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

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to own and evolve a crucial set of data-focused, backend services and platform capabilities, which sit at the core of the Healthcare Genomics Service. 

These are critical, production systems used by multiple teams across Genomics England. They’re built on modern cloud infrastructure, API-driven architectures, and shared platform services, and they underpin how genomic data is processed, accessed, and used at national scale  

This is not just a feature delivery role; you will use your expertise and your experience to own complex, live systems, enabling the right technical decisions for the products, and shaping platforms that other teams rely on every day.  

If you naturally think in systems, properly understand how platform decisions scale impact, and are comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership and ambiguity, this will likely resonate  

What you’ll be doing:  

• Own a set of shared data and platform products, responsible for their direction, performance, and long-term evolution. 
• Define clear product strategy and outcomes - align to organisational priorities, set and own squad OKRs, and translate these into focused roadmaps and backlogs.
• Work closely with engineers and technical leads to shape scalable, API-first architectures that maximise reuse, reduce complexity, and enable teams to move faster.
• Make decisions about how your products evolve - balancing enhancements, scale, and stability alongside migration away from legacy components where appropriate.
• Managing products that are part of a regulated environment to meet compliance, audit, and assurance requirements.
• Use data and well-thought-through proxy metrics to measure impact, particularly where value is indirect or spans multiple teams.
• Collaborate across squads to shape shared capabilities, reduce duplication, and put in place platform guardrails that enable teams rather than constrain them.
• Manage stakeholders with clarity and confidence, being transparent on priorities, trade-offs, and risk, and stepping in to resolve issues quickly and decisively.
• Mentor and support other product managers and team members, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Drive cross-team initiatives that improve platform health, developer experience, and operational efficiency.  

What we’re looking for:  

• You are a Senior Product Manager who is experienced and comfortable owning data-focused shared / platform products on which teams across the organisation are dependent.
• You understand how to manage technical platforms and shared systems as products, with a clear strategy and roadmap, a focus on user needs, and delivering measurable outcomes. 
• You have confidence and experience in managing existing live systems and products (including managing them through the product lifecycle). 
• You are comfortable working directly with engineers to understand and shape longer-term platform evolution. 

While your qualifications are certainly important and provide a foundation, we are particularly interested in understanding the breadth and depth of your overall experience, as this gives us a clearer picture of what you can bring to the role.

Salary From: £86,100
Please Note: This is a 1 Year FTC (Fixed Term Contract)
Closing Date: Friday 10th April

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• 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 & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. 

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Culture

We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture | Genomics England

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.