Vice President, Product Management

Company: Iterative Scopes
Location: Somerville
Posted on: June 20, 2022

Job Description:

At Iterative Scopes, we are pioneering the application of powerful, proprietary artificial intelligence tools to the practice of gastroenterology and drug development. - We've set out to drastically improve clinical decision making while meaningfully improving patient lives through better diagnosis, disease management, and treatment, leading to better health outcomes.
Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, the VP of Product Management will be a member of the senior management team and will own the product vision, roadmap, and product leadership for the company. - As the product leader, you will drive the major product decisions for the product team and lead organizational change across people, process, and product. - Both strategically and operationally oriented, the VP of Product Management will have ownership over the day-to-day responsibilities for product management team. You will recruit, hire, and manage the product team through hyper growth and scale, and act as a driver of change, thought leadership and growth. Additionally, you will set a strategy and lead to execute and operationalize the vision, while instilling industry best practices into the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class product management team, providing strategy, execution, coaching, mentoring, and decision-making leadership throughout the organization, with a hyper-growth mindset
Use data to drive the product strategy in line with corporate strategy, enhancing the process with transparency around prioritization decisions
Prioritize execution and fast decision-making to identify and execute high impact wins quickly
Lead the organization through a strategic change and adoption of best-in-class product function that is data-driven with user-centric product research and design, emphasizing fast iteration and refinement in the development of new and improved products, features, and workflows
Implement speed and shorten the time to new feature and product releases in collaboration with Engineering, ensuring readiness for all product releases and pushing products to market faster
Partner closely with internal teams to connect the technical vision with the outbound GTM strategy, forming strong partnerships with cross-functional teams to collectively take ownership of delivering on business goals
Communicate key ideas and conclusions to drive consensus, raising uncomfortable issues to leadership in a thoughtful, respectful, articulate, and firm wayRequirements
Ideal Candidate Profile:
You have proven experience in healthcare B2B Product Management and Product leadership roles, building and leading Product teams to deliver new products and features in close collaboration with Engineering and other key stakeholders
You have knowledge and experience in the healthcare industry, especially in drug clinical development and the role of data, technology, and software in advancing medical research
You are a trusted leader who has helped to build successful VC-backed startups or other hyper-scaling companies
You are an outstanding communicator and can build a sphere of influence at all levels
You are agile when it comes to networking and investing the time to get to know all-comers
You dive head first into accepting diverse and challenging assignments with rigor, intellectual curiosity and tenacity, and you are hardworking, fearless, forward-thinking, credible, conscientious and creative
You bring the self-confidence and passion required to get things done in difficult times and find creative solutions to problems against all odds.
You identify operational gaps, plug the holes, and just make things work, with an eye for how to improve processes for future efficiency
You are a strong public speaker with the ability to serve as the company's evangelist
You'll be a cultural fit if you:
Iterate and adapt, with a focus on getting products into users hands quickly. You give and receive feedback uncomfortably early. You are a relentless learner who seeks to find better ways to do things. You are unfazed in a fast moving and fast changing environment.
Stay humble, with an ability to listen and demonstrate empathy for users and your colleagues. You make space and value different voices.
Act as an owner who keeps hustling and aims to think beyond and go beyond the status quo. You are highly accountable to outcomes and make things work; nothing is impossible. You are willing to do whatever it takes and thrive in a results-based and data-driven environment.
Are here for a purpose, working for something bigger than yourself. You are bold and take risks for the mission of the company.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree is required
12+ years of hands-on product management experience in a hyper-growth environment
Inspirational product leader, both in thought and in deed, exuding confidence, authority, and integrity.
Expert in fundamentals of product management; determine what should and should not go into the product based on repeatable robust processes defining a clear input/enhancement process, with transparency on prioritization decisions
Has led strategy for product, design, documentation, and outbound product management in line with overall business strategies with deliverables to measurable business outcomes
Proven success partnering across an organization for cross-functional business, technical, GTM, and sales-related activities around the company's product lines, driving solution pricing and packaging
Proven ability to create, manage, maintain, and communicate external and internal product roadmaps; advocating for what the market needs today and in the future
Has driven participation from customers and stakeholders in the product roadmap process; conducting competitive analysis and analyzing the value chain.
Outstanding leadership, management, and communication skills.
History of recruiting, mentoring, and developing a best-in-class, high functioning product team
Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced degree in science or healthcare-related disciplines
Executive experience within AI technology Product management, preferably in health tech or computer vision AI
Knowledge of gastroenterology, clinical research, clinical trials, and physician workflows
Proven ability to lead an organization through a significant change, change agent
Vision/Dental/Medical Insurance
Life/Disability Insurance
Maternity/Paternity leave
Stock Options
Flexible Work Hours
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Fun Workspace! (Standing Desks/ Balance Boards/Ping pong Table/ Pick your own workstation set-ups!)
Free Snacks and Drinks (Jura Espresso Maker + Snacks upon requests!)
Free lunch on Fridays

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