Senior Product Leader, Therapeutics Discovery

Genentech

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Location
South San Francisco, CA
Salary
$126,100–$234,100 / yr
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Full-time
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1 day ago
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TL;DR · Senior Product Leader, Therapeutics Discovery

As a Senior Product Leader, Therapeutics Discovery, you will join the Data and Digital Catalysts team within the Computational Sciences Center of Excellence. You will own a subset of scientific informatics products designed to facilitate assay request, setup, execution, and experimental data capture. Your daily responsibilities include owning product roadmaps, translating complex scientific workflows into functional requirements, and partnering with experimental scientists to define metadata needs. You will build adaptable workflows that ensure data is interpretable, traceable, and reusable for machine learning and scientific analysis. Key skills include drug discovery understanding, scientific data fluency, and experience delivering informatics solutions in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals. You will coordinate with laboratory information management systems and data-layer teams to improve workflow reliability and metadata completeness across various therapeutic modalities.

What you'll do

  • Own the roadmap, prioritization, and outcomes for assigned scientific informatics products.
  • Translate laboratory assay workflows into practical product requirements for data capture.
  • Define the data, identifiers, and metadata required to interpret and reuse experimental results.
  • Embed data validation and capture into workflows to support scientific analysis and machine learning.
  • Coordinate with LIMS and data-layer teams to ensure experimental context remains linked to results.
  • Translate scientific needs into user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
  • Drive product adoption and evaluate usability with engineering and scientific partners.
  • Track outcomes such as setup effort, metadata completeness, and workflow reliability.

What we're looking for

  • A bachelor's, master's, or advanced degree in a relevant scientific or technical discipline.
  • Experience delivering impactful informatics solutions in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or drug discovery.
  • PhD plus 1–3 years, a master's degree plus 3–5 years, or a bachelor's degree plus 4–7 years of experience.
  • Substantial understanding of the drug discovery and research context, including how assays inform scientific decisions.
  • Experience translating scientific problems into informatics solutions through product management, business analysis, or scientific informatics.
  • Ability to define requirements, prioritize needs, and take ownership of delivery and outcomes within a defined scope.
  • Ability to build trusted relationships and communicate scientific needs and product decisions clearly to scientists, engineers, and leadership.
  • Hands-on assay development or execution experience (preferred).

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