Staff Product Owner

At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.

We are seeking a Staff Product Owner to lead the development of software solutions for our multiomic data generation instrumentation. This role is critical in defining and delivering software that seamlessly integrates instrumentation, cloud-based analytics, bioinformatics, and user workflows in a cutting-edge environment. As a key member of the Software Product Design team, you will drive the development of scalable, high-performance systems that power multiomic data generation, single-cell and tissue analysis, and high-throughput data generation. This role will report to our Associate Director, Product Software and will be a daily on-site San Diego based role.

If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this role.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Given company level initiatives, own, prioritize, and manage product backlogs, creating epics, user stories, and requirements -- organizing scrum teams around the work
• Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals
• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, and complete trade-off analyses to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments
• Take ownership to be the system Subject Matter Expert, spending time to understand the software architecture and interfaces 
• Partner with bioinformatics, cloud, and instrument control software teams to design scalable and performant data pipelines, analysis workflows, and instrument control interfaces
• Transform operational and customer needs into technical descriptions and design specifications for the software system
• Lead the requirement gathering process and perform requirement analysis and risk analysis
• Act as a liaison to the product manager, operations, and development teams to coordinate inter-dependencies and ensure overall product delivery, maintaining necessary project management deliverables
• Assist in troubleshooting problems during development and product sustaining
• Champion user experience (UX) and human-centered design, ensuring scientists, lab technicians, and bioinformaticians can effectively interact with the system
• Own and maintain software requirements specifications and risk analysis documents
• Take key initiatives, find paths forward, track progress, and deliver key feature sets for customers with little oversight
• Work as part of a team to design, implement, integrate, and test the software that enables the development and use of Element’s sequencing instrumentation
• Work as part of a team to implement AI/ML technologies to enhance product capabilities

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Programming, Bioengineering, Computer Science, or related field 
• 5-8+ years in the Life Science Industry with knowledge of cell biology, multi-omic analysis, and DNA sequencing 
• Experience with cloud SaaS, data analysis, and instrumentation software development teams 
• Experience with requirement generation, management, and solution architecture 
• Experience with project management and product management (technical emphasis) 
• Experience working with software development teams leveraging the following languages/technologies: Go, React, MongoDB, Redis, gRPC, SQL, Python
• Strong self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and good at organizing a development team around a vision or feature set 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic skills 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Be able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment 
• Experience in participating in cross-organizational or inter-company collaboration 
• Organization and multi-tasking skills that strike a balance among validation/verification, requirements analysis, customer interaction and project oversight 

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds

Location:

• San Diego – On-site

Travel: 

• Up to 10% domestic or as needed

Job Type:

• Full-time, Exempt

Base Compensation Pay Range:

• $144,000 - $190,000

In addition to base compensation noted above, you will be eligible for stock options, discretionary annual bonus, no cost health insurance plans, 401k with company match, and flexible paid time off. 

Please note: Base compensation will depend on multiple factors, including geographic location, qualifications, and experience. 

We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.