Product Manager

Overview

Certara is a growing company that provides a dynamic and exciting place to work. Our purpose is to assist in accelerating the development of meaningful medicines that make an impact on our society and the people that need them most. Innovation and creativity are highly valued, and everyone is given the opportunity for training and continuous development. Our portfolio spans the discovery, preclinical, clinical and post-marketing phases of drug development, working with 1,200 commercial companies, 250 academic institutions, and numerous regulatory agencies.

As a Product Manager embedded in one of our Software divisions, you belong to the functional team whose work encompasses product strategy, product delivery, product management & product operations. This role will initially require you to lead the development of a scalable framework for integrating clinical and preclinical data applications by defining and prioritizing product requirements and roadmaps that enhance data accessibility, quality, and usability. Drive cross-functional initiatives to implement data integration strategies that ensure seamless interoperability across research, clinical, and informatics systems, supporting translational science and data-driven decision-making.

You and your colleagues in Product Management specifically are charged with :

• Gathering, prioritizing requirements from the market (customers and non-customers) and from across the Certara product teams
• Being accountable for decision-making, problem selection, and business outcomes.
• Guiding product lifecycle from ideation to development to go-to-market to scaled product-market-fit.
• Targeting R&D investments towards maximum value for customers and business ROI.

This role requires skillsets, experience, and competencies in :

We are open to candidates in the United States, United Kingdom or across Europe.

Responsibilities

Execution & Delivery

Cross-team Collaboration

Fluidly navigates the software development process and reviews the work of engineers and test engineers against self-written success criteria

Peer-reviews others' ideas, with strong sense of internal / external impacts / risks / constraints, resulting in profitable rewrites.

Judgement & Decision Making

Gathers and prioritizes requirements for user stories of large value

Documents client and product use cases, decisions, and business logic to allow full visibility for the team, keeping pace with evolving, complex, domain-specific and technical requirements, extending to cross-product integrations

Translates leaders' product visions into actionable priorities and counter-proposes compelling priorities

Frames decisions with clear objectives and context, trading off well among internal vs external stakeholder needs and long-term vs short-term goals.

Responsibility for Outcomes

Deliberate in proposing resource investments and achieves outcomes, including ownership of metrics such as near-term project budget and long-term user adoption.

Research & Strategy

Stakeholder Engagement

Without prompting, interviews clients with deep counter-questioning that reveals their out-of-product workflows and offers insightful conclusions-vetting those conclusions against hard data.

Data & Market Analysis

Instruments and interprets new product data analytics from multiple sources, and deeply parses competitors' offerings, to measure impact of past and present R&D efforts-with ability to pinpoint success factors.

Thought Leadership

Explains the product when called upon to internal (e.g., sales) audiences and clients via semi-structured live demos

Attends tradeshows to showcase offerings and produces at least one publication or presentation per year (company webinars, industry journals, 3rd party conferences, etc.)

Qualifications

Must Have

o Proven experience designing and implementing application integrations, including system interoperability and data exchange across platforms.

o Strong background working with data-intensive applications, with demonstrated expertise in data capture, data flow architecture, and data analysis to support business and scientific objectives.

o Strength in working across the portfolio to evangelize the capabilities of the integration platform and lobby for adoption in support of key use cases

o Fastidious for facts, insistent on evidence- and data-driven choices, able to separate signal from noise

o Systems-thinking and ability to predict or extrapolate to second, third, and fourth order effects (if A, then B, then C, then D...)

o Adept at analytics, independent research, unscripted interviews, and other intel-gathering techniques

o Not afraid to speak up and veto a bad idea, or have your ideas vetoed (our default is "NO") in favor of what our team decided to prioritize next

o Curious about our clients and products, cautious with our brand and industry goodwill, conscientious in follow-through

o Willing to learn and serve, flexible in adapting to rapid organizational change, receptive of constructive criticism

o High tolerance for ambiguity, low tolerance for mess; able to create order out of chaos, attend to details, and push quality higher

o Relentlessly resourceful and discerning in solving problems independently vs. seeking help from others; brave yet humble in working across multi-disciplinary teams where each person is more of an expert than you in their chosen field

o Fluency in working across functions to lead overall organizational readiness for product launch, including with Support, Commercial (sales and marketing) teams, Customer Success, and more

Preferred

o Intimate familiarity with a specific scientific domain, such as biosimulation, PK / PD modelling, clinical trial data standardization and analysis, etc.

o Ability to work in a remote position requiring constant spoken and written communication; skill in exerting influence (even on company founders, owners, and partners) without leverage or managerial authority

o Education or qualifications relating to business, programming, data science, health sciences, medical writing, customer support, project management, or corporate communications

o Experience working for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, clinical laboratory, pharmaceutical company, or Contract Research Organization (CRO)

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.