Technical Product Manager III, SLIMS

Why join Freenome?

Freenome is a high-growth biotech company developing tests to detect cancer using a standard blood draw. To do this, Freenome uses a multiomics platform that combines tumor and non-tumor signals with machine learning to find cancer in its earliest, most-treatable stages. 

Cancer is relentless. This is why Freenome is building the clinical, economic, and operational evidence to drive cancer screening and save lives. Our first screening test is for colorectal cancer (CRC) and advanced adenomas, and it’s just the beginning. 

Founded in 2014, Freenome has ~500 employees and more than $1.1B in funding from key investors, such as the American Cancer Society, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthem Blue Cross, Bain Capital, Colorectal Cancer Alliance, DCVC, Fidelity, Google Ventures, Kaiser Permanente, Novartis, Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital, Roche, Sands Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Verily.  

At Freenome, we aim to impact patients by empowering everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease. This, together with our high-performing culture of respect and cross-collaboration, is what motivates us to make every day count. 

Become a Freenomer

Do you have what it takes to be a Freenomer? A “Freenomer” is a determined, mission-driven, results-oriented employee fueled by the opportunity to change the landscape of cancer and make a positive impact on patients’ lives. Freenomers bring their diverse experience, expertise, and personal perspective to solve problems and push to achieve what’s possible, one breakthrough at a time.

About this opportunity:

The Technical Product Manager III role will work closely with Product Analysts, Engineering, and Project Managers to plan, develop, test and support lab software at Freenome. In this role, you will capture lab software requirements with input from Lab Operations, Research and Clinical Development stakeholders. You will manage and prioritize these requirements for the Engineering Teams and assist with creation of testing strategies in order to ensure a quality product is delivered. 

In order to execute, you will work in a cross-functional team setting to outline a sound development strategy based on user needs. Comprehensive knowledge in, including but not limited to, lab systems/flows, lab automation integration, design planning (i.e. user acceptance testing, validation, verification), risk analysis and agile/scrum methodologies are required in order to achieve your objectives. Your efforts will address the needs of our business by ensuring a stable, effective and efficient lab software system necessary for CRC screening. 

What you’ll do:

• Manage development processes, systems and software infrastructure necessary for sample processing at scale: 
  • Define and ship new internal software systems to increase productivity and integrity
  • Improve existing software tools for laboratory and operations teams
  • Lead projects at a cross-functional level including laboratory workflows as well as upstream and downstream integrations
  • Create product requirement documents (PRDs) and tangible roadmaps for engineering teams through Agile 
  • Track and drive development and ensure fulfillment of requirements using issue tracking system (e.g., Jira)
  • Facilitate productive interactions between users and engineers to ensure needs are understood and met

Must haves:

• BS in a scientific or related technical field, an understanding of molecular biology 
• 5+ years of experience in a software development environment, ideally within biotechnology or laboratory space
• Deep knowledge and experience with shipping backend software systems and infrastructure (concept through execution) 
• Direct experience with laboratory operations
• Direct experience working with off the shelf LIMS systems such as SLIMS, as well as in-house LIMS system
• Experience leading software development efforts to meet regulated market standards (e.g., FDA, CAP/CLIA, ISO or CE-mark)
• Experienced expert at identification and prioritization of software features 
• Demonstrated track record of excelling in a process driven function
• Demonstration of measurably improving organizational success and processes
• Demonstration of leading complex trade-off decisions between functions
• Demonstration of scaling or navigating a new area to become an expert

Nice to haves:

• Certification or formal training in software development with experience using resource management tools (agile and scrum certifications)
• Deep knowledge in data science/machine learning software and tools

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