Director, Product Manager, Applied AI Biomarker Development
US - Gaithersburg - MD
Full Time Executive-level / Director USD 169K - 254K
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business and our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.Join the Oncology Data Science – Data, Analytics, and AI Platforms (ODSP) team, a diverse group spread across Cambridge UK, Boston MA, Gaithersburg MD, Munich DE. Our mission is to advance Oncology grounded data science by crafting a strategic culture that values our data as a true business asset. We are looking for a new senior team member to act as a Product Manager around critical biomarker development initiatives to help us deliver better patient outcomes by pioneering digital solutions.
This Opportunity
Acting as a Product Manager, you will collaborate with internal customers to identify challenges and issues we will solve. You will build a compelling product vision and strategy to solve these sophisticated business problems and lead the product roadmap to ensure value delivery. You will work collaboratively across functions deliver products that have impact. Adopting data driven discipline, you will support near and long-term business strategy to build impactful solutions across the organization.
What you’ll do
Connect with internal customers and identify and formulate the problems we will solve.
Working with the customers and stakeholders creates a compelling product vision and strategy to solve complex business problems.
Own the product roadmap to ensure value delivery in MVPs.
Responsible for the entire product(s) lifecycle and working with engineers, scientists, and other stakeholders to ensure we deliver the right products.
You use data to drive decisions and business strategy with technical needs, escalating when necessary, without damaging connections.
You independently represent the products and the team and are comfortable communicating across organizations at various technical levels.
Actively collaborate with stakeholders to explore and solicit for innovative concepts and technologies that could be incorporated in our products.
Actively contribute to ODSP’s fun and innovative culture, bring your authentic self, take time for community, celebrate the diversity of thought and identity, take risks, and accept failures.
Contribute to the evangelism of ODSP’s prowess and accomplishments through targeted communications, celebration of achievements, conferences, and/or external communication.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Ph.D. in natural or engineering sciences
5+ years managing technical products or equivalent experience in AI/ML development.
Good understanding of ML/AI/DL techniques, preferable with hands-on experience
Record of accomplishment of innovation, developing strategic product ideas and plans, building technical proposals, and delivering visions for technical products.
Record of accomplishment in driving an AI based solution from idea to production.
Ability to manage trade-off decisions between business opportunities and available resources.
Experience in working with and developing junior colleagues
Highly collaborative with experience influencing and communicating cross-functionally with stakeholders
Energized by leading talented and diverse teams toward a common goal, often translating through communication gaps around highly technical information
Understanding of R&D, data science and AI, informatics, records management, and system development in the biotech/pharma industry
Experience in requirements engineering following lean and agile principles
Stakeholder communication and management
Experience in scrum
Desirable Skills/Experience:
8+ years in science-based technical product management
Experience with AI data preparation techniques in Bioinformatics, ML frameworks, and tooling
Experience in applying AI technologies to products (scientific and/or consumers) from idea to production.
Knowledge in (immune) oncology
Knowledge in drug development (processes)
Product development experience
Clinical, diagnostic, or translational science operations experience desirable
Experience with data and AI regulations in China is highly desirable
Experience in participating and or driving Innovation events (Hackathon like) driving to novel solutions.
Passion for learning new technologies
In Office Requirement
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world. This role will be aligned to our Gaithersburg MD office. We will not consider remote or alternative travel schedules.
Competitive remuneration and benefits apply
The annual base pay for this position ranges from $169,977 to $254,965 Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca's Oncology R&D business area, you'll be part of a team playing a critical role in driving meaningful change in the way we predict, prevent and treat patients' conditions. We're actively embracing and investing in technology, harnessing digital, data and analytics to reimagine the future of healthcare and deliver improved outcomes to patients beyond core medical. We're shaping the future, improving and speeding up portfolio development, improving the patient experience and outcomes at clinical trials. Join the team that is co-creating a digital ecosystem with patients at its core.
Date Posted
30-Sep-2024Closing Date
10-Oct-2024Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.Tags: Agile Bioinformatics Engineering Machine Learning MVP Pharma R R&D Scrum
Perks/benefits: Career development Competitive pay Conferences Equity / stock options Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Salary bonus Team events
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