Product Owner

Iris's direct client, a leader in Healthcare services, looking to hire a strong Product Owner for a Long-Term Contractual role

Job title: Product Owner

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: 18 Months

Skills: Product Owner, Clinical Trial Platform

Job Description: Product Manager – Clinical Trial Platform

Role Overview

• The Product Manager for the Clinical Trial Platform is responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for technology that supports end-to-end clinical trial execution.
• This role blends product management discipline with deep understanding of regulated clinical workflows, ensuring the platform delivers measurable value to sponsors, CROs, research sites, and patients.
• The PM drives feature development across study startup, patient identification, eligibility, randomization, visit scheduling, data capture, workflow orchestration, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Product Vision & Strategy

• Define and articulate the product vision for a unified clinical trial platform supporting decentralized, hybrid, and site?based studies.
• Identify unmet needs across patient identification, trial matching, screening, site intake, randomization, scheduling, and data flows.
• Translate market trends, regulatory requirements, and customer insights into strategic product outcomes (efficiency, compliance, adoption, data quality).
• Conduct competitive analysis and monitor industry guidelines to ensure the platform remains compliant and differentiated.

Requirements & Delivery Leadership

• Own the product backlog, EPICs, and feature definitions with detailed acceptance criteria, user flows, and value statements.
• Develop user personas, user stories, workflows, and prototypes to support engineering and design teams.
• Partner with engineering, clinical SMEs, data teams, and QA to ensure delivery meets quality, compliance (including 21 CFR Part 11), and performance expectations.
• Support sprint planning, refinement, and release scoping.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, product management, or related field.
• 3–7 years of product management experience, ideally within clinical trials, healthcare technology, or regulated SaaS platforms.
• Strong understanding of clinical trial workflows (eligibility, screening, randomization, visit scheduling, data capture, protocol adherence).
• Experience translating complex workflows into clear product requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a sponsor, CRO, research site, or clinical technology company.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (GCP, 21 CFR Part 11, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Experience with AI?enabled product capabilities or advanced analytics in clinical research.
• Prior involvement in decentralized or hybrid clinical trial technologies.