(Senior) Software Product Manager

Roche; Mannheim; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Roche is seeking a Product Owner to lead cloud software product development within the SAFe framework. You will translate customer needs into user stories, manage roadmaps, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization.

The role requires strong experience in product management, agile methods, and the healthcare domain, with the ability to drive delivery in a complex, global environment. Roche fosters diversity and values open dialogue and personal expression.

Qualifikationen

• Holds a BSc and MSc in IT/Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in the product development lifecycle.
• 5+ years in product management, roadmaps and backlog management for large products.
• 2+ years in healthcare sector and managing medical device products.

Aufgaben

• Understand the product outcome and translate it into value for customers, market and business.
• Gather functional requirements and conceptualize features that meet customer needs including non-functional requirements.
• Lead product definition with scrum master and development team within SAFe framework.
• Own features and user story refinement and planning sessions in SAFe.
• Manage team product backlog and prioritization to keep it visible and clear.
• Ensure the team focuses on delivering value for user and business.
• Approve product increments on sprint reviews and finalize iteration plans.
• Define done and acceptance criteria for deliverables.
• Lead and guide product development teams and ensure delivery aligns with roadmap.
• Coordinate dependencies between teams, external partners, and shared interfaces inside/outside R&D.
• Be accountable for product delivery according to release plan and communicate with stakeholders.
• Adhere to best practices and company procedures across teams.

Kenntnisse

Product management

Agile / SAFe

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Team leadership

Cloud / software systems

Ausbildung

BSc in IT/Engineering

MSc in IT/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

G Suite

Jobbeschreibung

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

As part of the Development Product Management department in the Global R&D organization, you will be part of diverse and talented people that share a passion for building products to help people with any chronic disease and do what they love instead of what their condition requires them to do. We listen to our customers and stakeholders and are the bridge between their needs and the development teams. Our diverse experience allows us to break through the boundaries of physical and digital products and deliver combined solutions.

We love what we do, building products, leading teams towards the vision and keeping them happy on the way there. We have strong knowledge about products, the development processes and are the cross functional glue to deliver the right products and do it right. We bring and embrace diversity of experiences, backgrounds, expertise and cultures. We have all the pieces, device and digital, from PwD to HCPs to Payers that bring end to end perspective to what we do.

We are looking for a Product Owner with expertise in cloud software able to manage product development roadmap, gather business requirements, understand customer needs and transform them into user stories to be built by the development team inside the Agile SAFe framework methodology. This person needs to be able to inspire and lead the team to deliver value for the user and the business, collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the organization and be accountable for the product or feature delivery.

Your Responsibilities

• Understands the product outcome and benefits to customers, to the market, to the business. Also the agile development processes and organization way of working.

• Gather functional requirements and conceptualize features that meet customer needs. Ensure non-functional requirements are taken into consideration as well.

• Leads the product definition in collaboration with the scrum master and development team (UI/UX team, architecture, engineering, business analyst…) including other relevant inputs that may affect the scope of the product (medical affairs, data security, data privacy and legal).

• Owns and facilitates features and user story refinement and planning sessions inside the SAFe framework methodology.

• Manages the team product backlog and prioritization of user stories, ensuring the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all.

• Ensure the team is focused on developing the deliverables that provide the optimum value for the user and the business.

• Approves product increments on sprint reviews, and acceptance of final iteration plan.

• Accountable for the definition of done as well as the acceptance.

• Leads the product development team(s) and guides implementation.

• Responsible for the team vision, product roadmap and release plan, in close collaboration with other relevant teams and the Agile Release Train.

• Coordinates dependencies between teams and other product owners, external partners, and shared service interfaces both inside and outside of R&D.

• Accountable for the delivery of the product and features according to release plan.

• Communication and conflict management directly with stakeholders.

• Adhere to best practices and company procedures and ensure they are followed by teams.

Who You Are

• You hold BSc and MSc degree in IT (Engineering), Computer Science or related

• You built experience in product management and development in B2B or B2B2C industries in a global organization.

• You built 10+ years of experience in the product development lifecycle

• You built 5+ years of experience in product management roles, product roadmap strategies and backlog management for large products

• You built 2+ years of experience in the healthcare sector and managing medical device products

• Deep understanding of key technologies, frameworks and vendors for product development

• Technical background to be able to successfully interact with the development teams, understand trade-offs and exercise independent judgment and decision-making responsibilities

• Deep understanding of the product context and ability to contribute to strategic decisions

• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders to gather business requirements, understand customer needs and transform into features or solutions that meet needs of users

• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate about software features, solutions, ideas to teams and customers

• Experience in the relevant specific topics, either complex cloud-based applications, mobile applications, embedded software

• Demonstrated successful delivery across full product life cycles, from concept to marketable products in iterations, including design transfers to support and launch readiness

• Experience in working with agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and scaled agile frameworks (e.g. SAFe, Spotify). SAFe certification is a plus

• Experience in product management, project management and collaboration tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Miro, G-suite..)

• Ability to work effectively in a big team setup, with team members in different locations, including 3rd parties

• Ability to orchestrate multiple disciplines and stakeholders

• Good communication skills, excellent team collaboration and decision-making ability

• Ability to work in a fast paced and changing environment, being able to adapt quickly and support during the change management process

• Strategic and analytical thinking, creative problem solving skills.

• Can do, positive, and proactive attitude

• Passion for delivering best possible solutions to our users resolving their pain points

• Continuously develop your skills and stay up to date on product management and development state of the art practices

Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Sant Cugat del Vallès. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.