The Senior Product Manager oversees a team of direct reports within the area of product ownership. Serves as a primary point of contact for external and internal customers across multiple departments/divisions, institutions, and employees. Performs other duties as assigned or directed to meet the goals and objectives of the organization and the department.

St. Jude is seeking a Senior Product Manager, preferably with a background in bioinformatics or life sciences, to lead the development and execution of product strategies for key scientific and data-sharing initiatives within the St. Jude Cloud project. This position plays a pivotal role in driving the success of multiple applications designed to facilitate large-scale pediatric cancer data sharing, research collaboration, and data visualization. As a product manager, you will partner with scientists, bioinformaticians, and engineers to deliver innovative tools and platforms that empower the scientific community. Your work will directly contribute to advancing pediatric cancer research through improved data accessibility and product usability.

Position Responsibilities:

• Bring product discovery techniques to bear to ensure we’re building the right products that solve real problems our users have.
• Perform regular user interviews for users coming from a variety of different backgrounds to learn more about our target audience.
• Develop a product roadmap and release schedule for applications within the St. Jude Cloud ecosystem.
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of product managers, product designers, software engineers, and scientists to ensure that features are built correctly.
• Design training modules, courses, or documentation related to St. Jude Cloud products.
• Willingness to learn other domains that are relevant to creating products in this space, particularly biology, bioinformatics, and software engineering.
• Remain current in and actively contribute to the evaluation and adoption of new techniques and methods within bioinformatics, software engineering, and product development.
• Serve as a resource for staff for questions about the product development discipline while continuing to actively grow in product development domain knowledge.
• Perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.

Special Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

Required:

• Ability to look at data more critically and draw meaningful conclusions.
• Quickly rebounds from setbacks, including creating viable plans to move forward.
• Help others understand the need for change and adapt to it.
• Effectively relays understanding of diverse perspectives.
• Can handle communication upwards and downwards as needed.
• Presents information in a clear, well thought out way and tailored to the audience.
• Shows support for the new direction even when the details have not been finalized.
• Spots early indications of underperformance and takes corrective actions. Celebrates successes.
• Works with partners inside his/her function to find the best solutions that align with functional priorities. Is easy to work with to find solutions.
• Acts as a liaison between teams (e.g. end-users, software developers, system designers) from different departments.
• Understands the product vision and supports that vision with detailed design and documentation.
• Seeks resources and ask questions to develop deeper understanding of concepts relevant to work area.
• Can occasionally use domain knowledge to assess quality of data/results at a coarse level.
• Adept at applying all technologies routinely used, while adhering to best practices
• Experience with product development and analytics tools 

Preferred:

• Some experience with coding or visualizations (e.g., R, Jupyter Notebooks, Plotly)
• Understanding of genomics, bioinformatics, or other related scientific fields
• Startup or small team experience with flexible roles
• Experience with product analytics tools

Minimum Education and/or Training:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, information science, business, or related field.
• Master's degree preferred.

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum Requirement: Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of experience required.
• Experience Exception: Master's degree with 1+ years of experience.
• Experience with programming languages, databases, and software development lifecycle.
• Experience with the position-specific technical stack preferred.
• Experience with the position-specific scientific domain preferred.
• Proven performance in earlier role/comparable role.

Compensation

In recognition of certain U.S. state and municipal pay transparency laws, St. Jude is including a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This is an estimate offered in good faith and a specific salary offer takes into account factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $86,320 - $154,960 per year for the role of Senior Product Manager.

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