Principal Product Manager

About The Role

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private sector clients. We are recruiting for a Principal Product Management Consultant to support our mission. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.

As a Principal Product Management Consultant, you will be a strategic product leader and an experienced practitioner. Your scope extends beyond individual products or delivery teams; you will be responsible for shaping product vision, defining product standards, and driving the successful delivery of valuable, user‑centred outcomes  will lead complex product environments, influence organisational strategy, and ensure product thinking is embedded across technology, delivery, and design disciplines.

You will mentor and guide senior product practitioners, contribute to the development of our product capability, and act as a visible leader within both Hippo and our client organisations. As a Principal, you will play a key role in strengthening our product proposition, supporting business growth, and influencing senior stakeholders at executive level. You will bring clarity to complex problems, align teams around outcomes, and drive product direction in high‑impact, influential environments.

• Define and communicate compelling product visions that align organisational strategy with measurable user and business outcomes, ensuring clear direction across complex delivery environments.
• Lead the most complex and strategically important product engagements, connecting vision to delivery through clear objectives, prioritisation, and outcome‑driven roadmaps.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, including executive leadership, using data and insight to influence decision‑making and shape long‑term product and service strategy.
• Drive delivery excellence across multiple initiatives simultaneously, managing dependencies, reducing risk, and adapting agile approaches to suit context and complexity.
• Lead and mentor senior product practitioners, strengthening capability within Hippo's Product community and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Support business growth through pre‑sales activity, shaping product propositions, contributing to bids, and helping clients understand the value of product‑led delivery.
• Represent Hippo's product capability internally and externally, contributing to thought leadership, community engagement, and the ongoing evolution of our product practice.

• Proven ability to lead and mentor product managers, building team capability and supporting long‑term growth.
• Significant hands‑on product experience, spanning product ownership and product management in complex delivery environments.
• Skill in defining and communicating clear product visions and strategies, aligning goals with outcome‑focused roadmaps.
• Ability to lead complex product deliveries end‑to‑end, from discovery through to live operation, ensuring continuous value delivery.
• Expertise in identifying, measuring, and communicating value, linking outcomes to vision and user needs, and using evidence for product decisions.
• Confidence operating in technical environments, translating complex concepts into clear product direction that delivers measurable outcomes.
• Skill in engaging effectively with clients and stakeholders in a consultancy or advisory capacity, building trust while providing appropriate challenge.
• Expertise in balancing client needs, organisational objectives, and user outcomes, making sound decisions in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Capacity to adapt quickly across projects and domains, bringing structure and clarity to early‑stage or uncertain environments.
• Proven ability to lead and influence multiple product managers and multidisciplinary teams, creating alignment and shared purpose.
• Skill in developing capability in others, enabling autonomy and empowering teams…