Principal Product Manager

**Description**:
**About us**

We are Digital Science and we are advancing the research ecosystem.

We are a pioneering technology company, and our vision is of a future where a trusted and collaborative research ecosystem drives progress for all. We believe in better, open, collaborative and inclusive research. In creating the next generation of tools and working in partnership with the community we tackle some of the biggest challenges to research. In order to achieve our vision, we need innovative, inspiring and dynamic people to join our team. Want to join us?

**Your new role**

The Principal Product Manager, Pharma R&D, is responsible for leading the product management activities for Pharma R&D use cases, one of our main Digital Science strategic directions. You will work in close collaboration with other members of our product development team (including developers, QA & UX) in order to shape, design, prioritise, and launch a high-quality product, to solve real business problems for our clients and users. The Principal Product Manager, Pharma R&D will also work closely with our client community to ensure client needs are embedded at the heart of our development processes.

The Principal Product Manager, Pharma R&D will be working on the scope, prioritization and launch of a new solution to help Pharma R&D teams solve drug target pipeline prioritization problems, including biomarker identification and drug repurposing. At the same time, this role will also define the direction for existing products that already support such use cases.

This role will report to the Product Director Enterprise. The Enterprise market segment team is focused on the development and improvement of product market fit for Life sciences, High tech and Industrial customers. The Principal Product Manager, Pharma R&D will be directly leading the efforts on product market fit to our Life science customers. In this capacity, they will need to have working knowledge of all the Enterprise segment’s products, in order to facilitate cross-team collaboration where relevant.

**What you’ll be doing**:
**Strategy & Vision**
- Define and drive the long-term strategy, vision, and roadmap for your product area, ensuring alignment with revenue growth, customer satisfaction, and competitive advantage.
- Use data insights to identify opportunities for innovation and inform product strategy.
- Prioritize features and initiatives based on data, client feedback, and strategic value.
- Monitor product performance through analytics, metrics, and user feedback, making data-driven decisions.
- Stay aware of the competitive landscape to ensure products remain market-relevant.

**Product Management & Best Practices**
- Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation to launch and end-of-life, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality execution.
- Manage product ideation, requirements specification, and validation, producing high-quality artifacts such as PRDs, epics, and user stories.
- Facilitate collaboration across cross-functional product teams.
- Define and track KPIs to measure product success and regularly report to stakeholders.

**Customer-Centric Product Discovery**
- Work closely with UX, Customer Success, and Sales teams to gather feedback, identify pain points, and prioritize product improvements.
- Conduct site visits, online meetings, and other research activities to ensure products meet user needs.
- Ensure product quality and compliance throughout the development cycle, partnering with Engineering on feature delivery.
- Support adoption of software and services through compelling documentation, training, webinars, and other enablement initiatives.
- Assist the sales team in go-to-market activities, including RFP/Tender responses, product demos, client meetings, and events.

**What you’ll bring to the role**:
**Experience**:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in software product management, including product discovery and delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, and deliver solutions.
- Proven ability to foster cross-functional collaboration among teams with diverse areas of expertise and responsibility, leveraging product management tools and frameworks to drive alignment and deliver results.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including strong presentation and relationship management skills.
- Highly developed organisational skills and ability to work with a high level of autonomy.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt projects in response to changing requirements.
- A passion for staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies.

**Domain knowledge**:

- Experience in Life Science solutions, with preference on such for pharmaceutical companies
- Experience in Pharma R&D, drug lifecycle pipeline,
- Data processing, FAIR data, ontologies, knowledge graph technology
- B2B SaaS

**Optional skills**:

- Biostatisti