Sr. Director, Product Management - CMC

• *About ValGenesis**

ValGenesis is a leading digital validation platform provider for life sciences companies. ValGenesis suite of products are used by 30 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to achieve digital transformation, total compliance and manufacturing excellence/intelligence across their product lifecycle.

Learn more about working for ValGenesis, the de facto standard for paperless validation in Life Sciences: https://www.valgenesis.com/about **About the Role:**

### **Key Responsibilities**

Portfolio \& Product Strategy Leadership

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi\-year roadmap for ValGenesis' CMC / CPV / QbD / PAT analytics product portfolio.
• Drive product growth by identifying high\-value market problems, defining the “why now,” and recommending prioritized bets.
• Shape platform strategy by defining how advanced analytics capabilities should evolve across suites and workflows, including inputs into the Smart GxP™ launch.

Product Discovery \& Market Insight

• Lead structured discovery across customers, Customer Advisory Boards, regulatory signals, and competitive intelligence.
• Convert market needs into product opportunities with clear user outcomes, feasibility constraints, and business cases.
• Validate direction through prototypes, POCs, and customer feedback, ensuring we build scalable, market\-representative features.

Team Leadership \& Cross\-Functional Influence

• Lead, coach, and develop a small team of Product Managers and Product Owners across CMC and CPV domains.
• Partner with Product Growth, Platform, Engineering, UX, Marketing, and Sales to ensure portfolio coherence and commercial impact.
• Represent ValGenesis externally at ISPE, PDA, AAPS, DIA, and with strategic accounts as the senior product voice for CMC and CPV.

### **What You Bring**

Domain \+ Analytics Depth

Candidates must demonstrate 10\+ years of hands\-on experience across the areas below:

Advanced Analytics / Data Science in Manufacturing

• Real\-world modeling experience in life sciences manufacturing, bioprocessing, or industrial process settings.
• Strong MVDA / chemometrics, predictive / time\-series, and hybrid modeling skills.
• Familiarity with tools such as SIMCA, JMP, MODDE, Design Expert, and Python / R / MATLAB.

CMC / QbD / CPV / PAT / Process Validation (GxP/GMP)

• Deep familiarity with QbD, CPV, PAT, validation, or process monitoring frameworks.
• Practical use of manufacturing data under regulatory constraints (explainability, auditability, traceability).

Product \& Strategic Leadership

• Proven ability to lead product discovery and roadmap strategy tied to workflows, value, and revenue outcomes.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, forming hypotheses, and driving evidence\-based prioritization.
• Strong communication across PM, engineering, customer, and executive contexts.
• Experience influencing cross\-functional teams without direct authority, and coaching PMs to higher standards of product judgment.
• *We’re on a Mission**

In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world’s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS® revolutionized compliance\-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.

Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation ― enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end\-to\-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose\-built systems with world\-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations. **The Team You’ll Join**

Our customers’ success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity’s quality of life, and we honor that mission.

We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done.

We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward.

We’re in it to win it. We’re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won’t settle for anything less than being a market leader.

• *How We Work**

ValGenesis is an equal\-opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best\-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.