Staff, Product Development Lifecycle

N-Power Medicine•Redwood City, CA

1d•$192,165 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

N-Power Medicine is hiring a Senior Manager, Product Development Lifecycle, Release & Quality to join their team reporting to the Senior Director, Program Management. This individual will serve as the critical liaison between healthcare product management, operations, oncology data, and engineering - translating product requirements into engineering delivery, holding engineering accountable to the product roadmap, and ensuring that everything shipped meets the quality bar for a clinical-facing product. This role owns the health of the product development lifecycle: how requirements move into build, how releases are planned and validated, how experimentation (A/B testing) is designed and read out, and how quality is verified before anything reaches physicians, patients, or clinical operations teams. Success depends on the individual’s ability to work cross-functionally and hold engineering, product, and clinical operations partners accountable to committed deliverables without formal authority over them. This is a hybrid on-site role, Bay Area is preferred.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent work experience, with seniority commensurate with a senior manager-level role with sound judgment operating independently and representing the function to leadership
Significant experience managing the product development lifecycle within a software organization, including requirements definition, release management, and quality assurance
Strong knowledge of product management principles and methodologies (roadmapping, prioritization, requirements definition, stakeholder alignment)
Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and engineering processes, with the ability to read, review, and comment on pull requests
Hands-on experience designing and analyzing A/B tests, and executing QA test plans across applications and data pipelines
Proven success driving cross-functional initiatives and holding partners accountable without direct authority, with sound independent judgment
Strong analytical capabilities for risk analysis, metrics interpretation, and data-informed decision-making; expert in tools such as Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Smartsheets, and design collaboration tools
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to prioritize and multitask in a fast-paced environment; Generous, Curious and Humble
Seniority and experience commensurate with a senior manager-level role
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Nice To Haves

Background in healthcare and/or oncology product development
Understanding of healthcare interoperability and data standards (e.g., HL7v2, FHIR)
Understanding of applicable healthcare regulations and compliance considerations relevant to clinical software (e.g., HIPAA, GxP/software validation concepts)
Experience working directly with clinical research operations or oncology data teams

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary liaison between oncology product management, clinical research operations, analytics teams, and engineering - ensuring requirements are clearly understood, scoped, and correctly implemented; build credibility and bridge communication across disciplines
Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work by writing detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and specifications in partnership with product management
Help engineering prioritize and stay focused on the committed roadmap, and own end-to-end release management, including readiness reviews, release communications, and low-risk deployments
Manage day-to-day product operations with engineering, including sprint execution, backlog health, defect triage, and cross-team dependency management
Design, execute, and analyze A/B tests and QA scenarios across applications and the data pipeline, closing coverage gaps and driving resolution of critical defects
Provide feedback on application content, functionality, and user experience, staying fluent enough in engineering practice to review pull requests and discuss implementation trade-offs
Apply Agile and product management methodologies to guide planning and execution; identify risks and mitigation plans, and maintain documentation, status reporting, and quality/release metrics for leadership
Own end-to-end product lifecycle decisions, including sunsetting or deprecating products and features - conducting impact analysis, upholding contractual and regulatory requirements, and defining backward compatibility, archival, retention, and redundancy plans