Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sunthetics is a no-code platform for AI-guided experimentation that helps chemical R&D teams improve results and reduce experimental waste. The Senior Product Manager will own solution design, prioritization, roadmap development, and delivery while coordinating with customers, engineering, machine learning, commercial teams, and external development partners.
Responsibilities
- Develop an intimate understanding of our industry and our users, and represent them internally
- Gather input from customers, sales, support, and the market, and reconcile into clear product priorities that align with company objectives
- Prioritize feature requests against available resources; evaluate and/or escalate trade-offs as needed
- Take framed problems and customer needs and, in partnership with technical teams, design the solutions that meet them; serve as the internal voice of the user in design discussions
- Facilitate requirements gathering activity at both the business and technical level for internally planned features, custom client development and third-party development collaborations
- Own documentation of design, including capturing clear scope for our engineering teams to develop against and updating that scope as the build progresses and the design evolves
- Partner with the software and machine learning teams to align product development efforts with our team’s capacity
- Sequence work to balance near-term customer needs against longer-term platform investment
- Build, own and maintain the roadmap as capacity, feedback, and direction evolve
- Plan and coordinate releases that span both the software, design, and machine-learning teams, accounting for their different cadences and dependencies
- Run product delivery day to day: scope, sequencing, and cross-team coordination through to release
- Develop release notes, knowledge base material, and support our commercial teams’ communications with users about both the roadmap and new releases
- Develop processes in and around the Product function that scale with our business
- Oversee development delivered in partnership with third-party partners and vendors — scope, milestones, quality, and integration into our roadmap
- Manage co-development and research collaborations, including grant-funded work, translating partner and funder requirements into deliverables our teams and partners can execute against
- Serve as the product point of contact for external development partners, keeping their work aligned to our priorities, standards, and timelines
Skills
- 4+ years in product management at a B2B SaaS company with a track record of owning solution design and delivery
- Education background in chemistry or similar life science
- Experience building products for scientific, technical, or R&D audiences (pharma, chemistry, life sciences, or adjacent)
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams, ideally including a data-science or machine learning team
- Experience overseeing development delivered with third-party partners
- Strong prioritization judgment, and the ability to defend tradeoffs to customers, sales, and leadership
- Comfort gathering and translating requirements between business stakeholders and technical teams
- Self-directed, and comfortable owning a function without an established playbook
- Early-stage startup experience building rather than maintaining
- Familiarity with machine-learning product development and its distinct delivery rhythms
- Experience with grant-funded or academically partnered development
- Advanced degree in chemistry or a related life science
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