What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at DNAnexus?
Company Description
DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company providing genomic data and analysis technology to the healthcare and life science industry. DNAnexus' health informatics platform serves customers across — biopharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, academic research, and government in 48 countries with compliant protection of data, privacy, and intellectual property. Our platform provides a secure and collaborative environment where genomics, multi-omics, and clinical data can be analyzed at scale, providing new insights that can lead to new scientific discoveries, targeted drug development, and better patient care. For more information on DNAnexus, please visit www.dnanexus.com or follow the company @DNAnexus.
Job Description
As a Product Manager in the DNAnexus organization, you will have the opportunity to be part of the Product team which defines and drives the product vision. You will work with the Engineering team to build and deliver world class products. You will operate as the product owner, coordinating all product activities from vision to implementation, including engaging customers to understand their needs, developing long-term product strategy, defining product roadmaps, working with engineering to build those products, and coordinating with various internal stakeholders (both pre- and post-launch) to ensure product success.
Responsibilities
- Author functional requirements that define solutions meeting the customer requirements.
- Work closely with UX and Engineering to drive those solutions through definition, development, testing, deployment, and customer validation in an agile environment
- Gather feedback from customers and input from field organizations
- Manage prioritization and trade-offs
- Contribute to the product strategy, roadmap, positioning, and pricing
- Drive product launches and releases including clearly communicating, training, and documenting product capabilities and features to support marketing, sales, and science teams
Qualifications
- BS/MS in a technical or scientific field
- 3 years of product Management experience in enterprise software, big data, and cloud technologies.
- Bioinformatics or computational biology experience working with biomedical data [clinical measures, imaging, multi-omics] is a strong preference
- Proven ability to launch successful product experiences that are used and desired by technical and non-technical users
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effortlessly communicate at the right level with both business stakeholders and engineers
- Experience consistently delivering in an agile environment as a product owner
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities in the face of ambiguity
- Good understanding of large-scale web-based software systems, API-driven web services, cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
- Understanding of HCI and good UX design principles
- Detail-oriented, with high standards of quality work
- Entrepreneurial “can do” attitude with the ability to rapidly learn and find creative, pragmatic solutions
Additional Information
Based in Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $100 million financing round to advance our growth globally to further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital.
If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today!
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.