Job Description
Department Summary:
The Cancer Diagnostics Product Director is a leadership position within the Guardant Health Oncology Product Department, which is responsible for product portfolio strategy and lifecycle management of all products in the oncology division. Each product area comprises three functions: the product director, who leads and is ultimately responsible for the area, product operations, who are focused on internal implementation and execution with technical, laboratory, and commercial stakeholders, and product software, who are focused on internal implementation and execution with software and infrastructure stakeholders.
About the Role:
The Cancer Diagnostics Product Director leads and is responsible for the product strategy and execution within the GuardantINFORM franchise, comprising conception, planning, development, and commercial performance of Guardant Health’s clinical genomics database (CGDB), products and portfolio. The individual will lead cross-functional teams in the above but will also be a primary individual contributor on product deliverables and in ensuring the success of the overall roadmap.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Cancer Diagnostics Director will be solely responsible for product conception and strategy and will be the principal in presenting the product vision to governance.
- Build and own the multi-year product roadmap based on key inputs from internal and external stakeholders for Guardant Health’s CGDB-based products.
- Perform external research to understand the market, competition, and customer needs.
- Partner with internal customers (e.g. scientists, medical affairs, clinical development, reimbursement, regulatory, operations, business development and sales/marketing) to build customer and product requirements for Guardant CGDB-based portfolio.
- Build and own business cases to enable organizational decision-making for its CGDB-based product portfolio.
- Lead cross-functional team in assembling a detailed, mature, aligned, and achievable product development plan that delivers everything necessary for implementation, including technical development, UX, commercial launch, and multi-threaded product strategies (i.e. promotional, regulatory, reimbursement and strategies).
- Responsible for guiding the cross-functional development team in its execution and for the fulfillment of all product requirements in a fast-paced environment.
- Support commercial launch teams to ensure that product transfer to customers and commercial operations meets all product requirements.
- Responsible for product-market-fit, product feature maintenance and updates, and end-of-life planning.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications
- Strong foundation and experience in diagnostics, device, clinical trial design, clinical decision support tools, or equivalent technical field.
- Experience and a demonstrated track record of success in product development.
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, and oral and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of product development and leadership experience.
- Experience in regulated oncology diagnostics.
- PhD or equivalent degree preferred, or equivalent experience preferred.
- Working knowledge of medical diagnostics reimbursement and commercial operation.
- Ability to work through strategic business concepts and go-to-market plans.
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