Company Description
DNAnexus is a leading provider of secure, scalable, and intuitive biomedical data analysis software and bioinformatics applications for the life sciences and healthcare communities. The company actively manages and supports more than 80 petabytes of complex genomic, multi-omic, and clinical datasets on behalf of a growing network of collaborations with large-scale biobanks, as well as leading pharmaceutical, clinical diagnostic, academic research, and government organizations. Over 40,000 scientists across 48 countries are now using the highly collaborative, cloud-based, end-to-end platform to gain data-driven insights that can advance scientific discovery, accelerate precision medicine, and improve patient care.
Job Description
We are looking for a Product Operations Program Manager to support our Product organization at DNAnexus. This role requires a solid background and experience with the product development lifecycle (PDLC) from concept to post-launch/maintenance. The candidate should have a good understanding of a product manager’s role and responsibilities, and excels at building relationships within the Product team and in other organizations such as Engineering, Marketing, and Sales, and who has the ability to synthesize Product topics into executive messaging.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the end-to-end PDLC process from planning the product roadmap to tracking the go-to-market activities for new features and products
- Work closely with Product Managers, Product leadership and executive stakeholders to define, track, and report on schedules and milestones of the various product development tracks
- Identify and manage dependencies cross-functionally, track deliverables, anticipate and mitigate risks.
- Develop processes and procedures, chaperone process roll out and change management.
- Facilitate planning sessions and program check-ins as part of maintaining the health of the product development tracks
- Be the face of the Product roadmap internally, supporting cross-functional collaboration by maintaining visibility onto the product portfolio, and clarity on the methodology used to drive decisions and execute on plans
- Identify and implement data-driven processes to define and measure Product success
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, Technology Management, Life Sciences or related.
- 5 years of relevant experience including as a program or technical program manager, product manager / product owner, or product / operations / business analyst in the technology or biotechnology industry
- Customer-centric philosophy - passionate about building great products that delight our customers and solve important problems in science and healthcare
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, and Google suite or equivalent enterprise software is a must.
- Excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with a sharp attention to detail
- Ability to juggle simultaneous competing expectations, along tight deadlines while ensuring customers remain satisfied
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves, thrive in ambiguity, and help remove roadblocks
- Self motivated, proactive and autonomous with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities.
- Empathy - ability to listen to other perspectives, but decisive and persuasive in driving decisions and execution
Additional Information
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with over 220 team members across the United States and Europe, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and market adoption. With the support of leading investors including Google Ventures and Blackstone, and trusted by hundreds of the world's biomedical leaders, the company is at the innovative forefront with our precision health data cloud to drive scientific breakthroughs. If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today!
DNAnexus will provide the necessary support to enable the ideal candidate to work remotely within the Czech Republic.
What We Do
DNAnexus combines expertise in cloud computing and bioinformatics to create the global network for genomic medicine. DNAnexus provides security, scalability, and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health.
