Associate Director, Product Management
Company: Precision Medicine Group
Location: Bethesda
Posted on: November 1, 2024
Job Description:
Associate Director, Product Management (Business Intelligence -
Sample Operations & Biomarker Data analytics)
at Precision Medicine Group (View all jobs)
Remote, United States
QuartzBio ( www.quartz.bio ) is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
solutions provider to the life sciences industry. We deliver
innovative, data enabling technologies (i.e., software) that
provide biotech/pharma (R&D) teams with enterprise-level access
to sample/biomarker data management solutions & analytics,
information, insight & reporting capabilities.
Our end-to-end (from sample collection to biomarker data) suite of
solutions are focused on providing sponsors information (data with
context) - we do this by connecting biospecimen, assay as well as
clinical data sources in a secure and scalable cloud-based
infrastructure, enabling seamless, automated data management
workflows, key insight development, improved collaboration, and the
ability to make faster, more informed decisions.
Position Title:
Associate Director, Product Management (Business Intelligence -
Sample operations & Biomarker data analytics)
Position Summary:
As we continue to expand our product management team, we are
seeking a highly skilled Product management leader in Sample
(Biospecimen) operations and Biomarker data analytics subject
domain to lead product management of our product (product that
enables analytics on sample inventory & biomarker data). This
leadership role is responsible for driving product leadership in
laying out the vision, creating integrated sample inventory
operations & biomarker analytics roadmaps by working with multiple
internal and external stakeholders, and building the product
through collaboration with multiple teams (Engg, QA, Data sciences,
Infra).
Key Responsibilities:
- Product vision:
- Research and determine client and Market needs for a SaaS based
sample inventory operations & biomarker data analytics product
- Collate and distill ideas, to create a backlog of feature and
component ideas for building analytics around Clinical Samples &
biomarker data
- Create and manage a visual representation of the vision around
Clinical Sample & biomarker data analytics
- Ensure that the analytics product roadmap (features across
releases) aligns with the product vision.
- Product Strategy:
- Assess current product and platform, identify key components
and feature groups that needs to be available for satisfying vision
of the for clinical sample & biomarker data analytics product.
- Analyze current technical landscape (Data Sciences, ML & AI) to
incorporate AI features for sample inventory analytics
- Deep Collaboration with data platform product team for data
ingestion, data quality, data transformation of sample operations
data to provision for clinical sample analytics
- Conceptualize short term, mid-term and future state of
analytics of the various persona using the clinical sample
analytics product
- Define and create strategy around descriptive, predictive and
prescriptive analytics around for clinical sample and biomarker
data analytics product
- Create for clinical sample & biomarker data analytics strategy
framework that enables creation of library of out of the box
analytics and enabled continuous enhancement of the library though
implementation.
- Product Roadmaps:
- Create for clinical sample & biomarker data analytics product
scope by decomposing product to components, subcomponents, feature
groups, features and map the features to end user benefits
- Collaborate with data platform team as a Biospecimen sample
operations & Biomarker data SME for an integrated sample operations
& biomarker data platform and analytics roadmap
- Perform and Lead sample operations & biomarker data analytics
feature prioritization based on end user, internal and external
stakeholder needs
- Collaborate with engineering and QA groups for discovery
workshops and to enable estimation of the features
- Publish and manage roadmaps that meets the stakeholder
requirements and schedule.
- Product Feature Requirements:
- Create and maintain channels for sample operations &.
Biomarker data analytics features intake process (ideas to
features)
- Act as a Lead SME for sample operations & biomarker data
processing to the data platform team during integrated release
planning stage.
- Manage product backlog and plan out the feature selection as
part of release planning process
- Enable Business analysts to detail the data platform features
to user stories and low fidelity wireframes
- Enable Product design team for data platform user research,
user experience and to create high fidelity wireframes
- Product Releases:
- Lead Product grooming sessions with product development
functional groups (Engg, Data sciences, QA)
- Perform and lead product management efforts as part of Agile
product development efforts (clarifications, follow-ups, feedback
on development & QA)
- Lead collaboration with Product QA to plan our test and
validation release strategy specific to sample operations
analytics
- Plan and lead strategical and tactical workarounds (by working
with development teams) in case of bottle necks, roadblocks during
product development
- Lead collaboration with vendor teams in case of buy and
partnership scenarios in building out components of the sample
operations analytics product
- Lead collaboration with product operations team for all aspects
of product release process for every major, minor and sub-minor
releases.
