Technical Product Manager - Analysis Software

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Job Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe. Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.

Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement.

The Role...

The Technical Product Management team at Oxford Nanopore Technologies facilitates the successful creation, execution, and launch of new products across the organization such as sequencing kits, devices, and software. This role falls within the software product management team. In this role, the ideal candidate will serve as an Agile Product Owner for a team of software developers who work on our analysis software, EPI2ME. EPI2ME is a cloud and local analysis solution for data that is produced through Nanopore sequencing.

The team manages the application, works to integrate the application with other software, and adds new workflows to the application. As Technical Product Manager, the ideal candidate will manage the team's workload through Agile sprints, including requirements gathering, ticket creation, and running Agile ceremonies from standup to retrospective.

Additionally, the Technical Product Manager will gather customer feedback to identify customer needs and issues and convert this feedback into actionable tasks for the development team and will work closely with more senior product managers and the UX team to plan new features and developments to further improve the product.

The Technical Product Manager will also contribute to the product roadmap, and serve as the internal subject matter expert within the rest of product management, whilst ensuring the rest of the company is aware of new developments and progress through presentations and documentation and will also communicate changes to the Nanopore Community through release notes and documentation.

The role is dynamic and exciting, and provides an opportunity to work deeply on a software solution that impacts hundreds of our customers.

The Details...

• Work with other teams such as UX, product management, and tech support to help deliver innovative analysis workflows and software solutions
• Collaborate with more senior product managers on the roadmap for the analysis software team
• Mange the day-to-day agile processes of the team as product owner: requirements gathering, ticket creation, troubleshooting, running Agile scrum ceremonies
• Gather and distill customer feedback and translate that to product requirements for the team
• Support sales and marketing with product information and updates
• Ensure release timelines are hit and manage release activities such as announcements and release notes
• Create updates about the product and team progress and is comfortable presenting them to internal audiences large and small
• Possible travel to conferences and Nanopore days, not to exceed 10%

What We Are Looking For...

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, biology, hard science, or computer science preferred
• A quick learner who isn't afraid to ask questions and is eager to learn more about nanopore sequencing and analysis
• At least 1-2 years of software product management experience in an agile framework
• Prior experience in the biotechnology industry preferred
• Familiarity with DNA sequencing analysis and analysis software preferred
• Comfortable using Atlassian products including Jira and Confluence
• Very organized and able to keep track of multiple projects at once
• Can effectively communicate between software developers, customers, and other parts of the organization in varying levels of technical details
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-changing environment with shifting priorities
• Ability to manage and optimize team processes using data and team feedback
• Possesses innate problem solving skills- able to recognize problems and take action to prevent them from recurring
• A team player with strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to legally work in the UK and regularly work in-person at the head office in Oxford

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

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About Us

Oxford Nanopore's goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA. The technology is used in more than 100 countries to understand the biology of humans and diseases, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses and whole environments.

Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford and now employs over 1000 employees around the world.