BenchSci is hiring a
Director of Technical Product Management in Canada

Summary

BenchSci is seeking a Director of Technical Product Management to lead its Technical Product Management team, develop strategy and roadmap for internal data components, establish a world-class technical product management craft, recruit and retain top talent, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The candidate must have 6+ years of product management experience, 3+ years leading teams, and an educational background or workplace experience in the life sciences.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product management experience on underlying technical/data infrastructure for an enterprise SaaS product
• 3+ years leading and growing high-performing teams
• Successfully developed and delivered innovative new products to the market
• An educational background or workplace experience in the life sciences
• Solid familiarity with data pipelines and working with modern data infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes, data processing engines such as Spark or Beam, massively scalable databases such as Redshift or BigQuery)
• Collaborated with senior executives to align business and product strategy
• A track record of success in growth-stage organizations
• Strong executive presence, and coming from a place of understanding before implementing change
• Experience leading products that leverage large, complex datasets

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of 5+ technical product managers to its full potential
• Lead a comprehensive strategy and roadmap for internal data components, including the structured extracted information (system of record), ML, and data pipelines that ladder up to the company strategy
• Establish a world-class technical product management craft within BenchSci
• Recruit, nurture, and retain top product talent
• Be accountable for data product portfolio performance, including the execution of BenchSci’s ambitious 12-month roadmap
• Partner with leaders across the Platform Stream including the SVP of Product and Science, SVP of Technology, VP of Science, and VP of Engineering/ML, as well as other representatives from science, bioinformatics, data engineering, and machine learning experts, and product management peers to promote complex releases enabled by internal data components
• Champion the product vision and regularly communicate the impact of our work
• Work closely with Commercial Product Management to provide an end-to-end vision
• Define clear success measures for your team, and communicate their importance within the company
• Work with Platform Operations to establish operational excellence to maximize team efficiency and effectiveness
• Apply AI/ML to address novel challenges in experiment design and drug development
• Collaborate with leadership in Engineering, R&D, Science, Sales, and Marketing to align teams around and deliver product outcomes

Benefits

• An engaging remote-first culture
• A great compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options
• A robust vacation policy plus an additional vacation day every year
• Company closures for 14 more days throughout the year
• Flex time for sick days, personal days, and religious holidays
• Comprehensive health and dental benefits
• An annual learning & development budget
• A one-time home office set-up budget to use upon joining BenchSci
• An annual lifestyle spending account allowance
• Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options
• The ability to save for your retirement coupled with a company match!