Senior Life Sciences Product Manager

Role Overview

Main Duties

• Strategic Development: Play a central role in building capabilities that will empower multiple business-critical software projects.
• Roadmap Leadership: Build insights into Welocalize use cases, strategize where software solutions can be applied to drive business impact and use these insights to build and champion the product roadmap.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Closely partner with outstanding talent across engineering teams and drive tight integration with other systems to build effective software solutions.
• Objective Setting: Define clear OKRs to ensure progress towards our goal of driving software adoption and effectiveness.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal operational stakeholders, external clients, and our engineering team to ensure product success.
• Requirement Analysis & Solution Design: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, define clear objectives, and develop technical plans. Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities where software can provide valuable insights and solutions.
• Performance Assessment: Develop metrics that reflect the needs of the business for their stakeholder cases, partner in the analysis of experiment results, interpret findings, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Industry Awareness: Stay updated with the latest advancements in software development, technologies, and methodologies.
• Product Development Leadership: Lead product development and launches by working with multiple stakeholders to define product requirements, prioritize features, and manage timelines.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor product performance and user feedback to ensure product success.
• Stakeholder Engagement Plan: Develop and execute a formal plan to regularly engage with stakeholders to ensure all product needs are captured.
• Requirement Documentation: Ensure that requirements slated for development are internally consistent, well-described, and granular enough to be implemented by developers.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate with the development team by involving them in the development of the product vision, sharing credit for success, thinking through nuances before presenting requirements, and creating schedules through consensus.
• Culture Contribution: Contribute to a culture of excellence, open communication, courage, and respect

Requirements

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in tech-centric roles within life sciences or a closely related field.
• Familiarity with AI and ML technologies and localization platforms, including TMS, CAT tools, LQA, MT, and integrations.
• Proven track record in leading and delivering tech projects with high precision and user-centric focus.
• Experience with clinical trial management systems or patient data handling is preferred.
• Familiarity with global regulatory requirements pertaining to clinical trials and document management will be valued.
• Strong practical knowledge of MS Office, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence).
• Background in cloud solutions, SaaS platforms, or enterprise software development.

Skills & Knowledge

• Executive Interaction: Demonstrated ability to work with senior executives, stakeholders, and users to define and manage scope, strategy, and requirements.
• Quantitative Skills: Strong ability to seek out, understand, and dive into data, research, and others' thoughts to support data-driven decision-making.
• Communication Skills: A well-rounded communicator, collaborator, and presenter who loves to share findings and insights. Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)
• Methodology Understanding: Understanding of Lean and Agile methodologies.
• Attention to Detail: Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines, and reporting.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Autonomy & Teamwork: Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
• Presentation Skills: Ability to build clear and concise presentations and communicate effectively at every level of the organization.
• Product Execution: Demonstrated specialization, execution, and delivery of software products.
• Project Management Skills: Demonstrated project management skills, including effective planning, organizing, and administration of multi-functional work responsibilities.
• Facilitation Skills: Demonstrated ability to facilitate cross-functional planning sessions (e.g., Scrum and Squad in Agile).
• Team Inspiration: Demonstrated ability to effectively partner across, collaborate with, and inspire teams and individuals, including remote employees.
• Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate and resolve complex and sensitive issues with diplomacy and persuasiveness.