Associate Director, Technical Product Management

Job Description

The Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) value team in R&D IT brings together product management, engineering, and data science expertise to enable data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists’ ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation and advance the drug discovery and development pipeline.

We are seeking an energetic, collaborative, and experienced technology product manager to join the RaDS IT Product organization as the Product Manager of the Chemical Modality Design Product. This role is positioned with the Composition of Matter (CoM) product line, whose overall mission is to provide connected and enabling capabilities for scientists to design, develop, scale up, control, and distribute CoM from any modality to support clinical development programs. The Chemical Modality Design Product is comprised of both in house created and commercially available applications that scientists use to efficiently execute the Design, Make, Test, Analyze (DMTA) cycle for drug candidates prepared via chemical processes (small molecules, peptides, and conjugates).

The successful candidate will have a track record of delivering value in multidisciplinary environments that intersect science, technology, and product and leading in a highly cross-functional, value-focused, and fast-paced environment. You will be the owner and chief advocate of the Chemical Modality Design product for the RaDS IT Product organization with direct responsibilities including, but not limited to:

• Define product vision, strategy, prioritization, goals, communication strategy, change management plans, and technology roadmap in collaboration with key stakeholders

• Maintain a high level of knowledge of the product, business domain, and user base

• Conduct product discovery with multidisciplinary business and technology teams

• Ongoing product backlog management

• Know your customers and their needs, practice active stakeholder management

• Ensure the product offers valuable and viable solutions for scientists

• Possess financial acumen, and make sound data-driven decisions that create value

Education Minimum:

• B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. in a chemistry or biology related scientific discipline or a technical discipline such as computer science.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years managing technical software products (SaaS, enterprise, or cloud-native) with responsibility for product strategy, roadmap, and P&L or business outcomes.

• Proven track record managing the delivery of innovative wet and dry lab software solutions for (bio)chemists

• Proven strategic thinker with an eagerness to learn as needed to effectively solve problems

• Strong communication skills with ability to align a team on complex multidisciplinary decisions

• Proven negotiation and influencing skills, especially in a matrixed team environment

• Self-starter with advanced prioritization skills, with drive towards data-driven decisions

Preferred:

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Spotfire or Power BI, and Agile methodologies (scrum, Kanban etc.); experience in cheminformatics is a plus

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