Bioinformatics Technical Product Owner / Product Manager

Job ID: 7153
Job date: 2017-06-03
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Company : QIAGEN 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
You will work with a dynamic and agile team to help open up the QIAGEN Biox platform to bioinformatics partners, customers and users. This is an excellent position for an experienced bioinformatician or technically-inclined NGS specialist with experience working with customers, strong project management skills, excellent interpersonal and technical communication capabilities (written and oral), interested in moving into a more business-focused role that spans product, technology, and customer service. A strong candidate will enjoy both the external- and internal- facing activities, and be able to move smoothly between them. As a hands-on technical product owner working on QIAGEN’s BioX integration technology, you will balance your time between helping build out DataStream features and capabilities, and then applying these capabilities to develop new integrated genomic data analysis solutions and workflows that span QIAGEN and partner technologies. You will work with to improve our methods for opening up the platform to bioinformatics partners. Much of this will be driven by hands on experience, and thus you will spend much of your time engaging directly with partners, customers, and end users to define, develop, and deliver new, powerful, high-value workflow integrations that serve mutual customers and users interested in streamlined access to the product line.

With your experience with specific integrations, as well as your deep understanding of customer and partner needs, you willl help shape and deliver the DataStream technology roadmap. You will work closely with your partners as well as internal developers, scientific and technical leadership, product management, customer service and other internal groups to identify, prioritize, develop, and deliver improved features and capabilities in DataStream technology components, including API, integrations, and data (file formats, different types of datasets, etc.). Your first-hand experience working with partners to roll out new NGS (and other) integrations will serve as a key source of input to drive the DataStream technology roadmap.

You will communicate engagement project status, risks as well as DataStream development priorities and release planning to customer, partners, integrators and internatl key stakesholders to help manage our entire solution portfolio. You may be asked to contribute in a variety of ways beyond the DataStream initiative to help the company succeed and help our customers better the world.

Position Requirements :

- Bioinformatics leadership: strong customer and/or consulting skills and demonstrated leadership among partners and within bioinformatics development teams delivering solutions to a large base of customers, clients or active users.

- Strong focus on tactical execution and partner satisfaction: you will own integration projects from a technical delivery standpoint, and will be the hub and center of managing the day-to-day activities of the full engagement team. You may be expected to manage several of these engagements in parallel.

- Agile project management experience: Experience leading the development and support of web- and internet-based bioinformatics tools and services with a significant customer or client base.

- Partner and user needs assessment: This is a technical bioinformatics role, with a specific focus on system integration, workflow automation, usability, and overall customer experience. As such, you will be required to deeply understand and empathize with the scientific user needs and tasks that will be supported by our integrations, and to translate these needs – in close collaboration with our partners – into specific technical requirements for the bioinformatics integration.

- Solution conceptualization and requirements definition: you will work with the technical teams to map requirements into specific improvements or changes to our bioinformatics solutions, including DataStream APIs, services, system components, and workflows.

- Technical writing and communication: you will be expected to create and deliver bioinformatics technical materials (documentation, presentations, sample code, technical case studies, etc.) to support such engagements.

- Strong cross-functional skills: good at driving collaboration between fast-moving departments and companies, adding just enough project management structure to keep things moving while maintaining agility and speed.

- Issue resolution: You will work with your counterpart at partners to resolve problems that arise, acting as the escalating point if issues arise that cannot be resolved within the delivery team itself.

- Strong knowledge of molecular biology and genetics, including experience analyzing human sequence / genome datasets using bioinformatics techniques.

- Team player who enjoys working with cross-functional groups of engineers, scientists, software developers, and product managers.

- Excellent communication, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.

- Self-starter, who is detailed, thorough, organized, and has proven ability to independently prioritize and scope work as needed to meet business objectives.

- Excellent time management, organizational and multitasking skills.

Preferred:

- Demonstrated ability to build and run NGS analysis pipelines as well as using genomic data analysis products.

- Knowledge of Java or Python a plus.

- Experience with user interface and workflow design as applied to bioinformatics use cases.

Personal Requirements :

- 3+ years’ experience with bioinformatics software product management, consulting or customer-facing technical leadership (must be external facing).

- 2+ years’ experience with NGS and genomic tools and data formats.

- 1+ years’ experience in molecular biology research.

- 1+ years’ experience in a genomic research lab, core facility, or other service capacity that involved delivery of high quality services to outside clients.

- B.S. in Bioinformatics, Computer Science with demonstrated biology and genetics knowledge; or equivalent industry experience. This is a highly technical role and thus demonstrated bioinformatics knowledge and capabilities are required.

- M.S. in Bioinformatics; Computer Science with demonstrated biology and genetics knowledge; or equivalent industry experience


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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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