Senior Director of Product Management, Transplant

Summary

Join Natera as a Director/Senior Director of Product Management to lead the on-market management and early research of transplant biomarker products and services. You will drive the evolution of next-generation products, collaborate with research teams on new product concepts, and provide product definition and strategic vision. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and leadership skills, strategic vision, scientific rigor, and a results-oriented approach. This role requires experience in product management, development, marketing, and strategy within the medical device or diagnostics industry. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans, as well as free testing and fertility care benefits for employees and their families.

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 7 years of product management with at least (10+) years overall experience with product management, product development, marketing and/or strategy
• Experience developing and commercializing diagnostics, medical devices, and/or medical software
• Prior experience developing and managing regulated products for clinical use and research use
• Experience developing software products based on genomic, bioinformatic, or clinical data sets
• Experience with all parts of the product lifecycle with emphasis on excellence in the concept and feasibility phases
• ���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

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
• Accountable for the broader post transplant product suite in collaboration with the current product team
• Develop relationships with key KOLs and provide 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
• Understand the competition and be able to articulate how our pipeline of products is differentiated and will win in the marketplace
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more
• We also offer a generous employee referral program!