Title: Head of Product

Primary Skill: Product Management, Life Sciences

Secondary Skill: People Management

Seniority: Senior

Years: 8+

Emp Type: FTE

Location: Canada-wide Remote

Client position: 319

Description:

Our client is a rapidly-growing startup developing a genome sequencing and analytics platform to enable the next generation of genomics applications in medicine and agriculture. They are revenue-generating with customers across the world, including leading genomics companies like BGI, Sema4, and Neogen, and universities like Stanford and the Weizmann Institute. They are looking for an experienced Head of Product to drive product development.

As the Head of Product, you will build and lead a team of product managers, and partner closely with senior leaders across the company to support our product roadmap. Your team will own product reviews and craft creative technical and business solutions, always with an eye towards the end user.

Requirements
About you
* Bachelor's or Master’s degree, preferably in life sciences or engineering
* 8+ years of Product Management experience
* Systematic problem-solving approach and excellent organizational skills, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
* Extensive experience developing enterprise products and working with customers
* Experience in life sciences and genomics a plus
* Experience working at a startup a plus

Responsibilities
* Lead, build, and grow an effective product management team; help grow and develop people and advance careers
* Own the product roadmap across the different verticals in which our client operates (agriculture, R&D, and clinical genetics)
* Implement decision-making processes that appropriately balance value risk, usability risk, feasibility risk, and business viability risk
* Translate and articulate business problems into written documents with easily understood solutions and functional requirements
* Work cross-functionally with a distributed team across engineering, data science, design, customer success, marketing, and sales
* Define, analyze, and communicate product success metrics

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