R&D Project Manager III

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

DUTIES: • Work with product management, developers, customers, sales and service to align on use cases and requirements.

• Engage with customers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Gather and analyze technical specifications.
• Manage product backlog, user stories and cross-product dependencies.
• Serve as a software product owner within our agile software development process: define features to support the identified use cases and requirements, create and refine user stories in cooperation with the team, prioritize and manage the team backlog, and work with the scrum team to implement features.
• Capture feedback about specific needs by communicating with cross functional team members on a regular basis and using this information to improve the products.
• Provide design inputs and subject matter expert feedback to help the team better understand customer requirements.
• Serve as a connection point between the local team and the global organization providing day-to-day support to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Drive customer satisfaction by optimizing product performance, improving reliability and stability, continuously balancing the introduction of new features with the implementation of functional and non-functional improvements.
• Work with product managers to tune prioritizations based on business, customer, and engineering priorities.
• Work with test teams to ensure understanding of the core and extended use cases.
• Support process improvement and quality assurance where vital.
• Proactively ensure that all members of the commercial team are engaged, incentivized and trained on product launches.
• Cross check all the requirements are met through extensive domain testing (manual).
• Communicate product ideas using tools like wire framing and interface with user experience team.
• Participate in product strategy and roadmap planning.
• Develop and perform product demos.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization.
• Work independently, in a collaborative environment, and be able to handle multiple projects in parallel.
• Present strategy to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the new technology development within a multidisciplinary team of scientists.
• Develop a pipeline for design, data analysis algorithms & tools and “intuitive” methods for data visualization.
• Setting up, testing, and monitoring workflows to ensure that processes function at desired efficiency.
• Sustaining and Supporting workflows post-implementation and resolving any issues that arises to avoid disruptions.

Travel: Up to 25% domestic and international travel required

REQUIREMENTS:

MINIMUM Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics, Information Technology, Life Sciences, or related field of study.
MINIMUM Experience Requirement: 5 years of Project Management, Business Analysis, or related experience.

Alternative Education and Experience Requirement: Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Information Technology, Life Sciences, or related field of study plus 2 years of Project Management, Business Analysis, or related experience Required knowledge or experience with:

• Experience working in an Agile software development environment as part of a scrum team;
• Working in a complex matrixed environment with competing priorities requiring project prioritization;
• Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI);
• Experience with Databases, such as SQL and NoSQL; and
• Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle.

Salary: $117900 to $133000 per year

• Engage with customers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Gather and analyze technical specifications.
• Manage product backlog, user stories and cross-product dependencies.
• Serve as a software product owner within our agile software development process: define features to support the identified use cases and requirements, create and refine user stories in cooperation with the team, prioritize and manage the team backlog, and work with the scrum team to implement features.
• Capture feedback about specific needs by communicating with cross functional team members on a regular basis and using this information to improve the products.
• Provide design inputs and subject matter expert feedback to help the team better understand customer requirements.
• Serve as a connection point between the local team and the global organization providing day-to-day support to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Drive customer satisfaction by optimizing product performance, improving reliability and stability, continuously balancing the introduction of new features with the implementation of functional and non-functional improvements.
• Work with product managers to tune prioritizations based on business, customer, and engineering priorities.
• Work with test teams to ensure understanding of the core and extended use cases.
• Support process improvement and quality assurance where vital.
• Proactively ensure that all members of the commercial team are engaged, incentivized and trained on product launches.
• Cross check all the requirements are met through extensive domain testing (manual).
• Communicate product ideas using tools like wire framing and interface with user experience team.
• Participate in product strategy and roadmap planning.
• Develop and perform product demos.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization.
• Work independently, in a collaborative environment, and be able to handle multiple projects in parallel.
• Present strategy to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the new technology development within a multidisciplinary team of scientists.
• Develop a pipeline for design, data analysis algorithms & tools and “intuitive” methods for data visualization.
• Setting up, testing, and monitoring workflows to ensure that processes function at desired efficiency.
• Sustaining and Supporting workflows post-implementation and resolving any issues that arises to avoid disruptions