Job Description

JOB SUMMARY                                                                                      

The Technical Product Manager (TPM) will be responsible for strategy, planning, and execution throughout the product lifecycle. They will lead a team whose responsibilities include stakeholder management, defining the product vision, and providing leadership to cross functional teams (product, engineering, operations) to deliver solutions. Additionally, the TPM will manage cross-functional projects and ensure efficient project execution by monitoring project performance, roadmap updates, and status communications and reporting on projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proactively manage feature lifecycles from strategic planning to product release and iteration.
• Work closely with other teams, Product Managers, and Designers to build concepts and requirements.
• Identify our customers' needs and opportunities through data analysis, interviews, and research through quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to define and manage a feature roadmap that will drive key metrics.
• Anticipate bottlenecks and dependencies, provide support for escalation management, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Function as the Product Owner for an Agile Scrum development team to define, deliver, build, and iterate on capabilities.
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• Lead the development of customer-focused product vision.
• Interact with key stakeholders to define the metrics, measurements, and tools to quantify business goals.
• Define and manage near-term and long-term product roadmaps, managing trade-offs and competing priorities.
• Develop the user experience, goals, stories and requirements that will be used to create product specifications.
• Communicate (both verbally and in writing) program successes, failures, lessons learned, and mitigations plans to stakeholders.
• Responsible for the full product lifecycle, from gathering requirements, prioritizing features, analyzing competitive landscape, writing plans and specifications, achieving stakeholder alignment, and owning the team roadmap.
• Define how we will measure the success and effectiveness of products and track quality.
• Define our vision by understanding our customers' needs. Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders for continued improvements and identify patterns of need.
• Get commitments from internal and external customers and achieve roadmap alignment.
• Collaborate closely with other technical leaders and across disciplines to drive standard methodologies and positive team culture.
• Continuously review and refine solutions produced by Engineering and Operations to best fit evolving business needs.
• Develop metrics and analytics to evaluate the success of products or new features of our products.
• Continually prioritize work by communicating critical milestones deconstructing features into discrete tasks and focusing on results.
• Participate in ongoing internal business analysis to understand landscape, positioning, and feature set, as needed.
• Communicate and influence with or without authority, facilitate groups with diverse perspectives, bring teams to alignment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong software product management experience.
• Strong technical background with a passion for breaking down challenging problems and driving value.
• Progressive thinking paired with strong execution.
• Comfortable with various data sets and web technologies.
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products/features.
• Ability to build wireframes, product specifications, and white papers.
• Strong project management skills and ability to present work to executive staff.
• Experience with growing a product using lean, data driven principles.
• Some familiarity with source control, operating systems (basic Linux commands, etc.), data analytics, and SQL experience preferred.
• Outstanding written/oral, organizational, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
• Must be a self-starter, a team player and driven.
• Previous start-up and/or consulting experience is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with Compliance / Regulatory requirements a plus.
• Proficient in MS-Office, Visio, Work Breakdown tools and software (MS Project & Azure DevOps a plus).
• Experience in the practical implementation of regulatory requirements for medical device development such as FDA’s Design Controls, ISO’s Risk Management, and Medical Device standards, ISO Software Development standards, CLIA.
• Ability to work on a virtual team.
• Experienced in Agile and Scaled Agile methodology.
• Experience with leading product development system projects having multiple components such as software, hardware, assay, human factors, highly desired.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
• Requires at least 2+ years of technical product management experience in the IVD or medical device industry.

Company Description

BeanStock Ventures is a virtual, project-based software development and regulatory compliance company. We are focused on improving lives by directly and indirectly supporting the development and delivery of innovative healthcare related products and services. BeanStock Ventures provides 20 years of regulatory and software development experience in various healthcare specific domains including but not limited to NGS, diagnostics, the point of care, critical care, laboratory, automation, workflows, and connectivity.