Senior Product Manager

About

The Role

Hippo is actively seeking Senior Product Managers to join our growing consultancy. As a Senior Consultant specialising in Product, you will draw upon your expertise to inspire and guide colleagues across a range of projects and domains. You will be instrumental in understanding and delivering visions, providing clear objectives, and developing comprehensive roadmaps. Your leadership will extend to coaching and influencing clients and fellow Hippos, further enhancing your leadership capabilities.

Key Responsibilities Vision and Strategy

• Shape and communicate a clear product vision that aligns with organisational goals and delivers measurable outcomes.
• Own and maintain the product roadmap, connecting strategy to delivery.
• Define objectives and success measures that drive focus and accountability.

Delivery and Risk Management

• Lead complex project deliveries and internal operational work streams simultaneously managing dependencies and reducing risk.
• Champion Agile principles, adapting approaches to suit the context.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in delivery.

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration

• Influence senior stakeholders with data led insights that champion user needs.
• Build strong relationships across teams to create alignment and shared purpose.
• Work with the Head of Product to strengthen Hippo's Product Community of Practice.

User Centred Practice and Advocacy

• Ensure user needs, accessibility and inclusion are central to all decisions.
• Champion user centred design across the product lifecycle.

Data and Innovation

• Define and track KPIs and OKRs to measure and improve success.
• Use insights and new technologies to identify opportunities for improvement.

Leadership and Coaching

• Lead multidisciplinary teams with clarity and confidence.
• Mentor product professionals and build long term capability.

Skills and experience that you need

We are a diverse and close knit community united by a passion for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We embrace a common sense approach, learn from experience, and adapt. We remain curious and committed to continuous learning.

Must haves Product Management Expertise

• 5+ years of hands on product experience spanning both product ownership and product management.
• Proven record in defining and delivering product strategy and roadmaps that connect organisational goals to delivery.
• Skilled in prioritisation, discovery, and end to end product delivery.
• Confident in identifying and measuring value, linking outcomes to vision, goals, and user needs.
• Confident in technical product deliveries with proven experience translating complex technical concepts into product requirements that deliver measurable value for users.

Consultancy and Customer/client Engagement

• Experience working with customers using a consultancy/advisory mindset.
• Able to influence ways of working and improve underperforming teams or processes.
• Understands how to balance client/customer needs, organisational goals, and provide appropriate challenge.
• Adaptable beyond standard product management roles, able to move between projects and domains with ease.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping early stage problem spaces.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Leads and influences large, multidisciplinary teams.
• Builds consensus across diverse stakeholders and makes confident decisions when needed.
• Keeps teams focused on delivering outcomes while managing stakeholder expectations at an organisational and strategic level.
• Skilled facilitator of workshops and group sessions.
• Develops capability in others, enabling autonomy across teams and clients.

User Centred Design and Delivery

• Experienced working in cross functional teams using UCD approaches.
• Ensures user needs remain central to design and delivery.
• Understands GDS service phases and the different opportunities and challenges they provide (Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live).
• Aware of and an advocate for accessibility and inclusive design standards.
• Delivers services that balance user needs with political, economic, social, and technical realities.

Organisational and Agile Practice

• Experience working in large, complex organisations with governance and delivery constraints.
• Comfortable managing multiple work streams, dependencies, and priorities.
• Knowledge of Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, Dev Ops).
• Experienced in navigating policy, regulation, and legislative requirements.
• Skilled at redesigning operational processes and guiding implementation.
• Finds pragmatic, creative solutions to delivery challenges.

Desirable Experience

• Experience delivering projects for government or NHS clients.
• Familiarity with GDS standards, assessments, and service phases.

What makes us great

As well as a competitive salary which we're transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in…