Senior Product Manager - Compute Platform

Job description
Site Name: London The Stanley Building
Posted Date: Apr

At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines.

We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK's scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on "data mechanics"
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

Onyx Product Management is at the heart of our mission, ensuring that everything from our infrastructure, to platforms, to end-user facing data assets and environments is designed to maximize our impact on R&D. The Product Management team partners with R&D stakeholders and Onyx leadership to develop a strategic roadmap for all customer-facing aspects of Onyx, including data assets, ontology, Knowledge Graph / semantic search, data / computing / analysis platforms, and data-powered applications.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Manager for our Computing Platforms Products. In this role, you will be responsible for developing the product strategy of our Computing Platform to meet customer needs. You will partner closely with Onyx's organizations, including AI/ML, a diversity of R&D teams utilizing data to accelerate drug discovery (genomics sciences, computational biology, imaging, computational chemistry, to name a few), along with the Onyx portfolio management and engineering function heads to deliver industry-leading solutions that power R&D workloads. You will drive the product roadmap, guide product development initiatives, and ensure the successful launch and adoption of our Compute platform including the migration of existing GSK applications to the platform. Together, you will facilitate joint planning and execution of the product roadmap, ensuring a balance between strategic development and customer-facing deliverables. You will also play a key role in devising, tracking, and publicizing metrics that measure the impact and performance of Onyx Compute Platform Products. You will be responsible for understanding the business areas using Onyx, Platform capabilities, translating customer needs into requirements aligned with standard frameworks such as ontologies and engineering pipelines, and ensure our R&D teams receive the solutions they need to succeed.

In this role you will

• Product Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy for our AI/ML compute platform, aligning with the Onyx's overall goals and objectives.
• Roadmap Development: Define and prioritize features, enhancements, and functionalities for the platform based on user analysis, customer feedback, and business requirements.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with engineering, AI/ML, and portfolio/program teams to ensure successful product development and deployment.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to understand their needs, gather feedback, and incorporate it into product planning and development processes.
• Product Launch: Plan and oversee product launches, ensuring effective communication, documentation, and training to drive product adoption and success.
• Performance Measurement: Define key product metrics, establish monitoring systems, and regularly evaluate and report on the performance and success of the compute platform.
• Product Ambassador: Serve as an ambassador of the compute platform, effectively communicating its value and benefits to GSK Research and Development leadership and identifying potential customers.
• Industry Expertise: Stay up to date with the latest advancements and trends in AI, machine learning, and compute platforms, applying industry knowledge to drive innovation and competitive advantage.

Why you? Qualifications & Skills: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Experience of cloud computing management for scientific computing, data science and/or artificial intelligence model training with a major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc)
• Strong relevant experience in Data Science, Scientific Computing, Machine Learning/AI, Computer Science, Platform Engineering, or related discipline.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong leadership abilities and a self-driven, proactive approach.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Technical Knowledge:
• Experience with and strong understanding of on-prem and cloud computing, and software development practices; familiarity with MLOps and distributed computing is highly desirable.
• Experience with containers and virtual machines including Kubernetes, Slurm or other orchestration tools.
• Knowledge of modern infrastructure including Infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible )
• Familiar with software engineering ways of working and engagement model
• Strong proficiency in utilizing various product management tools, including Jira and Confluence.
• Proven track record of managing developer platforms, tools, and services.
• Strong proficiency in utilizing various product management tools, including Jira and Confluence. Prior product management experience of enterprise AI/ML platform is strongly preferred.
• Experience with bioinformatics/genomics database, biological datasets, Pharma R&D is a plus, but not required.
• Strategic Thinker: Proven track record in developing and executing product strategies that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
• Stakeholder Skills: Demonstrated ability to keep cross-functional teams, set clear objectives, and foster a collaborative and innovative work environment. Can lead without authority.
• Customer Focus: A customer-centric mindset with a deep understanding of customer needs and the ability to translate them into effective product solutions.
• Analytical and Data-Driven: Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather and interpret data, perform market research, and make data-driven decisions.
• Excellent Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively present complex ideas and concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and can adapt quickly to changing priorities and business needs.

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 6th May 2024 (COB) Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition . click apply for full job details