Director, Product Line Technical Lead, Experimental Design and Execution

Job Description

Position Description:

Director, Product Line Technical Lead, Experimental Design and Execution

We are seeking an energetic and collaborative person to join the Research and Development Sciences value team responsible for enabling data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists’ ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health.

As the Technical Leader of the Experiment Design and Execution (EDE) Product Line you will develop and evolve a vision for the suite of products that enable the workflows of scientific experimentation and direct a cross functional team to the successful realization of that vision, solving challenging business problems by bringing together technologies, capabilities, and talent to create products that deliver insight, efficiency, and fantastic user experience. You will help define the standard of excellence in product management in our organization and combine this with your knowledge of drug discovery and development to inspire the cross-functional product organization to deliver value to our scientists.

You will be responsible for identifying opportunities that lead to the growth of our products through constant improvement and innovation while also ensuring consistent delivery and stable operation of products. You will use your knowledge of these products to promote their meaningful use by giving product demos, sharing user stories, and showing the connection of our data and technology products to our mission to serve patients.

Requirements:

• Single point of accountability for Experiment Design and Execution (EDE) Product line technology vision, roadmap, and delivery ensuring strong architectural alignment of products in the Product Line. Proactively seek to understand technology trends, vendor marketplace and upcoming business needs to guide product teams on providing forward looking technology solutions.

• Ensure strong architectural alignment of products in the Product Line with the overall outcomes and success metrics of the Research and Development Sciences value team through setting and managing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

• Evaluate and provide input into strategic plans for other Product Lines across the Research and Development Sciences value team, identifying opportunities for experiment Design and Execution platform products to accelerate value delivery by user-experience product teams through creation of reusable services and capabilities.

• Coach, guide, and manage a team of Technical Leads, engineers, architects across Product Line to own technology solutions from conception to retirement, aligned with key architectural design patterns

• Ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory safety, GMP and Validation requirements. Ensure all systems are designed, built, and operated to full SDLC requirements.

• Ensure products within the product are meeting/exceeding business enablement, life cycle management SLAs and adherence to policy compliance procedures with performance metrics in place to track actual relative to goals and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Become the key evangelist of EDE products and engage with experts within and outside of our company.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. in a scientific or technical discipline (such as computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, etc.). Pharmaceutical experience preferred but not mandatory.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years in technology product management or in IT leadership roles in complex matrix environments supporting scientific discipline such as biology, chemistry, or computational sciences

• Has managed technical product teams and architects. Proven experience in team building, mentoring, and leadership with a demonstrated ability to inspire others to follow a common vision. Ability to function in geographically distributed culturally diverse environment.

• Worked with lab management products and technologies such as notebook, lab information management, Sample Management, registration, archiving etc.

• Has experience with technical and/or solution architecture, driving better and purposeful decision making on capability and last mile solutions across the value team, experience and comfort making build-buy-assemble decisions as well as technology stack decisions.

• Awareness of relevant industry business, information and technology trends in lab systems. Demonstrated knowledge of business processes and industry/market trends within the biopharmaceutical scientific space.

• Strong communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions. Proven negotiation and guiding through influence skills, along with good problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrate strategic thinking skills and an eagerness to learn scientific processes, drug discovery and development processes, regulatory requirements as necessary to solve problems.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Five or more years in a Drug discovery environment is preferred.

• Worked with Product Management tools like Jira, Jira Align, Workboard and has worked in agile methodologies (scrum, Kanban etc.)

• Extensive hands-on experience with one or more Inventory & Sample Management solutions, Entity Registration Systems, Lab Information Management Systems, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Request Management and/or Resource Planning systems, Chemical Registration and other laboratory software systems is desired for this position.

• Worked with one or many of the following suite of products Titian, Brooks, Dotmatics, Scilligence, Biovia, Revvity, or Benchling software will be added advantage.

• Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

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Expected salary range:

$164,800.00 - $259,400.00

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

na

Requisition ID:R280331