Sr. Product Manager

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Position Overview

At Exact Sciences we are cancer fighters. We are united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes.

The Sr. Product Manager partners closely with assigned product and business teams to define solutions aligned with customer needs and business objectives. This role is responsible for defining the product roadmap and driving end-to-end delivery for a product area or user journey. Working collaboratively with business stakeholders development teams design and other cross-functional partners the Sr. Product Manager facilitates roadmap execution and advances product development for a defined set of digital solutions or customer experiences.

This position leads business requirement gathering analyzes the problem space to define user stories acceptance criteria and ultimately verifies the work generated by the development teams meets the stakeholders requirements. The Sr. Product Manager supports product teams by contributing to projects of medium complexity and ensures business user and technology needs are met through continuous analysis iteration solutioning and delivery.

The Sr. Product Manager enjoys both the strategic work of finding the best solution and the implementation work of how best to bring it to life for maximum impact. This person excels at working with business stakeholders across the organization to bring new initiatives to life for example: lab compliance logistics and beyond. The individual will possess strong leadership skills including the ability to influence multiple stakeholders and leaders without direct authority.

This role requires onsite work in Madison WI up to four times a week.

Essential Duties

Include but are not limited to the following:

• Demonstrate complete knowledge skills and understanding of practices for complex programs and initiatives exhibiting creativity and substantial understanding of specialized techniques processes and procedures.
• Engage as a key voice of the customer for stakeholders for one or more product areas to ensure their needs are heard and that delivery teams are getting the support needed.
• Translate user and business needs into high-level requirements for work assignments of medium complexity by utilizing a structured process for gathering analyzing documenting and managing change to assess and recommend solutions based on cost vs. benefit analysis and parallels to overall business strategy.
• Define acceptance criteria for product features of medium complexity and ensure they are understood by the delivery team.
• Maintain detailed documentation such as gap analyses business process flow charts decision tables features and business requirements document to aid in the development and refinement of new analytical tools and processes.
• Execute plans during the implementation phase composing standard operating procedures (SOPs) participating in design reviews and walk throughs.
• Track product performance after implementation to ensure efficiency of operations and proactively provide continuous improvement recommendations.
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure product success. Monitor product performance analyze data and make data-driven decisions to improve product outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with Quality Engineering (QE) to ensure the product meets high standards of quality performance and reliability by defining the product requirements and acceptance criteria which are then used by the QE team to develop test plans and test cases.
• Create and maintain the product roadmap for area of responsibility that outlines the development and release of features.
• Communicate product strategy roadmap and progress to stakeholders including executives partners and customers.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and prioritize competing demands to ensure alignment and focus.
• Actively participate in all squad ceremonies.
• Review work completed by the squad provide feedback and accept work as applicable.
• Manage the product backlog by grooming and prioritizing while ensuring work is in line with product strategy and OKRs.
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers and business partners to drive satisfaction.
• Consistently influence and make significant decisions within a project demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions based in a solid understanding of business strategy and best practices with minimal instructions for difficult or unpredictable situations.
• Ability to collaborate and operate in a cross-cultural and complex matrixed environment to build consensus across functions.
• Contribute individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives and work effectively with others in a group setting. This includes mentoring coaching and technical guidance for junior members of the team.
• Communicate clear and concise product updates and releases to internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability innovation integrity quality and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the companys Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a field related to essential duties; or Associates Degree and 2 years of relevant experience; or High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and 4 years of relevant experience.
• 5 years of relevant professional experience as outlined in the essential duties.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products/services.
• Experience applying techniques and methods of modern product management product discovery and product delivery along with expertise with product management platforms and tools.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate the development of product vision strategic roadmaps and go-to-market strategy for services and products as part of a broader end-to-end user experience.
• Advanced problem-solving organizational and analytical skills with the ability to evolve product strategy based on research data and industry trends.
• Advanced business analysis skills including but not limited to process and user flow definition and business KPIs.
• Advanced skills in translating complex user business operational and technical requirements into clear epics features stories and acceptance criteria.
• Some experience with A/B testing user testing user interviews and conversions funnels.
• Experience engaging with engineers designers researchers SMEs and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship where you can both learn and influence.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in country where work will be performed on a full or part-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Life Sciences Engineering Marketing Business or Finance.
• Experience in life science healthcare bioinformatics wellness or digital health.
• Knowledge of digital analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics Tableau Google Analytics etc. A/B testing tools such as AB Tasty Optimizely MoEngage etc. and/or design tools such as Adobe XD Figma Sketch etc.

Salary Range:

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation holidays volunteering and personal time) paid leave for parents and caregivers a retirement savings plan wellness support and health benefits including medical prescription drug dental and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

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