Iris's direct client, a leader in Healthcare services, looking to hire a strong Product Owner for a Long-Term Contractual role
Job title: Product Owner
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 18 Months
Skills: Product Owner, Clinical Trial Platform
Job Description: Product Manager – Clinical Trial Platform
Role Overview
· The Product Manager for the Clinical Trial Platform is responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for technology that supports end-to-end clinical trial execution.
· This role blends product management discipline with deep understanding of regulated clinical workflows, ensuring the platform delivers measurable value to sponsors, CROs, research sites, and patients.
· The PM drives feature development across study startup, patient identification, eligibility, randomization, visit scheduling, data capture, workflow orchestration, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
1. Product Vision & Strategy
· Define and articulate the product vision for a unified clinical trial platform supporting decentralized, hybrid, and site-based studies.
· Identify unmet needs across patient identification, trial matching, screening, site intake, randomization, scheduling, and data flows.
· Translate market trends, regulatory requirements, and customer insights into strategic product outcomes (efficiency, compliance, adoption, data quality).
· Conduct competitive analysis and monitor industry guidelines to ensure the platform remains compliant and differentiated.
2. Roadmap Ownership
· Build and maintain a clear, actionable roadmap balancing long-term platform evolution with short-term operational needs.
· Prioritize features using transparent decision frameworks that weigh user value, regulatory impact, technical feasibility, and business goals.
· Communicate roadmap updates to internal and external stakeholders.
3. Requirements & Delivery Leadership
· Own the product backlog, EPICs, and feature definitions with detailed acceptance criteria, user flows, and value statements.
· Develop user personas, user stories, workflows, and prototypes to support engineering and design teams.
· Partner with engineering, clinical SMEs, data teams, and QA to ensure delivery meets quality, compliance (including 21 CFR Part 11), and performance expectations.
· Support sprint planning, refinement, and release scoping.
4. Customer & Stakeholder Engagement
· Act as the voice of sponsors, CROs, investigators, research coordinators, and patients.
· Conduct discovery sessions at research sites and sponsor teams to understand workflow constraints and pain points.
· Gather and synthesize customer feedback to inform prioritization and continuous improvement.
· Collaborate with commercial, operations, data services, and regulatory teams to ensure alignment across product initiatives.
5. Product Launch, Adoption & Performance
· Coordinate release readiness across training, documentation, communications, and customer-facing teams.
· Define and track adoption, usage, and performance metrics to measure product success.
· Use platform analytics to identify opportunities for optimization and new capabilities.
Required Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, product management, or related field.
· 3–7 years of product management experience, ideally within clinical trials, healthcare technology, or regulated SaaS platforms.
· Strong understanding of clinical trial workflows (eligibility, screening, randomization, visit scheduling, data capture, protocol adherence).
· Experience translating complex workflows into clear product requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
· Experience working at a sponsor, CRO, research site, or clinical technology company.
· Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (Google Cloud Platform, 21 CFR Part 11, GDPR, HIPAA).
· Experience with AI-enabled product capabilities or advanced analytics in clinical research.
· Prior involvement in decentralized or hybrid clinical trial technologies.