[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Careers Signant Health

Role Description

As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead the full product lifecycle for your product or product line, from discovery through delivery, including product strategy, roadmap, metrics, customer experience, and execution. You will help define strategic product plans in collaboration with leadership and the rest of product management, build roadmaps in conjunction with R&D, and support all activities related to the timely execution and delivery of your products. You will drive the plan and design of products and services to ensure they are competitive in the market, play a key role in go-to-market activities, including pricing, and be responsible for successful product performance.

This role combines data with sensors and wearables to support our data scientists and the team’s key initiatives, including the productization of Pure Signal Analytics. The Product Manager operates under the general supervision of the Director, Product Management, with wide latitude for independent judgment.

This is a US-based position, with flexibility on location and working hours. Occasional customer-facing and conference travel is expected (approximately 10–15%).

Key Responsibilities

• Data story: Bring the data story to life through the “4 S’s”: Show (dashboards and reports in Insights Portal), Stream (letting customers take their data elsewhere), Search (asking questions of the data through the new AI launch), and Surface (clinical intelligence, including productizing Pure Signal Analytics).
• Sensors and wearables: Own sensors and wearables, including the framework for embedding any device and bringing its data back into our central repository, tied to the Pure Signal Analytics productization.
• Portfolio: Manage multiple products and timelines, working with both external customers and internal teams.
• Partnership: Partner across R&D, Sales, Marketing, and Operations and, critically, Science and Medical.
• Success: At 90 days, a solid grasp of the strategy behind our data journey. By six months, owning sensors and wearables as part of the Pure Signal Analytics productization.

Functional Accountabilities

• Strategy: Understand user needs, requirements, and market dynamics from a wide range of sources (customers, competitors, technology trends, market research and analysis, strategy, and internal and external stakeholders) and formalize business plans for target products. Initiate and drive product strategies in the product area and contribute to the company product portfolio plans.
• R&D: Collaborate closely with R&D leadership to map user needs to executable product features and releases. As per the applied product development process, create the necessary requirements specifications and/or epics, features, and use cases. Collaborate with R&D on planning releases/trains, as applicable. Steer and monitor R&D execution.
• Operations: Align product deliverables with Operations and ensure new product introduction is done for Operations, including facilitating the planning of new competencies, process changes, and other activities necessary to ensure successful product delivery.
• Product marketing: Initiate and drive value and marketing messages and go-to-market plans, in collaboration with Go-to-Market support if available. Work with Marketing to plan and execute marketing activities, e.g., value messages, marketing materials, and webinars.
• Sales: Operate closely with Sales and Corporate Development to develop pricing and sales positioning. Help position the product to lead accounts. Develop key sales training with Marketing to ensure sales readiness.
• Commercial success of products: Monitor product profitability and the competitive landscape. Generate product pricing.

Decision Making and Influence

• Influence on company product strategy, product plan, and roadmap for a given product area.
• Decision making on product positioning and features within agreed budget frames.
• Decision making on product roadmap together with the rest of the product management leadership.
• Decision making on key milestones in the product process (i.e., user experience and/or design of the product, product readiness to begin development, marketing/sales readiness).
• Leading the pilot or beta period for a product prior to GA (general availability).
• Influence on lead customer targeting and marketing positioning.
• Influence on commercial success of products, including revenue and profitability.
• Overall decision making and accountability as “a mini CEO for the product.”

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or business; an advanced degree is a plus.
• Experience with IRT (required).
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in product management or similar product design.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to summarize and present complex issues to a variety of audiences: technical, non-technical, and business leaders.
• Strong interpersonal, project planning, and implementation skills.
• Able to deal effectively with all levels of the organization and partner with executives and managers across all departments (R&D, Marketing, Sales, Finance, etc.).
• A team-oriented person with a “can do” attitude.
• Independence and self-motivation, with the ability to exercise autonomous judgment when dealing with competing priorities and initiatives, while keeping management well informed of issues, progress, and status.
• Able to seek and analyze information from a variety of sources.
• Ability to see the bigger picture while also getting into the details to support product managers and product owners.
• Demonstrated commercial awareness.

Benefits

• Collaborative, global environment.
• Opportunities to learn, take ownership, and drive meaningful innovation.
• Purpose-driven work with smart colleagues.
• Opportunity to help shape the future of clinical research and digital health.