Product Manager - Clinical Study Design

Product Manager - Clinical Study Design - RDT Biometrics and Clinical Evidence

Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.

At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.

The Product Manager – Clinical Study Design sits at the intersection of clinical science, product innovation, and technology delivery, helping shape the Study Designer, a digital product transforming how clinical trials are designed. This role combines strong product thinking, user and workflow understanding, and technical curiosity to translate complex clinical needs into intuitive, high-value digital capabilities. The ideal candidate is curious, collaborative, AI-minded, and passionate about using technology to enable smarter, faster, and more effective clinical study design.

The Opportunity

• Understand Users & Workflows: Work directly with Clinical Scientists, Biostatisticians, Medical Writers, and other study team members to understand how clinical studies are designed today, where users struggle, and where technology can meaningfully improve their experience.
• Shape Product Features: Partner with Product Managers, UX designers, engineers, and scientific experts to turn user problems and opportunities into product concepts, workflows, features, and incremental releases.
• Drive Product Discovery: Participate in user interviews, discovery workshops, design sessions, prototyping, and experimentation to understand the problem before jumping to a solution.
• Translate Problems into Buildable Products: Break complex clinical workflows into clear product capabilities, user journeys, stories, and acceptance criteria that engineering teams can act upon—while maintaining focus on the underlying user problem and intended outcome.
• Prioritize for Value: Help evaluate competing requests and opportunities based on user value, business impact, technical complexity, dependencies, and product strategy rather than treating every request as a requirement.
• Partner with Engineering: Work closely with engineers and architects throughout development, understanding technical constraints and tradeoffs and helping the team find pragmatic solutions without losing sight of the user experience.

Who You Are

• Professional Experience: Requires significant years of experience in product management, senior business analysis, or hybrid product leadership with complex digital products, plus multiple years of hands-on experience in clinical trial design, clinical development, or closely related life sciences.
• Education & Certifications: A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, Computer Science, or Information Systems is required; a Master's degree or PhD in a clinical/scientific/biomedical field is preferred, and Business Analysis certifications are highly valued.
• Product Lifecycle & Requirements Management: Proven track record of managing the end-to-end product lifecycle from early discovery to live deployment and value measurement, backed by expert-level skill in writing structured user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specs, and traceability matrices. Demonstrated experience understanding user problems and translating them into workflows, product capabilities, user stories, prototypes, or software features.
• AI and Technical Literacy: Curiosity about AI-enabled and data-driven products and demonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day work. Preferred understanding of core software development concepts, including APIs, data models, microservices architecture, and cloud-based platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Agile Frameworks & Tool Proficiency: Offers extensive experience operating within agile/scrum frameworks, featuring hands-on ownership of backlog management and sprint execution while being highly proficient in tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Productboard.
• Scientific Fluency & Systems Thinking: Possesses the scientific fluency to engage in deep, credible protocol design and regulatory conversations with physicians and researchers, combined with systems thinking to see how individual features connect to broader clinical workflows and patient outcomes.
• Leadership, Influence & Adaptability: Proven ability to lead, build coalitions, and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority; thrives with an innovation-oriented mindset and exhibits comfort with ambiguity when priorities shift or problems are undefined.

We look forward to your application!

At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.