Head of Product Computational CoE

The Opportunity

The Head of Product Computational CoE (Senior Product Leader) is accountable for the entire product lifecycle, from initial ideation and strategic planning through to launch, scaling, and eventual retirement of a complex product. This role is pivotal in transforming scientific and business needs into tangible, high-value technology solutions. You will be responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with the overarching goals of our organization and ultimately accelerates the delivery of life-changing diagnostics and medicines to patients. This role demands a distinctive combination of scientific inquisitiveness, technical proficiency, and business insight to successfully navigate the landscape.

Your primary objective is to lead engineering and service teams building desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet the evolving needs of our internal users while maintaining strict compliance with relevant industry standards.

Description of the area

Computational CoE: Provides the high-performance computing, advanced analytics, and software engineering backbone for our research community. This unit manages machine learning operations and delivers the underlying science infrastructure services. It also builds and supports shared scientific platforms and services, while providing a software engineering enablement service to promote best practices and accelerate the development of novel computational tools.

This position serves as a key strategic liaison and a primary communication channel between the dedicated business function p/gREDs and especially CS CoE and the RDT organization. It is critical in ensuring alignment of technology solutions with business needs, and responsible for co-creating and managing the technology strategy and portfolio to drive business outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategy & Vision
  Accountable for setting the direction for a complex product and ensuring that it achieves business outcomes and financial objectives. Monitor business, market, and technology trends to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions. Proactively integrate relevant AI capabilities into the product roadmap. Define, track, and communicate relevant KPIs for the product to measure its performance and contribution to business goals and strategy. 

• Customer-Centricity
  Establish a clear and aspirational vision for the end-to-end user experience across all touchpoints and product lines. Proactively identify emerging trends and market shifts to inform the long-term product roadmaps and maintain a competitive advantage. Define and track KPIs and use this data to inform product iterations.

• Product Lifecycle & Portfolio Mgmt.
  Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for a complex product or products in a portfolio and influence the long-term product strategies and roadmaps of related products. Identify new opportunities for innovation and growth. Identify and capitalize on emerging market trends and technologies to shape the future of the industry and to create new opportunities for the company.

• Stakeholder Collaboration
  Move beyond team collaboration to orchestrating a broader ecosystem of internal teams, external software vendors (SaaS), and academic partners through integrated platform strategies and robust API management. Influence a wider range of stakeholders, including senior leadership and key external partners.

• Team Leadership & Development
  Identify and lead initiatives to improve the product management team's processes, tools, and best practices. Coach other product managers and team members on effective stakeholder communication and collaboration techniques. Actively contribute to a strong product culture by advocating for customer-centricity, data-informed decision-making, and continuous learning.

• Performance & Optimization
  Focus on the long-term growth and strategic performance of a complex product or a significant area of the business. Connect product performance to broader business outcomes and guide the optimization strategy. 

• Financial & Resource Mgmt.
  Develop multi-year financial forecasts and strategic plans for the product area in collaboration with operation leads and other product managers. Strategically allocate resources across multiple product teams or initiatives to ensure alignment with the broader business objectives and maximize portfolio ROI.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology or a relevant technical/scientific discipline. An advanced degree (Master's/PhD) is preferred.

• 10+ years of experience in product management, business analysis, or a similar role, with a proven track record of launching and managing technology products.

• 2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry.

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role managing multidisciplinary technical teams.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of the product discovery and development lifecycle. Familiarity with GxP, FAIR data principles, and data privacy regulations (GDPR).

• Understanding of modern software architecture (e.g., microservices, APIs, cloud platforms). Familiarity with data science and AI/ML concepts is required.

Leadership skills

• Ability to translate high-level business and scientific goals into a concrete product vision and roadmap.

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to manage expectations and align diverse groups (scientists, engineers, executives) towards a common goal.

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of engineering managers and/or product managers.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $173,200 - $321,600. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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