Senior Manager (Product Owner), Digital Solutions, Technical Development

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Manager (Product Owner), R&D Information Systems to support a portfolio of Technical Development digital solution areas. This role translates scientific workflows and stakeholder needs into clear, build-ready requirements; maintains a practical roadmap and prioritized backlog; and coordinates cross-functional delivery through partnership and influence.

Responsibilities

• Work with lab and data scientists, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand current scientific workflows, define future-state processes, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, data quality, and user experience.
• Embed AI, data science, modeling, automation, and other computational approaches into digital workflows where they improve scientific work, usability, or data-driven ways of working.
• Translate scientific and operational needs into clear solution artifacts, including process flows, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, data/integration requirements, and UAT plans.
• Maintain the roadmap and prioritized backlog for assigned digital solutions, balancing organizational impact, user value, scientific rigor, timelines, risk, and technical complexity.
• Guide delivery teams and working groups by clarifying priorities, dependencies, acceptance criteria, release readiness, and issue resolution.
• Partner with TechDev Data Science, IT, Quality, Digital Operations, and other groups across Gilead so solutions are integrated, supportable, fit for intended use, and aligned with data and compliance expectations.
• Identify opportunities to reuse requirements, workflow patterns, data definitions, and solution approaches across related TechDev initiatives to reduce duplication and improve consistency.
• Cook up user validation, rollout planning, training and communication needs, adoption feedback loops, and impact tracking for assigned capabilities.
• Support AI-enabled solution areas in line with Gilead’s Responsible AI requirements and governance processes, including risk-based assessment, clear accountability, appropriate oversight, and safeguards that help protect patients, employees, data, and Gilead.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS with 8+ years of relevant experience; MA/MS/MBA with 6+ years of relevant experience; or PhD with relevant scientific, technical, informatics, or business systems experience.
• Experience in product ownership, business process analysis, solution delivery, data platforms, scientific workflow solutions, or technical systems implementation in a lab-based environment.
• Experience supporting pharmaceutical development, Technical Development, CMC, laboratory informatics, ELN, sample/materials management, workflow automation, data-enabled workflows, or adjacent scientific domains.
• Ability to translate complex scientific or operational workflows into clear requirements, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and UAT plans.
• Clear communication and stakeholder partnership skills, including the ability to synthesize complex technical and scientific topics and support alignment across diverse audiences.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional delivery through partnership and influence, including work with business SMEs, IT/platform teams, engineering, Quality, Data Science, and operations partners.
• Working knowledge of data and integration concepts relevant to scalable digital solutions, including APIs, metadata, identifiers, data quality, and system boundaries.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience integrating data science, data-enabled, AI-enabled, or computational capabilities into scientific or operational workflows.
• Experience developing reusable requirements templates, business process standards, or working practices across related solution areas.
• Experience working in GMP-adjacent environments, including fit-for-purpose documentation, intended-use clarity, and change control expectations.

Benefits

The salary range for this position is: $169,320.00 - $219,120.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*. For Additional Benefits Information, Visit here.

Pay

$169,320.00 - $219,120.00

Schedule

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