Certara - Radnor, PA
posted 3 days ago
About the position
As a Sr. Director of Product 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, and guiding product lifecycle from ideation to development to go-to-market to scaled product-market-fit. This role requires skillsets, experience, and competencies in execution & delivery, research & strategy, and organization & people development. This role creates impact at the level of a portfolio (product line), drives work for 5-15 people (including other people managers), and sets goals in terms of outcomes and KPIs at the portfolio level.
Responsibilities
- Cross-team Collaboration: Manages known opportunities, including conformance with business models and strategic partnerships.
- Judgement & Decision Making: Operates smartly within constraints & architecture (e.g., data model, tech stack), better-than-expected impact.
- Responsibility for Outcomes: Uses instincts, novel data, and industry sense to enforce a high quality, wholistic product experience.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Unblocks unforeseen obstacles to guarantee successful (biannual) releases, with responsibility to prevent collision risk from multiple teams working in parallel.
- Data & Market Analysis: Places 'bets' on new products, with direct influence over ROI and Profit/Loss.
- Thought Leadership: Enables sales via complete packaging & pricing guidance, with duties that extend to product launch plans.
- People Management: For their direct reports, mentors them to reach higher levels of performance and increases self- and other- awareness, with ability to negotiate compensation expectations.
- Organizational Leadership: For the Product organization itself, solves root causes to unlock team growth and applies these as best practices to other teams.
- Vision: Creates vision, and pivots as needed.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Intimate familiarity with a specific scientific domain, such as biosimulation, PK/PD modelling, clinical trial data standardization and analysis.
- Ability to work in a remote position requiring constant spoken and written communication; skill in exerting influence 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).
