Product Owner
Iris's direct client, a leader in Healthcare services, looking to hire a strong Product Owner for a Long-Term Contractual role Job title: Product Owner Location: 100% Remote Duration: 18 Months Skills: Product Owner, Clinical Trial Platform Job Description: Product Manager – Clinical Trial Platform Role Overview · The Product Manager for the Clinical Trial Platform is responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for technology that supports end-to-end clinical trial execution. · This role blends product management discipline with deep understanding of regulated clinical workflows, ensuring the platform delivers measurable value to sponsors, CROs, research sites, and patients. · The PM drives feature development across study startup, patient identification, eligibility, randomization, visit scheduling, data capture, workflow orchestration, and compliance. Key Responsibilities 1. Product Vision & Strategy · Define and articulate the product vision for a unified clinical trial platform supporting decentralized, hybrid, and site-based studies. · Identify unmet needs across patient identification, trial matching, screening, site intake, randomization, scheduling, and data flows. · Translate market trends, regulatory requirements, and customer insights into strategic product outcomes (efficiency, compliance, adoption, data quality). · Conduct competitive analysis and monitor industry guidelines to ensure the platform remains compliant and differentiated. 2. Roadmap Ownership · Build and maintain a clear, actionable roadmap balancing long-term platform evolution with short-term operational needs. · Prioritize features using transparent decision frameworks that weigh user value, regulatory impact, technical feasibility, and business goals. · Communicate roadmap updates to internal and external stakeholders. 3. Requirements & Delivery Leadership · Own the product backlog, EPICs, and feature definitions with detailed acceptance criteria, user flows, and value statements. · Develop user personas, user stories, workflows, and prototypes to support engineering and design teams. · Partner with engineering, clinical SMEs, data teams, and QA to ensure delivery meets quality, compliance (including 21 CFR Part 11), and performance expectations. · Support sprint planning, refinement, and release scoping. 4. Customer & Stakeholder Engagement · Act as the voice of sponsors, CROs, investigators, research coordinators, and patients. · Conduct discovery sessions at research sites and sponsor teams to understand workflow constraints and pain points. · Gather and synthesize customer feedback to inform prioritization and continuous improvement. · Collaborate with commercial, operations, data services, and regulatory teams to ensure alignment across product initiatives. 5. Product Launch, Adoption & Performance · Coordinate release readiness across training, documentation, communications, and customer-facing teams. · Define and track adoption, usage, and performance metrics to measure product success. · Use platform analytics to identify opportunities for optimization and new capabilities. Required Qualifications · Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, product management, or related field. · 3–7 years of product management experience, ideally within clinical trials, healthcare technology, or regulated SaaS platforms. · Strong understanding of clinical trial workflows (eligibility, screening, randomization, visit scheduling, data capture, protocol adherence). · Experience translating complex workflows into clear product requirements. Preferred Qualifications · Experience working at a sponsor, CRO, research site, or clinical technology company. · Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (Google Cloud Platform, 21 CFR Part 11, GDPR, HIPAA). · Experience with AI-enabled product capabilities or advanced analytics in clinical research. · Prior involvement in decentralized or hybrid clinical trial technologies.