Director Product Portfolio - Life Sciences
$136,100–$252,800 year
On-siteNew Jersey, United States or Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Lead the Life Sciences product portfolio strategy across regulatory intelligence, data, workflow, artifact generation, and submission capabilities. Translate long-range vision into a pragmatic 12–24 month roadmap tied to measurable customer and business outcomes. Drive portfolio rationalization to consolidate overlapping capabilities into a unified, scalable platform while introducing responsible AI and automation with strong explainability and auditability. Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Design, and senior business leaders to align tradeoffs, establish investment priorities, and define product operating rhythms. Work directly with customers to validate product-market fit and ground the roadmap in real-world regulatory workflows. Establish clear portfolio metrics around adoption, retention, and capability reuse within the first 12 months.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of product management experience
- significant time leading complex B2B software portfolios, platforms, or multi-product businesses
- Several years in a senior product leadership role
- ownership for portfolio strategy, roadmap, investment decisions, and cross-functional execution
- Strong experience in Life Sciences enterprise software or adjacent regulated domains
- Demonstrated success modernizing or consolidating fragmented products into more scalable platform-based offerings
- Strong product judgment in workflow-heavy, data-rich, enterprise environments
- Experience partnering deeply with engineering and architecture teams
- Ability to balance near-term business realities with long-term platform direction
- Strong commercial instinct
- experience partnering with go-to-market teams
- supporting enterprise deals
- building product cases tied to growth, retention, and margin
- Exceptional communication and executive presence
- ability to bring clarity to ambiguity
- align senior stakeholders around choices
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with global regulatory or labeling workflows
- health authority data
- regional submissions
- structured content
- artifact generation
- Knowledge of regulated software environments and controls
- including auditability, validation, and human-in-the-loop review
- Experience introducing AI/ML or intelligent automation into enterprise workflows
- in a governed and explainable way
- Experience in both software product environments and service-heavy operating models
- ability to help move organizations toward more scalable SaaS and platform motions
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