Director of Product

Job Description

Job Description

The Company

At CancerIQ, our technology is expanding access to precision cancer prevention, early detection & treatment to more patient populations.

We build software and design services that make it easy for health systems to use genetic information to get ahead of cancer at scale.

Our best-in-class, science-based platform is proven to double genetic counseling service capacity, quadruple genetic testing uptake & significantly improve screening compliance.

To date, CancerIQ has raised over $26 million to deliver on our mission, with our Series B funding round led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Amgen Ventures.

Our team is made up of a committed, all-in group of people who are as driven to ending cancer as we know it as the providers and patients we serve.

This has led to a growing network of over 200 clinical locations across the country, with a robust ecosystem of partners in the diagnostic and genomics space behind us.

But we’re committed to scaling quickly in this era of tremendous progress against cancer, we’re looking for people to be just as tremendously committed to their work at CancerIQ.

If you want your work to matter, join us.

The Role

You will have a central role on this team, helping us imagine the next set of products we’ll launch, collaborating with the team on strategy for those new products, and bringing them to market.

You will also lead iterative improvements within the existing suite of products. This is a highly cross-functional role, where you’ll be collaborating with teams across the organization from sales and business development to customer success to marketing and engineering.

Collaborate on building and maintaining the near and longer term product roadmaps

Develop product pipeline by leading analysis, research, and business case development for potential new products and current product improvements

Lead launches of new products and platforms from ideation to go-to-market, including cross-functional planning and project management

Manage and execute the ideation phase of new product launches, including conducting user research to understand customer needs and pain points, and set the strategy and narrative to address them

Help manage and optimize both new and existing products once they’re in-market

Stay up on trends in the market, including competitor research and intel

Responsibilities

Utilize deep knowledge of the health care segment’s buyer personas, user personas, healthcare stakeholder structure, market, competition, and technology to identify segment use cases and develop a product vision to serve those use cases.

• Conduct rigorous market, competition, and product analysis for new areas where CancerIQ’s technology can bring about significant change.
• Leverage your understanding of CancerIQ’s capabilities to inform the ongoing development of our new product / market penetration strategies.
• Continuously evaluate product / market fit to ensure optimal direction of the CancerIQ product roadmap and initiatives.
• Track and understand industry trends, research findings and competitive innovations.
• Infuse product roadmaps with both qualitative and quantitative data evidence.
• Communicate product strategy and roadmap to create common understanding and support from leadership and stakeholders.
• Communicate product strategy and roadmap to our customers, prospects and the broader industry.
• Prioritize and execute a backlog of product discovery projects and new feature ideas to drive commercial growth and achieve key company KPIs.
• Collaborate closely with our engineering and scrum teams to execute and deliver on product outputs.
• Collaborate closely with our sales and marketing team to ensure they have the right tools to correctly position our products in the market.

Requirements

Who you are :

You are someone who can *really* understand and connect with our customer - you're deeply empathetic when it comes to understanding consumer psychology, needs, and behaviors.

You're a collaborative and communicative team player who enjoys working and driving projects, and works cross-functionally with a wide range of personalities.

Qualifications - Education and Experience

10+ years product experience as a Product Manager in a SaaS software company

5+ years of leading and / or managing product team members

Experience with creating clinical software and / or chronic disease related software preferred

Experience in SaaS healthcare IT or life science software required

Experience creating and informing product strategy and product roadmap

Qualifications - Attributes and Required Skills

Business and Industry Insight : Able to develop and use strong knowledge of healthcare ecosystem and stakeholders to understand new products quickly and completely

Business Value Identification : Able to isolate and have deep conviction of the core value delivered by a product

Focus on Important Content : Able to gain deep understanding of a topic and distill down to the most important points.

Reasoning & Critical Thinking : Uses logic and reasoning to better become an expert, and to explain the pros / cons of alternatives not chosen.

Curiosity & an Expert Mindset : Is able to independently drive questions, finding gaps in content and leading to a stronger core understanding.

Writing : Able to create simple / minimal writing, simplify complicated work of others, intuitively use tables or diagrams in cases where a picture is worth a thousand words.

Leadership and Mentoring Mindset : Able to lead a team, manage diverse personalities and work with a multitude of stakeholders to deliver product objectives and meet deadlines.

Able to help grow and mentor other product team members

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits (Health, Vision, Dental, HSA / FSA, EAP, 401-K, Commuter Benefits)
• Headquartered in Chicago's iconic Wrigley Building, with complementary Water Taxi service to and from Union and Ogilvy Stations
• Complementary gym membership with daily instructor-led classes located in the building
• Generous company paid holidays and monthly CancerIQ mental health days
• Formal training and professional development opportunities
• Bi-annual "All Hands" weeks where local Chicago employees convene and connect with employees based in other cities
• Passionate, high-energy culture with a team of people that are excited to get stuff done and make an impact
• Building things that save lives

CancerIQ is building a diverse and inclusive work environment. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

We are an equal opportunity employer and strive to cultivate a fast-paced, collaborative, laid back, rewarding space to work.