ZS Associates

Senior Lead, Digital Products

ZS Associates$120K — $160K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree; Masters Degree preferred or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of experience in product management or similar functions
  • CRM experience is strongly preferred
  • Strong organisational, project management, and prioritization skills
  • Experience working in a client-facing, consulting environment
  • Familiarity with Lifesciences is preferred
  • Client-first mentality and collaborative spirit

Responsibilities

  • Apply product management principles to ensure client needs are met
  • Define and lead product vision and strategy based on client insights
  • Facilitate workshops to uncover requirements and opportunities
  • Document business requirements into product specifications and user stories
  • Create artifacts to support communication and alignment
  • Advocate for user-centric design to deliver value
  • Measure product impact and implement enhancements for ongoing value

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package for health, well-being, and financial future
  • Robust skills-building programs and career progression paths
  • Opportunities for internal mobility to support growth
  • Collaborative culture encouraging meaningful work and capability expansion
  • Flexible hybrid working model combining remote and on-site work opportunities
  • Travel opportunities enhancing client relationships and professional growth
Full Job Description
What'll do: Senior Lead in the Digital Product Management Expertise Center will...

ZS's Digital Products Team partners with clients across industries (LifeSciences, MedTech, Health Plans, Hospitality and more) to envision, create, and deliver impactful digital products and services. We take a full-stack approach to innovation, build and growth to create technology powered, evidence-based products that users love and adopt and drive transformative value for our clients and ZS. Our work spans a wide of digital solution archetypes including digital health products (e.g., patient companion apps, shared decision-making tools, clinical decision support), Software-as-a-medical device (SaMD) (e.g, digital therapeutics, connected devices), custom digital applications (e.g. enterprise platforms, analytics and reporting tools), AI products (e.g. chatbots and agents) and CRM products (configurations and custom applications atop CRM platforms).

Position Overview:

The Lead/Sr. Lead of Digital Products is a hands-on, functional leader within the ZS Digital Product's team. In this role, you will work closely with clients and cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize digital products and solutions that drive business outcomes. You will focus on understanding client needs, shaping product strategies, and delivering digital products - from discovery through execution and go-to-market. In addition, this is a leadership role contributing to building the Product Management function within the Product Management practice across these dimensions: mentoring and growing people, continuous improvement of our Product Management methods and tool kit, client thought leadership, client business development (proposals, RFPs), etc. We are looking for candidates that are boundary spanner and critical thinkers and will be key players across all phases of the product lifecycle.

What you'll do:
  • Apply product management principles and best practices to ensure we build the "right thing" on behalf of our clients
  • Define and lead the product vision and strategy based on a deep understanding of client, their business goals and use cases
  • Facilitate discovery and innovation workshops to uncover requirements and opportunities
  • Gather and document business requirements, translating them into clear product specifications and user stories.
  • Create and manage artifacts such as business processes, user flows, data flow diagrams, and presentations to support clear communication and alignment
  • Act as the primary advocate for the client and end-users, driving user-centric design and ensuring solutions deliver measurable value and outcomes
  • Instrument analytics and measure product impact across business, user and operational KPIs, identifying areas for improvement and implementing enhancements to ensure ongoing value
  • Stay updated on technology trends and industry best practices to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage
  • Provide regular updates and training to stakeholders and users, supporting effective adoption and use of product/solutions


What you'll bring:
  • Bachelor's Degree. Masters Degree highly desired or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of experience in product management or similar functions
  • CRM experience is strongly preferred
  • High energy level, with strong facilitation, verbal & written communication skills
  • Strong organization, project management and prioritization skills
  • Experience leading workshop style meetings to for early discovery and requirements
  • Experience working in a client facing, consulting environment
  • Experience working in/with Lifesciences preferred
  • Ability to travel as needed
  • Fluency in English
  • Client-first mentality
  • Intense work ethic
  • Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach

How you'll grow:
  • Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways
  • Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities
  • Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions


Perks & Benefits:

At ZS, your growth matters. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well-being, financial future, time away, and professional development. With robust skills-building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture, you'll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, expand your capabilities, and thrive as part of a global community. For details on total rewards in United States, visit ZS US office locations | Where we work | ZS.

Hybrid working model:

We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.

Travel:

Travel is a requirement at ZS for client facing ZSers; business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.

About ZS Associates

ZS is a professional services firm that works side by side with companies to help develop and deliver products that drive customer value and company results. From R&D to portfolio strategy, customer insights, marketing and sales strategy, operations and technology, we leverage our deep industry expertise and leading-edge analytics to create solutions that work in the real world. Our most valuable asset is our people?a fact that?s reflected in our values-driven organization in which new perspectives are integral and new ideas are celebrated. ZSers are passionately committed to helping companies and their customers thrive in industries ranging from healthcare and life sciences, to high-tech, financial services, travel and transportation, and beyond.
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10,000 employees
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Founded
1983

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