Sr. Specialist, Technical Product Management

Scorpion Therapeutics; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

401(k) retirement plan

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Paid holidays, vacation, and sick/comp

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics seeks a Product Owner to collaborate with Product, Data Science and Engineering to define and develop data products for drug discovery and preclinical research.

You will gather and prioritize requirements from scientific stakeholders, act as the user champion, and translate complex problems into actionable backlog items while steering agile teams to deliver impactful data solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in a life sciences or engineering field.
• 2+ years building tools or data assets for scientific analytics.
• 3+ years working with scientific users to define data product requirements.
• Data analytics/science experience with AWS data services and SQL.
• Strong analytical and communication skills; ability to manage multiple projects independently.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop data products for drug discovery and preclinical research.
• Gather and prioritize product requirements with scientific stakeholders; define/refine the product backlog and user stories.
• Serve as user expert and customer champion; translate problems into actionable requirements.
• Justify improvements to existing products; analyze data to inform strategy.
• Act as Product Owner on Agile teams; accept user stories against acceptance criteria.
• Plan/design testing; compile training content for scientific end-users.

Skills

Data analytics

SQL

AWS

Product ownership

Stakeholder management

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences/Biomed Eng/Chemical Eng/CS

Tools

Pipeline Pilot

RDKit

OpenEye

Job description

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to define and develop data products for drug discovery and preclinical research.


• Gather and prioritize product requirements with scientific stakeholders; define/ refine the product backlog and user stories.


• Serve as user expert and customer champion; write problem statements and facilitate solution design.


• Justify improvements to existing products; analyze data/observations to inform strategy.


• Act as Product Owner on Agile teams; accept user stories against acceptance criteria.


• Plan/design testing; compile training/communication content for scientific end-users.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s in Life Sciences/Biomed Eng/Chemical Eng/CS or related field.


• 2+ years building tools or data assets for scientific/data analytics workflows.


• 3+ years working with scientific users (e.g., chemists) to define data product requirements.


• Data analytics/science experience in scientific context; ERDs/logical data models/source-target mappings.


• Hands-on data management services (e.g., AWS Athena, Glue, S3, Redshift) and strong SQL.


• Ability to translate scientific/business problems into actionable requirements; strong analytical and communication skills; independent and multi-project management.

Preferred

• Advanced degree; pharma drug discovery and pre-clinical development experience.


• Cheminformatics/lab data/workflow knowledge (Pipeline Pilot, RDKit, OpenEye), drug discovery endpoints (potency, selectivity, ADMET, lead optimization), ML platforms, Agile, and cloud-based scientific data platforms.

Benefits

• Eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive (if applicable); comprehensive benefits incl. medical/dental/vision, retirement/401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and sick/compassionate days.