Head of Product

About our client

Our client is on the cutting edge of the biotechnology revolution. Based in London, UK, they have a diverse team spanning Europe and North America, with each person empowered and involved in every aspect of the business.
Here’s your chance to lead, to design, to own. To create.

Their team is looking for a head of product to join their team. If you’re committed and passionate about open source, bioinformatics, big data, Machine Learning, and AI, we want to hear from you today.

Position overview

In this role, as a Head of Product, you will own the strategy and delivery of our products that leverage our unique federated technology. You will lead a team of talented and motivated Product Managers in delivering game-changing solutions that help our clients understand complex diseases and develop new and effective treatments using a data-driven approach.

Core responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to define, design, and bring to market new and innovative products that help our clients accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs of our clients and users and conduct market research and competitive analysis to inform product strategy
• Develop and maintain the product strategy and roadmap, align with stakeholders (e.g. Sales, Customer Success, Engineering, Marketing), prioritize features, build consensus, and coordinate product schedules with the wider business
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch
• Drive adoption of products
• Manage, coach and hire a team of Product Managers
• Foster a culture of testing, data-driven decision-making, and accountability for metrics and results
• Work closely with our leadership team to shape business and product strategy
• Experience with financial metrics, revenue models and pricing strategies
• Product performance KPIs and OKRs and Product P&L

Required experience

• 5+ years of senior experience in product management, with a track record of delivering multiple successful products to market
• Strong understanding of data-driven product development and design thinking
  methodologies and Product lifecycle management
• Repeatedly demonstrated problem-solving abilities and evidence of using analytical skills to determine future actions and assess past decisions
• Experience in communicating and engaging senior commercial stakeholders as part of a product development process
• Experience operating within Agile and waterfall environments
• Evidence of the creation of commercial business cases and using this to help prioritise product development decisions
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the business and with external teams
• Experience in influencing stakeholders to deliver quality product development whilst
  meeting tight deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to work on own initiative with minimal supervision to deliver
  high-quality work in a timely manner
• Experience working in a B2B environment and working with account teams and end customers

Desired experience

• Experience in the life sciences or pharmaceutical industry, particularly in drug discovery or R&D
• Understanding of machine learning, data science, and AI technologies and their applications in drug discovery
• Scrum or Agile certification

Required skills

• Strong communicator
• Must be able to drive teams to deliver targets
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality
• Confident and able to speak up against and defend opinions with strong reasoning, analysis and evidence
• Passionate about improving both what their team does and how they do it
• High levels of attention to detail are required as the role is accountable for end results and must get the small things right
• Able to think on the go and adapt quickly to changing demands
• Will be required to develop and coach the team and, therefore must be able to work with junior team members to set development plans and monitor progress

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