Senior Product Manager

Title: Senior Product Manager

Location: Remote

Job Description:

Background

Accumulus Synergy is a nonprofit trade association working on behalf of industry to address the global need for digital transformation. To help solve for this need, Accumulus is developing a transformative data exchange platform to enable enhanced collaboration and efficiency between life sciences organizations and National Regulatory Authorities worldwide. The Accumulus Platform aims to improve efficiencies in the regulatory process by leveraging advanced technology, including data science and AI, as well as tools for secure data exchange to improve patient safety, help reduce the cost of innovation, and ultimately bring patients safe and effective medicines faster. Accumulus is working with key stakeholders in the life sciences – regulatory ecosystem to build and sustain a platform that aims to meet regulatory, cybersecurity, and privacy requirements spanning clinical, safety, chemistry and manufacturing, and regulatory exchanges and submissions. Accumulus Synergy sponsors include Amgen, Astellas, AstraZeneca, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, and Takeda.

Job Description

The Senior Product Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Accumulus and our platform by leading the development and execution of foundational product initiatives in our roadmap. You will collaborate closely with subject matter experts within Accumulus, from our sponsors, and representatives across the global health authorities to better develop and communicate requirements in an agile development process. You’ll work across the product lifecycle from identifying market opportunities to understanding users to executing plans for meeting roadmap objectives and effectively communicating product value. You should enjoy working at a fast pace with experts across disciplines to deliver software tools supporting new review and sharing processes between health authorities and life sciences organizations. This role requires a deep understanding of complex software solutions, strong leadership skills, and a passion for driving product excellence.

Responsibilities

• • Own the generation, curation, and delivery of the product backlog for multiple foundational platform capabilities. Develop and maintain a specialized understanding of regulatory engagements and features Accumulus can deliver to support and enrich them.

• • Prioritize features and enhancements based on business objectives, user needs and market demand, continually assessing and adjusting execution plans in response to evolving market dynamics.

• • Work closely with SMEs and stakeholders to gather and prioritize requirements, ensuring that product features are well-defined, achievable and in alignment with user expectations and compliance. Translate business requirements into actionable plans, epics and user stories with accompanying artifacts, which you’ve created.

• • Collaborate with Product Designers on low-fi designs and workflows that facilitate requirement iterations with stakeholders and users, and high-fi designs for development.

• • Work within agile development teams in a Product Owner capacity, helping to prioritize and clarify details regarding the product backlog sprint over sprint. Identify cross-team dependencies and facilitate necessary people and time tradeoffs to maximize the value of each release. Anticipate risks and provide risk mitigation options.

• • Work in partnership with business operations (program managers) to ensure successful and timely product delivery.

• • Stay informed about regulatory requirements and industry standards relevant to our target markets. Ensure that our platform meets all necessary compliance standards and certifications, working closely with legal, regulatory, security and quality teams.

• • Ensure the successful resolution of product issues identified by field organizations both during development and post-production.

• • Articulate the value of new features and the future direction of the platform to customers and partners.

• • Evangelize products and become the subject matter expert for internal audiences, external customers/potential customers, and market-facing communications

• • Focus the company on future growth areas that drive business value and deliver a strong return based on corporate goals and initiatives.

• • Collaborate with product marketing, customer success, sales and operations to develop effective go to market plans and appropriate training and processes for feature launches and feature scalability

• • Develop a deep understanding of the market and identify areas to drive further digital transformation through unique value propositions that position the Accumulus platform as the leader and driver of innovation.

Qualifications

• • Excellent communication skills; written, verbal and formal presentation

• • Willingness to travel, once or twice per quarter

• • Bachelor’s degree

• • Proven track record as a product leader in enterprise software
    • • 7 years or more of experience within the product management function.
    • • 5 years or more of experience managing enterprise platforms and supporting software.
    • • 5 years or more of experience working in agile development processes

• • Extensive experience with one or more of the following
    • • Enterprise SaaS solutions
    • • Content management software
    • • Project management software
    • • Life Sciences or other Regulated Software

• Nice to Haves
  • • Technical degree or hands-on development experience
  • • Prior experience managing collaboration software systems
  • • Experience delivering self-service analytics environments

Benefits

While we hope the Accumulus mission is what really attracts you, we also have a lot to offer. Organizations are built by great people, and to attract great people you need to offer a great employee experience. Accumulus can provide:

• • Very competitive compensation w/ bonus plan. We must compete with big names in tech & pharma for top talent and compensate accordingly.

• • 401(k) matching, immediately vested

• • A full benefits package: multiple health plans, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance

• • 100% remote work. Accumulus is a fully remote organization, and we intend to remain so

• • Experienced leadership to mentor you. We have drawn successful leaders from the biopharma industry with a deep understanding of regulatory affairs and combined them with similarly successful leaders in SaaS product development. Learning opportunities abound.

Unsolicited Contact Policy

Please note that we do not consider resumes submitted by unsolicited third-party recruitment firms. Additionally, we kindly request that candidates refrain from sending unsolicited resumes or making unsolicited phone calls directly to Accumulus employees. To be considered for any open positions, please utilize our online job application system. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.