Product Analyst

Overview:
As a **Product** **Analyst III** embedded in one of our Software divisions, you belong to the functional team whose work encompasses product strategy, product delivery, product management & product operations. You and your colleagues in Product Management specifically are charged with:
—Targeting R&D investments towards maximum value for customers and business ROI.

—Being accountable for decision-making, problem selection, and business outcomes.

—Guiding product lifecycle from ideation to development to go-to-market to scaled product-market-fit.

Under weekly oversight, you will drive substantial improvements of new and existing features—fully occupying 1-4 full-time engineers to deliver on involved projects. This role requires skillsets, experience, and competencies in:
—Execution & Delivery: Cross-team Collaboration, Judgement & Decision Making, Responsibility for Outcomes

—Research & Strategy: Stakeholder Engagement, Data & Market Analysis, Thought Leadership

**Responsibilities**:

- Execution & Delivery
- Cross-team Collaboration
- Navigates the software development process and reviews the work of engineers and test engineers against self-written success criteria
- Peer-reviews others' ideas, with reasonable sense of internal/external impacts/risks/constraints.
- Judgement & Decision Making
- Gathers requirements for user stories of meaningful value
- Documents client use cases, decisions, and business logic to allow full visibility for the team, keeping pace with evolving, complex, domain-specific requirements
- Translates leaders' product visions into actionable priorities
- Frames decisions with clear objectives and context, trading off passably among internal vs external stakeholder needs.
- Responsibility for Outcomes
- Involved in proposing resource investments and monitors the outcomes, including tracking of metrics such as near-term project budget and long-term user adoption.
- Research & Strategy
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Without prompting, interviews clients with deep counter-questioning and offers insightful conclusions.
- Data & Market Analysis
- Interprets existing data analytics from multiple sources, and references competitors' offerings, to measure impact of present R&D efforts.
- Thought Leadership
- Explains the product well when called upon to internal (e.g., sales) audiences and clients via more formal sessions
- Attends tradeshows to gather intel and is a co-author for at least one publication or presentation per year (company webinars, industry journals, 3rd party conferences, etc.)

Qualifications:

- Must Have
- Fastidious for facts, insistent on evidence
- and data-driven choices, able to separate signal from noise
- Systems-thinking and ability to predict or extrapolate to second, third, and fourth order effects (if A, then B, then C, then D )
- Adept at analytics, independent research, unscripted interviews, and other intel-gathering techniques
- Not afraid to speak up and veto a bad idea, or have your ideas vetoed (our default is “NO”) in favor of what our team decided to prioritize next
- Curious about our clients and products, cautious with our brand and industry goodwill, conscientious in follow-through
- Willing to learn and serve, flexible in adapting to rapid organizational change, receptive of constructive criticism
- High tolerance for ambiguity, low tolerance for mess; able to create order out of chaos, attend to details, and push quality higher
- Relentlessly resourceful and discerning in solving problems independently vs. seeking help from others; brave yet humble in working across multi-disciplinary teams where each person is more of an expert than you in their chosen field
- Preferred
- Intimate familiarity with a specific scientific domain, such as biosimulation, PK/PD modelling, clinical trial data standardization and analysis, etc.
- Ability to work in a remote position requiring constant spoken and written communication; skill in exerting influence (even on company founders, owners, and partners) without leverage or managerial authority
- Education or qualifications relating to business, programming, data science, health sciences, medical writing, customer support, project management, or corporate communications
- Experience working for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, clinical laboratory, pharmaceutical company, or Contract Research Organization (CRO)