- Post release:
- Lead collaboration efforts with product support team to set up
hyper-care team and process after every release
- Lead collection and analysis of release feedback to incorporate
the feedback as feature enhancements for future releases
- Lead triage of defects and bugs, identify workarounds and
collaborate with product support team
- As necessary, plan out minor and sub-minor versions of product
release with product operations team and other functional
groups
- Product Usage:
- Define and manage metrics framework for measuring analytics
product's business goals, product implementation, end user
satisfaction and delight (Business metrics, Implementation metrics,
Usage metrics, adoption metrics)
- Collaborate with finance and senior leadership team to measure
and improve product financial goals (SaaS finance metrics)
- Define, manage product management operational metrics to
improve his/her product management function
- Product Stakeholder management
- Conduct Periodic stakeholder meetings to provide update on
product strategy and releases
- Build strong relationship with data platform technical and QA
lead to deliver product releases.
- Create and execute framework to collaborate with stakeholders
across internal R&D team and collaboration across other
functional groups such as sales/Marketing, Product support,
finance.
- Build and execute framework to get product strategy inputs from
external stakeholders
- Thought Leadership
- Collaborate with Marketing & content team to publish articles
for though leadership in sample operations & biomarker data
analytics
- Conduct sessions (individually or through networks) on building
next generation sample operations & biomarker data analytics.
- Team Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing team of Business analysts,
fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Set clear objectives, provide coaching and mentorship, and
evaluate team performance.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field; MBA or advanced degree
preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in
product/service/project/program management or software development,
delivering large scale software products or services in clinical
space.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Bioinformatics (Biomarker
data) and/or Clinical operations (Sample operations)
- Strong experience in solutioning around processing and
analytics of Clinical operations data (Sample) & Biomarkers
data
- Proven track record of a subject and domain expert in Clinical
operations (Sample operations) and/or Biomarker data (e.g.
MSD(cytokines), ELISA, Epiontis, Flow Cytometry,
Immunohistochemistry (IHC), nanoString, NGS data.)
- Excellent leadership and team-building skills, with a track
record of managing and developing high-performing Business analyst
teams.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, able to
convey complex Business technical strategies to both Business and
technical stakeholders.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to use data-driven insights
to inform decisions.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and the ability to make
critical decisions in high-pressure situations.
- Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Skill in presenting well-organized and convincing information
that is clear and efficient and can be understood by all
audiences.
- Demonstrated proficiency in business proposals methods and
techniques for preparing and presenting business cases, both orally
and in writing.
- Good working knowledge of metrics to forecast project cost,
schedule, effort, and quality.
- Excellent focus on customers, peers and key vendor
relationships to ensure expectations are met.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in product management of building SaaS Platforms
(Clinical operations & Biomarker based solutions)
- Experienced in creating product strategy & roadmaps
- Experience in AI enabled solutions
Leadership expectations:
- Ability to think strategically, setting a long-term vision and
strategy for their organization, and aligning their goals with the
overall goals of the company.
- Manage change effectively, creating a culture of continuous
improvement, adapting to new market conditions and evolving
customer needs.
- Attract, develop, and retain top talent, creating a culture of
learning and growth, identifying skills gaps and providing
development opportunities.
- Communicate effectively with their team members, stakeholders,
and other leaders in the organization, providing clear direction,
feedback, and performance expectations.
- Possess high levels of emotional intelligence, including
self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills, to be
effective leaders.
- Build strong relationships with their team members,
stakeholders, and other leaders in the organization, fostering
collaboration and teamwork.
- Provide regular coaching and feedback to their team members,
helping them to develop their skills and achieve their goals.
- Motivate and inspire their team members, creating a positive
and supportive work environment that fosters creativity,
innovation, and high performance.
- Manage conflicts that arise within the team or with other
teams, resolving issues in a fair and objective manner.
- Ability to make sound decisions that support the goals of the
organization, considering the perspectives of all stakeholders and
balancing competing priorities. They should also be able to manage
risks effectively and take decisive action when needed. Provide
consistent guidance, fostering professional growth and skill
advancement.
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Precision is required by law in some states or cities to include a
reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This
compensation range takes into account the wide range of factors
that are considered in making compensation decisions including but
not limited to: skill sets, experience and training, licensure and
certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The
disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable
geographic differential associated with the location at which the
position may be filled. At Precision, it is not typical for an
individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their
role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and
circumstances of each case. This role is also eligible for a
discretionary annual bonus, health insurance, retirement savings
benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave,
and paid time off for sick leave and vacation, among other
benefits.
Reasonable estimate of the current range
$156,800 - $235,200 USD
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