Job Description
Primary Responsibilities
·Define and drive the long-term product vision, strategy, design and roadmap, aligning with business goals and user needs
·Define and monitor Product Success metrics and criteria at incremental product development phases, and product adoption
·Analyze customer feedback, query logs, and market trends to identify opportunities for product innovation and enhancement, delivering high impact solutions
·Translate business requirements into technical solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of products
·Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering, marketing, and sales teams to align on product goals and roadmap planning for automation/improvements as per business needs
·Effectively communicate the strategy, progress, and updates to senior leadership, partners, key stakeholder, ensuring alignment and transparency
·Lead creation of comprehensive playbook and training material to standardize and share SOPs with product development and other analytics teams
·Lead creation of benchmark techniques being deployed across multiple product development strategies
·Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members
Qualifications
Education & Work Experience Requirements:
•Bachelor’s degree (in Engineering or related field, such as Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Business, etc.) with at least 8+ years relevant experience
•Master’s degree (relevant field like Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research) with 6+ years work experience
•4+ Years of Product management or Software development experience
Skillset:
Candidates must have -
•Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a must. Experience with APIs, microservices, and DevOps practices is a plus
•Experience in Software Development and Engineering, and Analytics Delivery
•Expertise in developing scalable, secure, and modular product architectures
•Proficiency in designing & implementing data structure, pipeline & architecture
•Hands-on experience with product roadmaps, Agile methodologies and backlog management, ensuring iterative and incremental product improvements
•Strong Leadership, problem solving, critical thinking, and quantitative skills
•Story Boarding - Ability to effectively communicate proposals to key stakeholders
•Must have good understanding of end-to-end Pharma commercial landscape
•Understanding of analytics tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Dataiku etc.
Candidates are desired but not mandatory to have -
•Experience with data science principles, machine learning (supervised and unsupervised) and GenAI algorithms, test-control analysis, A/B testing, propensity score matching etc.
•Experience working with healthcare, financial, or enterprise SaaS products
•Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling and optimization with underlying concepts such as ad-stock, decay, interaction and halo effects etc.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
VISA Sponsorship:
Travel Requirements:
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable
Shift:
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Required Skills:
Business Intelligence (BI), Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Software Development, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model
Preferred Skills:
Job Posting End Date:
05/15/2025
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