Product Leader - Biologics Discovery Platform

AstraZeneca; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge is seeking a Product Leader for the Biologics Discovery Platform. This role involves developing a product roadmap and strategy, managing stakeholder relationships, and leading the delivery of data and AI capabilities to enhance biologics discovery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management, stakeholder engagement, and a solid understanding of biologics and data-driven decision-making. Join a team dedicated to revolutionizing the healthcare industry.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Excellent benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining product roadmaps.
• Deep understanding of wet-lab and dry-lab strategies.
• Experience with GeneData Biologics or similar systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of biologics discovery.
• Shape demand with R&D and document solutions.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and vendor engagements.
• Operate within Agile Scrum teams for user-centered delivery.

Skills

Product roadmap development

Stakeholder management

Data and AI capability development

Agile and Scrum methodologies

Communication skills

Education

Degree in a relevant field

Tools

GeneData Biologics

LIMS systems

Job description

Overview

At AstraZeneca, we aim to revolutionise antibody discovery by significantly reducing the time to reach a clinical candidate using world-class technology and advanced data & AI capabilities. The Biologics Discovery Platform Product Leader will build a multi-quarter product roadmap and strategy to deliver an excellent science user experience, partnering with R&D product owners and cross-functional teams that work in the earliest stages of Biologics discovery. The role champions biologics data and AI products, shapes demand with R&D and ensures value realization and adoption across the enterprise.

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Leader to drive the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of data and AI capabilities that augment biologics discovery. This role will lead the lifecycle from demand shaping and solution definition through validation and adoption, ensuring alignment with AstraZeneca’s internal governance procedures and partnering closely with stakeholders. The Product Lead will act as a primary liaison between scientific collaborators and technical delivery teams to accelerate science outcomes and deliver a best-in-class user experience.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership & Strategy

• Ensures that R&D demand is understood, well documented, and the basis of relevant, quality solutions.
• Shapes demand with R&D, recommending how platform capabilities can be best applied to advance biologics drug discovery, and owns the multi-quarter roadmap in partnership with R&D stakeholders.
• Prioritises features through a clear, value-led feature list to optimize resource utilization and maintain a consistent flow of delivery without prolonged intervals.
• Ensures a clear line of sight between Platform activities, other key projects, and R&D IT objectives; collaborates with Platform and Capability Leads to shape a multi-year data and AI capability roadmap.
• Champions biologics data and AI products, demonstrating valuable use cases and driving adoption across R&D.

Governance, Validation & Delivery

• Acts as the voice of the customer, proposing technical solutions for complex biologics discovery workflows that deliver value to researchers.
• Aligns delivery practices with internal governance procedures and quality expectations, partnering with Architecture and relevant SMEs to support documentation and readiness for third-party engagement where applicable.
• Ensures development teams comprehend features, their intricacies, and user benefits; acts as an in-house expert and trainer on biologics discovery methods and bioinformatics.

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement

• Manages stakeholder relationships across scientists, analysts, engineers, architects, product managers, business analysts, and other collaborators; collects and prioritises demand with transparency.
• Plays an active role in domain-specific Steering Committee meetings and partners closely with chairs to prioritise demand.
• Owns selected vendor engagements, coordinating with external partners as needed to support capability delivery and platform growth.
• Is a core member of the platform leadership team, focused on smooth operation and sustainable growth of the platform.

Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Operates within Agile Scrum teams, partnering closely with scrum masters and business analysts to ensure a high-quality, validated, and user-centered delivery.
• Drives continuous improvement across ceremonies and workflows, emphasizing clear communication, careful planning, and disciplined execution.

Essential Requirements

• Experience developing and maintaining product roadmaps; adept at prioritising features to optimize delivery flow and value.
• Deep understanding of implementing wet-lab and dry-lab strategies for identification and characterisation of biological therapeutics.
• Experience with GeneData Biologics or similar LIMS systems and in-depth knowledge of building and using data and computational techniques for biologics discovery.
• Working knowledge of wet-lab automation workflows, with effective stakeholder engagement to align scientists, engineers, and vendors on scalable operations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for engaging engineers, testers, architects, product managers, business analysts, scientists, and other stakeholders.
• Experience directly or indirectly managing Business Analysis, Product Owners, or similar roles.
• Experience working in Agile environments within Scrum teams.
• Stakeholder management, including collecting and prioritising demand.
• Ownership of vendor engagement where required.

Why AstraZeneca?

Make a meaningful impact that brings real benefits to society. By applying your knowledge of data, you will help to redefine our industry and ultimately save lives. Work with experts who share a common goal: to accelerate the potential of medicines and the science of tomorrow.

Location: Cambridge UK

Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Next Steps: Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you!

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When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn\'t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Date Posted: 30-Jan-2026

Closing Date: 13-Feb-2026

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