What is the type of contract for this position?

The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Product Manager - Histo-Genomics position?

The suggested salary for this position is $149,000 - $199,000*

Is telecommuting possible for this position?

No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Product Manager - job at Owkin

About us

In November, Owkin became a 'unicorn' - a startup worth more than $1 billion - through a $180 million investment from pharmaceutical company Sanofi. As a result, we are now looking for the brightest and best talent to help us to go even further in achieving our mission.

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About the role:

As a Product Manager, you will be in charge of the user research, functional specifications and prioritization of the Histo-Genomics platform product: a storage, visualization and annotation solution for histology and genomics data. Based on existing products and the team expertise, you will have to design and build this new product almost from scratch in the Owkin Data Platform team.

You will work embedded in a squad of software engineers and product designers focusing on the development of this Histo-genomics platform, and you will participate in the product team roadmapping and strategic work. The Histo-Genomics platform is at the core of Owkin strategy to build networks of medical datasets stored on hospital premises. The users you will be considering are data scientists and medical staff who need to manipulate and leverage histo-genomics data to make new therapeutic discoveries.

You’ll report to the VP Head of Product and will work in Owkin’s Product team with other product managers focusing on other areas of our products and with UX/UI designers.

In particular, you will:

Participating in product development and in particular contributing to organising interview sessions with relevant partners and writing user stories
Leading the product efforts to design a smooth and efficient user experience for data scientists and medical staff. This will involve both GUI and SDK interactions. Preservation of the privacy of our partners data is paramount and will be an important part of the design constraints.
Working closely with the software engineers of the squad to ensure the features are properly specified, prioritized, validated and delivered.
Contributing to customer and partner demos.

Position is based in our Paris or Nantes offices or remotely.

About you

Required qualifications / experience:

Good level of experience in product management.
Deep knowledge of agile methodologies for product building and delivery.
Deep knowledge of histology and genomics data types
Ideally, experience in bioinformatics, genomics or medical data science, specially in context of large scale national and international initiatives
Versatile skills from technical to business
Ability to interact with people of different backgrounds
Trustworthy
Problem solver
Ability to synthesise feedback effectively
Fluent English

Preferred qualifications/bonus:

Ideally, good knowledge about Machine Learning with medical data

What we offer

Competitive salary & excellent benefits package
Flexible work organization and access to remote work
Friendly and informal working environment
Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

Please attach a cover letter and a CV.
Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
Owkin is a great place to work. Unfortunately, being a coveted workplace means we are vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:
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Preferred experience

About us

Owkin exists to find the right treatment for every patient. Our focus is to use artificial intelligence to discover and develop better treatments for unmet medical needs, starting with the fight against cancer.In November, Owkin became a 'unicorn' - a startup worth more than $1 billion - through a $180 million investment from pharmaceutical company Sanofi. As a result, we are now looking for the brightest and best talent to help us to go even further in achieving our mission.