Lead Data Product Owner - RWD

Norstella; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Norstella is seeking a Lead Data Product Owner to join the Real‑World Data team. This senior role combines healthcare data expertise with product ownership to ensure data products meet client needs across research, clinical, and commercial use cases.

You will partner with engineering, product, delivery, and client teams to define data standards, oversee data curation, and drive improvements across data pipelines and quality checks, delivering analytic-ready datasets for decision making.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of real-world data sources (claims, EMR/EHR, and lab data) and analytic-ready datasets.
• 8+ years working with healthcare or life sciences data (claims, EMR/EHR, HEOR) in a technical or subject-matter role.
• Proficient SQL and experience with data pipelines and warehouses.
• Ability to independently lead work from assessment through execution and resolution.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define data element specifications and curation logic across data products.
• Evaluate curated outputs against literature and evidence sources.
• Build and maintain deep knowledge of Norstella databases and ETL processes.
• Design data quality checks across ingestion and harmonization.
• Document methodological decisions for internal and external audiences.
• Plan data changes across engineering and client delivery teams.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and clear execution plans.
• Respond to data questions from stakeholders to inform product refinement.

Skills

Real-world data

Healthcare data

SQL proficiency

Data pipelines

Independent leadership

Analytical skills

Documentation

Education

Master’s degree in life sciences or data science

Tools

SQL

ETL

Data warehousing

Job description

Lead Data Product Owner - RWD

Company: Norstella

Location: Remote, United States

Date Posted: Aug 14, 2026

Employment Type: Full Time

Job ID: R-2126

Description

Job Description – Lead Data Product Owner, RWD

About Norstella

Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions platform dedicated to improving patient access to life‑saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full drug development lifecycle — from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.

Norstella unites five market‑leading brands (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, and The Dedham Group) that all have a shared vision of improving patient access to life‑saving therapy. Norstella delivers must‑have answers and insights for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial decision‑making. We help our clients:

• Accelerate the drug development cycle
• Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
• Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
• Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
• Identify and address barriers to patient access
• Leverage the latest AI to turn data into insights for faster and better decision making

Norstella serves almost every pharmaceutical and biotech company in the world, along with regulators like the FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI‑driven workflows, Norstella helps clients make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella’s investments in AI are transforming how data is consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become more efficient, innovative and responsive to patient needs.

About The Position:

We are seeking a Lead Data Product Owner to join Norstella's Real‑World Data (RWD) organization. This senior individual contributor role serves as a healthcare data subject‑matter expert, defines best practices for data use, and partners closely with engineering, product, delivery, and client‑facing teams to ensure the data meets client needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Curation and Ownership

• Definedataelement specifications,including data types, standardvocabularies,and curationlogic acrossdata products
• Evaluatecurated outputs against published literatureand other relevant evidence sources
• BuildandmaintaindeepknowledgeofNorstelladatabases,including curation methods, ETL processes,and product offerings
• Designdata quality checksacrossingestionandharmonizationto strengthen reliability and downstream usability
• Documentmethodological decisions for internal and externalaudiences,including release notes and supporting documentation
• Identifyrecurringdataissues andrecommendprocess improvements

Cross-Functional & Vendor Support

• Plan and execute data changes and enhancements across engineering and client delivery teams
• Drive cross-functional alignment by fostering collaboration, transparency, and clarity around shared goals and execution plans
• Respond to data questions and concerns from internal and external stakeholders to inform product refinement

Required Qualifications

• Deep understanding of real-world data sources, including claims, EMR/EHR, and lab data and how to create analytic ready datasets to answer client needs
• 8+ years working directly with healthcare or life sciences data (e.g., claims, EMR/EHR, lab, data quality, HEOR or subject-matter-expert capacity
• Hands-on experience working with large, complex healthcare datasets
• Proficient SQL skills and experience navigating data pipelines and warehouses
• Proven ability to independently lead work from initial assessment through execution and resolution
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills, with a high standard for accuracy and clarity

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience designing and curating data models
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards, privacy, and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA)
• Experience with data processing and workflows

Our guiding principles for success at Norstella:

• Bold, Passionate, Mission-First We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies, and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients.Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.
• Integrity, Truth, Reality We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.
• Kindness, Empathy, Grace We will empathize with everyone’s situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.
• Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.
• Humility, Gratitude, Learning We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.

Norstella is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behavior and our business requirements. Norstella operates a zero-tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.

Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.