Associate Director, Product Management

Summary

Join QuartzBio, a SaaS solutions provider in life sciences, as an Associate Director of Product Management. Lead product management for sample inventory operations and biomarker data analytics, driving product vision and strategy. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, build integrated roadmaps, and manage product development across multiple teams. This leadership role requires extensive experience in bioinformatics, clinical operations, and SaaS product management. You will build and lead a high-performing team of business analysts, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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