Sr Product Owner, LIMS

Natera

About The Position

As part of the Software Product team, the Product Owners help achieve Natera's strategic imperatives through excellence in technology. They work on products that are critical to lab operations, R&D, process development, customer support, commercial operations, genetic counseling, reporting, bioinformatics, statistics, and more. To be successful in the role, product owners need to have a deep understanding of the end-to-end workflow and the technical details of the software systems to deliver our best in class personalized genetic tests. They use this knowledge to translate and document detailed use cases and software product requirements for one or more development teams. The Sr. Product Owner must be able to drive prioritization and critical decision-making on solutions. They also need to be able to effectively work with a wide range of stakeholders and with an engineering team. They must own the product roadmap and backlog of work with all technical requirements for those engineers to know what they need to build and test.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in software product management, ideally in the healthcare IT or biotech industry. Bonus points if the experience is in genetic testing
Experience in conceptualizing, defining and creating best in class software experiences
Experience with Agile software development, building solutions from start to finish
Experience working directly with engineering development and QA teams as part of software development process
Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, relationship-building, and analytical skills
Experience with implementing scalable and sophisticated business rule applications
Experience building enterprise software or business critical systems
Well developed systems thinking
BA/BS degree in relevant technical, scientific, or quantitative discipline or relevant experience
Customer research and survey skills – how to ask good questions, listen carefully, and synthesize information into clear customer and business needs.
Highly organized with ability to multitask.
Ability to collaborate and interact effectively with individuals, and influence individuals across functional areas and in team environments.
Demonstrated knowledge of products and markets, or ability to learn quickly.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to understand and describe technical complexities in a simplified way appropriate to different audiences
Be able to break down large projects into granular milestones and track progress.

Responsibilities

Immerse yourself in the tough problems we’re solving, and team with R&D, designers, engineers, product managers, and lab operations to develop elegant software solutions to solve those problems.
Develop the strategy and roadmap for your development teams.
Communicate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather inputs for your backlog and gain buy-in for a prioritized roadmap of deliverables from your team.
Transform business, market and clinical requirements into executable product requirements
Own and prioritize a feature backlog to align with the overall strategic roadmap.
Act as a subject matter expert on our software products and create a shared understanding among business and technical teams.
Produce deliverables that facilitate better understanding for feedback such as flow diagrams, data models, pros/cons, prototypes, wireframes and other illustrations.
Define what success looks like for your product area and measure it.
Incorporate a focus on quality into product design and work closely with development and software quality assurance teams on product and process improvements.
Solicit user feedback and funnel new requirements and product changes back into software development.
Evangelize your product work across the organization, drive integration and ensure desired positive impact is achieved. Have a sense of ownership for everything you engage in.

Benefits

Annual performance incentive bonus
Long-term equity awards
Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
401(k) with company match
Generous paid time off and company holidays
Additional wellness and work-life benefits
Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits.
Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more.
We also offer a generous employee referral program!