a leadership role within the wider product management chapter at Genomics England, owning cross-chapter initiatives, mentoring Product Managers and helping to drive excellent practice across teams. You may have direct line management responsibility for 1-2 product people.  Why this role matters  Participants are central to genomic research. Maintaining their trust requires more than meeting regulatory obligations. It means understanding their needs and expectations, involving them meaningfully and designing products and services that handle their choices and data responsibly.  As Principal Product Manager, you’ll help shape how Genomics England approaches these challenges, with consideration to the full product lifecycle, creating a clear connection between participant needs, organisational priorities and the work of multidisciplinary teams.  Your impact will be seen in the product direction you establish, the difficult decisions you support the Programme Lead to navigate and the products and services that emerge from that work, ultimately helping Genomics England maintain trusted relationships with participants and enabl