Sr. Director of Product

As a Sr. Director of Product embedded in one of our Software divisions, you belong to the functional team whose work encompasses product strategy, product delivery, product management & product operations. You and your colleagues in Product Management specifically are charged with:

-Targeting R&D investments towards maximum value for customers and business ROI.

-Being accountable for decision-making, problem selection, and business outcomes.

-Guiding product lifecycle from ideation to development to go-to-market to scaled product-market-fit.

This role requires skillsets, experience, and competencies in:

-Execution & Delivery: Cross-team Collaboration, Judgement & Decision Making, Responsibility for Outcomes

-Research & Strategy: Stakeholder Engagement, Data & Market Analysis, Thought Leadership -Organization & People Development: People Management, Organizational Leadership, Vision

This role creates impact at the level of a portfolio (product line), drives work for 5-15 people (including other people managers), and sets goals in terms of outcomes and KPIs at the portfolio level.

* Execution & Delivery

o Cross-team Collaboration: Manages known opportunities, including conformance with business models and strategic partnerships.

o Judgement & Decision Making: Operates smartly within constraints & architecture (e.g., data model, tech stack), better-than-expected impact.

o Responsibility for Outcomes: Uses instincts, novel data, and industry sense to enforce a high quality, wholistic product experience.

* Research & Strategy

o Stakeholder Engagement: Unblocks unforeseen obstacles to guarantee successful (biannual) releases, with responsibility to prevent collision risk from multiple teams working in parallel.

o Data & Market Analysis: Places "bets" on new products, with direct influence over ROI and Profit/Loss.

o Thought Leadership Enables sales via complete packaging & pricing guidance, with duties that extend to product launch plans.

* Organization & People Development

o People Management: For their direct reports, mentors them to reach higher levels of performance and increases self- and other- awareness, with ability to negotiate compensation expectations.

o Organizational Leadership: For the Product organization itself, solves root causes to unlock team growth and applies these as best practices to other teams.

o Vision: Creates vision, and pivots as needed.

Must Have

o Fastidious for facts, insistent on evidence- and data-driven choices, able to separate signal from noise

o Systems-thinking and ability to predict or extrapolate to second, third, and fourth order effects (if A, then B, then C, then D...)

o Adept at analytics, independent research, unscripted interviews, and other intel-gathering techniques

o Not afraid to speak up and veto a bad idea, or have your ideas vetoed (our default is "NO") in favor of what our team decided to prioritize next

o Curious about our clients and products, cautious with our brand and industry goodwill, conscientious in follow-through

o Willing to learn and serve, flexible in adapting to rapid organizational change, receptive of constructive criticism

o High tolerance for ambiguity, low tolerance for mess; able to create order out of chaos, attend to details, and push quality higher

o Relentlessly resourceful and discerning in solving problems independently vs. seeking help from others; brave yet humble in working across multi-disciplinary teams where each person is more of an expert than you in their chosen field

Preferred

o Intimate familiarity with a specific scientific domain, such as biosimulation, PK/PD modelling, clinical trial data standardization and analysis, etc.

o Ability to work in a remote position requiring constant spoken and written communication; skill in exerting

influence (even on company founders, owners, and partners) without leverage or managerial authority

o Education or qualifications relating to business, programming, data science, health sciences, medical writing, customer support, project management, or corporate communications

o Experience working for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, clinical laboratory, pharmaceutical company, or Contract Research Organization (CRO)