Technical Product Manager

Certara•Radnor Township, PA

About The Position

Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries. Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry’s use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization. The Technical Product Manager (TPM) is responsible for defining and driving the vision, roadmap, and execution of Pulse, a set of shared integration services that enable secure, event-based communication and data exchange across Certara applications. Pulse is not an end-user product; it is a foundational technical capability that underpins cross-product workflows, file exchange, and system-to-system integration. This role requires strong technical fluency, systems-level thinking, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity while aligning engineering, architecture, security, and product stakeholders around a scalable and well-governed platform. A critical focus of this role is ensuring that Pulse enables secure, compliant, and wellgoverned file and data sharing across applications in alignment with Certara’s security and regulatory standards.

Requirements

5+ years in senior engineering, architecture, or technical leadership roles
Experience owning shared services or integration platforms
Strong technical fluency across APIs and event-driven systems
Experience defining security and access control requirements
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments

Nice To Haves

Experience with integration services, messaging systems, or data pipelines
Knowledge of enterprise identity models such as RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and AWS IAM
Experience in regulated or compliance-aware life sciences environments

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, scope, and roadmap for Pulse as a shared integration platform
Clearly define what Pulse is and is not, preventing ad hoc or point-to-point integrations
Balance near-term delivery with long-term scalability and platform health
Translate cross-application integration and data-sharing needs into clear requirements
Partner with engineering to define APIs, event contracts, and data exchange patterns
Own and prioritize the Pulse backlog based on enterprise-wide value
Define security, access control, and data governance requirements
Ensure support for identity-based authentication and authorization models
Translate compliance expectations into actionable product requirements
Serve as the primary product interface across engineering, architecture, and security teams
Drive alignment across teams with differing priorities and constraints
Help define governance models for shared integration services
Identify opportunities to expand Pulse adoption
Ensure long-term resilience, maintainability, and extensibility