Staff, Product Development Lifecycle

N-Power Medicine; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 192,165 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

N-Power Medicine seeks a Senior Manager, Product Development Lifecycle, Release & Quality to bridge healthcare product management, operations, oncology data and engineering. You’ll translate requirements into builds, ensure quality, and manage end-to-end lifecycle with cross-functional partners.

The role emphasizes cross-functional accountability without formal authority. The hybrid on-site role in the Bay Area prefers in-person collaboration, with travel up to 25% as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience.
• Experience managing the product development lifecycle within a software organization.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and engineering processes; ability to review PRs.
• Hands-on experience designing and analyzing A/B tests and QA plans across applications and data pipelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between oncology product management, clinical operations, analytics, and engineering.
• Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work with clear acceptance criteria.
• Own end-to-end release management, including readiness reviews and communications.
• Manage day-to-day product operations with engineering, including sprint execution and backlog health.
• Review and provide feedback on application content and user experience; discuss implementation trade-offs.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Analytical thinking

A/B testing

Product lifecycle management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheets

Job description

About N-Power Medicine

N-Power Medicine aims to establish a new paradigm in drug development by reinventing the ‘how’ and transforming clinical trials through better integration with clinical practice, ensuring broader participation by physicians and patients. We are building an exceptional multi-disciplinary team with diverse expertise spanning healthcare, engineering, technology and regulatory, and with people who share our core value of Empowering Community through generosity, curiosity and humility. We are working with urgency to bring better therapies to patients faster.

Position Overview

N-Power Medicine is hiring a Senior Manager, Product Development Lifecycle, Release & Quality to join their team reporting to the Senior Director, Program Management. This individual will serve as the critical liaison between healthcare product management, operations, oncology data, and engineering - translating product requirements into engineering delivery, holding engineering accountable to the product roadmap, and ensuring that everything shipped meets the quality bar for a clinical-facing product. This role owns the health of the product development lifecycle: how requirements move into build, how releases are planned and validated, how experimentation (A/B testing) is designed and read out, and how quality is verified before anything reaches physicians, patients, or clinical operations teams. Success depends on the individual’s ability to work cross-functionally and hold engineering, product, and clinical operations partners accountable to committed deliverables without formal authority over them.

*This is a hybrid on-site role, Bay Area is preferred.

Role Objectives and Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between oncology product management, clinical research operations, analytics teams, and engineering - ensuring requirements are clearly understood, scoped, and correctly implemented; build credibility and bridge communication across disciplines
• Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work by writing detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and specifications in partnership with product management
• Help engineering prioritize and stay focused on the committed roadmap, and own end-to-end release management, including readiness reviews, release communications, and low-risk deployments
• Manage day-to-day product operations with engineering, including sprint execution, backlog health, defect triage, and cross-team dependency management
• Design, execute, and analyze A/B tests and QA scenarios across applications and the data pipeline, closing coverage gaps and driving resolution of critical defects
• Provide feedback on application content, functionality, and user experience, staying fluent enough in engineering practice to review pull requests and discuss implementation trade-offs
• Apply Agile and product management methodologies to guide planning and execution; identify risks and mitigation plans, and maintain documentation, status reporting, and quality/release metrics for leadership
• Own end-to-end product lifecycle decisions, including sunsetting or deprecating products and features - conducting impact analysis, upholding contractual and regulatory requirements, and defining backward compatibility, archival, retention, and redundancy plans

Education, Experience, Behavioral Competencies, & Skills

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent work experience, with seniority commensurate with a senior manager-level role with sound judgment operating independently and representing the function to leadership
• Significant experience managing the product development lifecycle within a software organization, including requirements definition, release management, and quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of product management principles and methodologies (roadmapping, prioritization, requirements definition, stakeholder alignment)
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and engineering processes, with the ability to read, review, and comment on pull requests
• Hands‑on experience designing and analyzing A/B tests, and executing QA test plans across applications and data pipelines
• Proven success driving cross-functional initiatives and holding partners accountable without direct authority, with sound independent judgement
• Strong analytical capabilities for risk analysis, metrics interpretation, and data‑informed decision‑making; expert in tools such as Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Smartsheets, and design collaboration tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to prioritize and multitask in a fast‑paced environment; Generous, Curious and Humble
• Seniority and experience commensurate with a senior manager-level role,

Preferred

• Background in healthcare and/or oncology product development
• Understanding of healthcare interoperability and data standards (e.g., HL7v2, FHIR)
• Understanding of applicable healthcare regulations and compliance considerations relevant to clinical software (e.g., HIPAA, GxP/software validation concepts)
• Experience working directly with clinical research operations or oncology data teams

Travel Requirements

• Up to 25% of time required to travel in role (out of 100%), if remote

Pay Information

The expected salary range for this position is [$192,165 – $220,000]. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. N-Power Medicine (NPM) offers equity at hire as well as a discretionary annual bonus which may be available based on Company performance. This position is eligible for company benefits.

More About Us

We are a mission-driven, well-funded, rapidly growing company, eager to attract passionate professionals offering a highly attractive compensation package with a balanced and flexible work environment, competitive industry benefits as well as a 401K plan and other great company “perks.”

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Covid-19 Policy

Covid-19 Policy – The Company is committed to providing and maintaining a safe workplace, and to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees, families, visitors, and the community. While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary. We currently do not have mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements for our employees and contractors, as the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended. However, there are certain N-Power Medicine employees and contractors who, based on their role, will be required to continue to follow our 2021 COVID-19 vaccination and other requirements as mandated by N-Power Medicine’s partners they serve. We reserve the right to modify or amend our corporate policy at any time.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas.