Technical Product Owner – Toxicology Systems

Biopharma Careers; North Carolina; On-site; USD 94,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Technical Product Owner – Toxicology Systems, with multiple country postings (Spring House PA, La Jolla CA, Beerse BE). You will own tech strategy and delivery for toxicology platforms, partnering with scientists and engineers to meet rigorous scientific and regulatory requirements.

The role demands strong software/data engineering depth, experience with data platforms, ML/analytics in life sciences, and executive communication to align

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, Toxicology, or related field required; Master’s or PhD preferred.
• 5+ years of experience supporting scientific research platforms.
• Demonstrated depth in designing, delivering, and sustaining data platforms, analytics products, or machine learning solutions in life sciences or drug discovery.
• Demonstrated track record of leading technical programs or major projects end‑to‑end.
• Scientific literacy in toxicology and compound promiscuity concepts.
• Software and data engineering depth to guide solution design, including Python or R, SQL, REST APIs, containerization, CI/CD, and cloud environments.
• Systems and architecture skills to design scalable, maintainable platforms.
• Product and delivery leadership to define outcomes, roadmaps, and success measures.
• Operational leadership to establish support models and escalation paths.
• Executive-ready communication to explain technical choices and value.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technology strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery for digital products supporting toxicology workflows.
• Translate scientific needs into technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and productization pathways.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership including architecture definition and rapid prototyping.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering, data, quality, and scientific teams.
• Ensure data ingestion, normalization, annotation, and QC; drive integrations with instruments and data providers.
• Define data provenance, metadata standards, and FAIR principles for reproducibility and compliance.
• Act as primary technical liaison for scientists; capture requirements and drive adoption.
• Lead vendor evaluations and coordinate integrations with procurement, legal, cybersecurity, quality, and engineering teams.
• Communicate status, value, trade-offs, and risks to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Scientific literacy

Product leadership

Delivery leadership

Executive communication

Program management

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Bioinformatics/ Toxicology

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Python

R

SQL

REST APIs

Containerization

CI/CD

Cloud environments

RDKit

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions are personal.Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.Learn more at jnj.com

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function

Technical Product Management

Job Category

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations

La Jolla, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Technical Product Owner – Toxicology Systems, located in Spring House, PA (US), La Jolla, CA (US) or Beerse, Belgium.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

• United States (Spring House or La Jolla) - Requisition Number: R-094926
• Belgium (Beerse) - Requisition Number: R-096026

The Technology Product Owner for Toxicology will own the technical delivery and support of toxicology products directly supporting toxicology and compound promiscuity science. This business technology role combines deep domain and technical expertise with program-level coordination: you will define technical strategy, own roadmaps and delivery for platforms and models used by toxicology scientists, and act as the primary technical partner and escalation point for scientific stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technology strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery for digital products supporting toxicology workflows, aligning scientific needs, enterprise technology standards, and available delivery capacity.
• Translate scientific needs into technical requirements, success criteria, and measurable deliverables; ensure clear acceptance criteria and productization pathways.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership when it adds the most value, including architecture definition, rapid prototyping, design reviews, and evaluation of pipelines and models; coordinate delivery across engineering, data, quality, and scientific partner teams.
• Ensure robust data ingestion, normalization, annotation, and QC processes; drive integrations with LIMS, ELN, assay instruments, and third‑party data providers.
• Define and promote fit‑for‑purpose practices for data provenance, metadata standards, FAIR principles, and auditability to support scientific reproducibility and applicable compliance requirements.
• Act as primary technical liaison for toxicology scientists: capture requirements, demo solutions, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
• Lead technical evaluations of vendors and third‑party solutions, provide due diligence and risk assessments, and coordinate integrations with procurement, legal, cybersecurity, quality, and engineering partners.
• Communicate product status, value, trade‑offs, dependencies, and technical risks to leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders; facilitate decisions and elevate issues when appropriate.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, Toxicology, or related field required; Master’s or PhD preferred.
• 5+ years of experience supporting scientific research platforms
• Demonstrated depth in designing, delivering, and sustaining data platforms, analytics products, or machine learning solutions in life sciences, drug discovery, or another complex scientific environment.
• Demonstrated track record of leading technical programs or major projects end‑to‑end in a complex organization.
• Scientific literacy in toxicology and compound promiscuity concepts: assay types, ADME endpoints and off‑target profiling.
• Maintain sufficient software and data engineering depth to guide solution design, evaluate implementation quality, and contribute directly when needed, including experience with Python or R, SQL, REST APIs, containerization, CI/CD practices, and cloud environments.
• Systems and architecture skills: ability to design scalable, maintainable platforms that meet scientists’ needs and regulatory constraints.
• Product and delivery leadership: define product outcomes, shape roadmaps, prioritize investments, establish success measures, manage dependencies and risks, and align cross‑functional partners around delivery decisions.
• Operational leadership: establish support models, service expectations, lifecycle plans, and escalation paths for production solutions; use reliability, adoption, quality, and value measures to guide continuous improvement.
• Executive‑ready communication and influence: explain technical choices, business value, delivery trade‑offs, and risk to scientific, technology, and leadership audiences; build alignment and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Strong problem‑solving mindset and bias for pragmatic, evidence‑driven solutions.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in toxicology, cheminformatics, computational chemistry, or related discipline.
• Hands‑on experience with cheminformatics tooling (e.g., RDKit), molecular representations, fingerprints, SMARTS/substructure filtering, and selectivity/promiscuity scoring approaches.
• Experience with ML libraries and frameworks (scikit‑learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) and MLOps tools (model registries, monitoring).
• Prior experience in regulated or GLP‑relevant environments, or with quality frameworks that apply to scientific data and software.
• Experience performing technical vendor evaluations and managing third‑party scientific data/software integrations.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$94,000.00 - $151,800.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52‑week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits