Senior Director of Product Management

Summary

Join Natera as a Director/Senior Director of Product Management to spearhead the discovery and development of innovative oncology products and services. You will leverage your deep market understanding and collaborate with the Research team to conceptualize, evaluate, and prioritize new products. Responsibilities include crafting business plans, conducting market research, and leading cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, strategic vision, and technical expertise in cancer diagnostics. This role involves maturing new products through research and proof-of-concept, and collaborating with the broader Product team for product development and launch. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Strong leader, with proven ability to transform innovative ideas into impactful products
• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in a physical or life science, statistics or engineering discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of product management with at least (10+) years overall experience with product management, product development, marketing and/or strategy
• Experience developing and commercializing cancer diagnostics, medical devices, and/or medical software
• Experience with all parts of the product lifecycle with emphasis on excellence in the concept and feasibility phases
• Prior experience developing and managing regulated products for clinical use and research use

Responsibilities

• Gather appropriate internal and external data to define the unmet customer need, craft product concepts and propose target product profiles
• Coordinate, influence, and collaborate with a cross-functional team, including Molecular Biology R&D, Data Science R&D, Medical, Business Development and Marketing to ideate and evaluate new product concepts
• Conduct VOC interviews, market research, and competitive analysis as a means to test and prioritize product concepts and features
• Lead the team in building long-term business plans, with unit economics, ROI, and NPV outputs, to assess the value of new products and ventures
• Evaluate model sensitivities and gather appropriate data to pressure-test these key assumptions
• Make investment and prioritization recommendations on the basis of rigorous business analysis and good market research
• Understand the competition and be able to articulate how our pipeline of products is differentiated and will win in the marketplace
• Form and lead cross-functional research teams as required to drive new projects
• Excel in the concept phase of product development: provide thought leadership and critical analytical thinking on new product/business ideas to test the viability of target product profiles (TPPs)
• Evaluate, prioritize, and communicate the roadmap for new pipeline products and timelines through the company
• Establish and lead due diligence process for evaluation of outsourced products or products for acquisition

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD or MBA preferred
• Preferred: experience developing software products based on genomic, bioinformatic, or clinical data sets
• ���Hands-on”, likes to dive deep and solve problems, detail-oriented
• Energy, enthusiasm, and sense of urgency
• Risk taker, entrepreneurial and competitive in nature
• Self-starter, capability to identify and resolve problems independently

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
• 401k benefits
• Commuter benefits
• A generous employee referral program