Product Manager, Digital Health Specialist

Product Manager, Digital Health Specialist

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world.

This position is based in Northbrook, Illinois. Hybrid work from certain states may be permitted in accordance with Astellas' Responsible Flexibility Guidelines. Candidates interested in hybrid work are encouraged to apply.

Purpose :

The Digital Product Management chapter is growing to support strategic initiatives within Astellas. One such space is the Rx Pod within the HealthX Hub. This is home to the exploration, development, and delivery of patient facing Digital Health solutions for Astellas' pharmaceutical brands. This role involves leading or being a core member of a Value Team(s) as a Digital Product Manager, exploring and understanding business / brand / patient needs and opportunities, translating these into digital health product strategies and roadmaps, and leading exploration and development of solutions from early prototype to launch and post launch evolution. The Digital Product Manager will coordinate Value Team activities working closely with the Pod and Hub leadership teams as needed, delivering value for the brands and wider business, working within our agile methodology and development framework.

Essential Job Responsibilities :

As a member of the Digital Product Management chapter, although this role is expected to focus principally on Digital Health product initiatives, opportunities, and solutions, it is expected that the foundational and core skills of digital product management can be leveraged where appropriate and necessary to work as a core member of, or Value Team captain for, other Value Teams within DigitalX, as directed by the Digital Product Management Chapter Lead.

Some of the expected core responsibilities are outlined below :

• Explore, collate, and translate patient, brand, and business needs into Digital Health product opportunities and initiatives. Specifically, driving identification of Digital Health opportunities aligned to strategic brand objectives and unmet user needs.
• Manage stakeholder communications and help champion Digital Health product initiatives aligned to strategic and broader organizational objectives.
• For a given brand(s) or early asset(s), lead and own product strategy and road mapping activities for Digital Health product initiatives, aligning with brand objectives, business goals, and market needs.
• Lead a cross-functional value team(s) through the full digital product lifecycle - from landscaping, ideation, prototyping, development, testing, to launch and continuous improvement based on user feedback and performance metrics.
• Act as the voice of the customer, identifying user pain points and opportunities through research and feedback, and advocating for value creation through development / deployment of Digital Health products.
• Define clear product requirements, prioritize features, and manage agile development cycles, ensuring rapid iteration and progress, high-quality delivery, and strong alignment between brand stakeholders and technical teams.
• Monitor product performance, using analytics and user engagement data to drive continuous improvement, optimizing product iterations and output quality.
• Stay current with Digital Health advancements and industry trends to innovate and maintain competitive advantage in product opportunity mapping and strategic development considerations.
• Collaborate with legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, and security, as appropriate, to ensure adherence to relevant regulations in pharma (GxP, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.).

This position may require travel domestically and / or internationally.